Comment on SPI: The serial peripheral interface [video]parentComments−cozzyd4yi2c-tools gets you pretty far if you have a userland i2c bus in linuxand spidev is not TOO hard to use if you don't need transactions.−jhallenworld4ySome FTDI chips can do I2C (also SPI), will i2c-tools work for it?Otherwise the Arduinos with USB are a convenient way to connect I2C to a PC..−cozzyd4yI've mostly used it with a beagleboneblack. Not sure if ftdi chips work. SPI seems hard to do with USB due to latency.
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i2c-tools gets you pretty far if you have a userland i2c bus in linux
and spidev is not TOO hard to use if you don't need transactions.
Some FTDI chips can do I2C (also SPI), will i2c-tools work for it?
Otherwise the Arduinos with USB are a convenient way to connect I2C to a PC..
I've mostly used it with a beagleboneblack. Not sure if ftdi chips work. SPI seems hard to do with USB due to latency.