I was trying to program an ATTiny using an Arduino Mega, so I needed to connect the MOSI, MISO, SCK,VCC, and GND pins.
On the most recent version of the Mega data sheet, when seeing COPI on the SPI bus, I immediately assumed this was Child Out Parent In, which I thought sounded weird and confusing since this is previously the MOSI pin, why would they reverse the order when removing casual references to slavery? Oh well…1
An hour later I’m getting avrdude errors and trying to debug, is my clock set right, did I follow the instructions correctly, did I set the correct pins in my Arduino ISP sketch?
Of course I didn’t. Not Child, Controller — oof. This can be added to the traps for young players.
For my future reference:
| Previous Name | New Name | New New Name | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|
SDO/SDI | Used for single role hardware, this makes the same mistake of ambiguity as in the Tx/Rx pins, since in/out depends on your point of reference, so COPI is preferred. | ||
MOSI/MISO | COPI/CIPO 2 | PICO/POCI | “Controller Out Peripheral In” |
SS | CS | Chip select |