What is Aardvark tool?

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What is Aardvark tool?

The Aardvark I2C/SPI Host Adapter is a fast and powerful I2C bus and SPI bus host adapter through USB. It allows a developer to interface a Windows, Linux, or Mac OS X PC via USB to a downstream embedded system environment and transfer serial messages using the I2C and SPI protocols.

How do you use Aardvark SPI?

Click Aardvark, and choose I2C+SPI. Optionally, click Aardvark, and enable I2C Pulls-Ups and/or Target Power. Configure the Device Settings for I2C-Master using the I2C Control panel….Getting Started Guidelines

  1. Click Configure Aardvark Adapter.
  2. Select the Aardvark Adapter.
  3. Click OK to connect to the adapter.

How do you spell aardvark in English?

a large, nocturnal, burrowing mammal, Orycteropus afer, of central and southern Africa, feeding on ants and termites and having a long, extensile tongue, strong claws, and long ears.

How do you use Aardvark?

Following are the steps it takes for turning on the LED of the Activity board.

  1. Connect the Aardvark adapter to one of the two 10-pin headers on the Activity board.
  2. Launch the Control Center Serial Software and connect to the Aardvark adapter:
  3. Select I2C:
  4. Enable I2C pull-ups:
  5. Enable target power to the Activity cards;

What is the difference between I2C and SPI?

I2C is a two wire protocol and SPI is a four wire protocol. I2C supports clock stretching and SPI does not have clock stretching. I2C is slower than SPI. I2C has extra overhead start and stop bits and SPI does not have any start and stop bits.

What is Aardvark control center?

Summary The Control Center is a graphical application for use with the Aardvark I2C/SPI Host Adapter. It provides access to all I2C , SPI and GPIO functions of the Aardvark adapter in an easy to use graphical interface.

What is Aardvark I2C SPI interface?

1 Overview The Aardvark I2C/SPI Embedded Systems Interface is a multi-functional host adapter. The Control Center software interacts directly with the Aardvark adapter. The Control Center provides basic access to all the functionality of the Aardvark adapter.

How do I use the Aardvark adapter?

The Aardvark adapter can be used with Control Center, Flash Center or the Aardvark API to communicate with any standard I2C/SPI device. Use the Aardvark adapter with Control Center, and follow the instructions below to communicate with a standard I2C/SPI device. All current downloads for the Aardvark adapter can be found on the product page.

What to do if the Aardvark I2C subsystem is holding the bus?

If the Aardvark I2C subsystem had executed a master transaction and is holding the bus due to a previous nostop flag, this function will issue the stop command and free the bus. Please see the Aardvark I2C/SPI Embedded Systems Interface Datasheet for more information. 5.4 SPI Commands spi_config