Editing Serial Peripheral Interface (section)

=== Intelligent SPI controllers ===
A '''Queued Serial Peripheral Interface''' ('''QSPI'''; different to but has same abbreviation as ''Quad SPI'' described in {{Slink|2=Quad SPI|nopage=y}}) is a type of SPI controller that uses a [[queue (data structure)|data queue]] to transfer data across an SPI bus.<ref>{{Cite web |date=1996 |orig-date=1991 |title=Freescale Semiconductor, Inc. - QSM - Queued Serial Module - Reference Manual |url=https://www.nxp.com/docs/en/reference-manual/QSMRM.pdf |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190824080750/https://www.nxp.com/docs/en/reference-manual/QSMRM.pdf |archive-date=2019-08-24 |website=[[NXP]]}}</ref> It has a [[circular buffer|wrap-around]] mode allowing continuous transfers to and from the queue with only intermittent attention from the CPU. Consequently, the peripherals appear to the CPU as [[virtual memory|memory-mapped]] parallel devices. This feature is useful in applications such as control of an [[analog-to-digital converter|A/D converter]]. Other programmable features in Queued SPI are chip selects and transfer length/delay.

SPI controllers from different vendors support different feature sets; such [[direct memory access]] (DMA) queues are not uncommon, although they may be associated with separate DMA engines rather than the SPI controller itself, such as used by '''Multichannel Buffered Serial Port''' ('''MCBSP''').{{NoteTag|Such as with the MultiChannel Serial Port Interface, or McSPI, used in Texas Instruments OMAP chips. (https://www.ti.com/product/OMAP3530)}} Most SPI master controllers integrate support for up to four slave selects,{{NoteTag|Such as the SPI controller on Atmel AT91 chips like the at91sam9G20, which is much simpler than TI's McSPI.}} although some require slave selects to be managed separately through GPIO lines.

Note that ''Queued SPI'' is different from ''Quad SPI'', and some processors even confusingly allow a single "QSPI" interface to operate in either quad or queued mode!<ref>{{Cite web |date=2023-01-11 |title=Quad-SPI Brings Fast Parallel Data Transmission |url=https://resources.pcb.cadence.com/blog/quad-spi-brings-fast-parallel-data-transmission |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230601194620/https://resources.pcb.cadence.com/blog/quad-spi-brings-fast-parallel-data-transmission |archive-date=2023-06-01 |access-date=2023-06-30 |website=[[Cadence Design Systems]] |language=en-US}}</ref>