Re: Interface Buses

Russell Shaw <[email protected]> Mon, 20 Oct 2003 10:26:32 +1000
Newsgroups gmane.comp.hardware.avr.general
Message-ID <[email protected]>
D I Freeman wrote:
> 
> Hi,
> 
> Wondering if I could pick the brains of the list.
> 
> I have an AVR chip, and I want to interface a number of sensors to it, using
> some sort of bus, now the SPI bus springs to mind, but I am not sure if its
> possible to have n number of devices connected to it, and to read the data from
> each one?
> 
> Can anyone advise on how best to do this? I would prefer to use standard buses
> where possible.

As long as your peripheral looks like a shift register with data output,
you can string dozens in series and address each one individually.