Graham Murray wrote:[color=blue]
> Steve <steev_l@yahoo.co.uk> writes:
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>> How necessary is SPI in reality, for a home router?[/color]
>
> Would you even know is a router has SPI unless you look at the part
> numbers of the chips on the board and see if a) They support the
> Serial Peripheral Interface and b) that the appropriate pins are
> wired to other chip(s) which also support SPI. Whether SPI is used
> should be a decision for the hardware designer and be of no interest
> to the user, unless
> the SPI bus is brought to a connector for an add-on board - but even
> then unless the user is going to design his own add-on board this will
> be of no interest to the user.[/color]

SPI is to do with internet packet inspection, is it not???

Gaz