I have been working around the teardown of an induction cooktop and thought of having a tweak in the system. So far, I have deduced following circuitry out of the cooktop-
There are two devices communicating with each other in 3-wire SPI mode. The master, which controls power management and Induction circuitry, continuously sends commands and data to the slave. The slave, which is TM1628, receives the master commands and data, then accordingly displays the data on the seven segment or responds with the switch pressed, if any.
The above picture explains it better. Now, I thought of replacing TM1628 with an Arduino. So far so good. I gathered all the data that was being sent by the master and the reply sent by the slave.
But, when I started to code, I got stuck in one place. So the data as sent by the master and its response looks like this -
(Master to Slave)**Command1 - Command2 - Data1 - Data2 - ... - Data 14 - Command1 - Command2 - **(Slave to master)**Data1 - Data2 - ... - Data5 - **(And now the repetition)
When the master is sending the data, I have no issues as the data will continuously be read by Arduino and I can take the action accordingly. But when the Arduino (Working as a slave) needs to send continuously 5 streams of data, depending only on the clock input timing from the master, how could I know that one stream has been written and now the next data has to be written to the SPDR register.