SPI Bus Support?

[gerth2]

I didn't quickly find an answer in the 2027 javadocs so poking here: Do SmartIO or the I2C outputs also support SPI functionality?

It's pretty darn low priority for me, and I'd be OK if it didn't exist. 95% of my usecase historically was just the SPI-based Gyroscopes on the RIO - if these are sufficiently supplanted by the onboard one, I think that's a net-better answer.

But, wanted to confirm before scrapping our drawer of various P/N's of SPI gyros we accumulated over the years.

I know this might not be something to shout from the rooftops if so, but something to note at least - any team that's more than a few years old will likely have a number of older gyros sitting around due to KOP or First Choice

[auscompgeek]

My understanding is per wpilibsuite/allwpilib#7678 there's no SPI support on SystemCore.

[bhjelstrom]

There are no plans to add SPI Bus support to the IO pins at the moment. The hope is that any useful SPI Bus devices are essentially black-boxed and converted into USB, CAN Bus, Ethernet, or I2C devices.

[gerth2]

Totally fair. I'll post back here if I come across a legit use case, but seeing zero I think that's the right answer.