
3-6 SanDisk miniSD Card Product Manual, Rev. 1.1 © 2003 SANDISK CORPORATION
Another SPI common characteristic, which is implemented in the miniSD Card as well, is byte transfers. All data
tokens are multiples of 8-bit bytes and always byte aligned to the CS signal. The SPI standard defines the physical
link only and not the complete data transfer protocol. In SPI Bus mode, the miniSD Card uses a subset of the
miniSD Card protocol and command set.
The miniSD Card identification and addressing algorithms are replaced by the hardware Chip Select (CS) signal. A
card (slave) is selected, for every command, by asserting (active low) the CS signal (see Figure 3-5). The CS signal
must be continuously active for the duration of the SPI transaction (command, response and data). The only
exception is card-programming time. At this time the host can de-assert the CS signal without affecting the
programming process.
The bi-directional CMD and DAT lines are replaced by unidirectional dataIn and dataOut signals. This eliminates
the ability of executing commands while data is being read or written. An exception is the multi read/write
operations. The Stop Transmission command can be sent during data read. In the multi block write operation a Stop
Transmission token is sent as the first byte of the data block.
Figure 3-5. miniSD Card Bus System
3.3.1. Power Protection
Same as SD Card mode.
SPI Bus Master
SPI Card SPI Card
Power Supply
SPI Bus (CLK, DataIn, DataOut)
CS
CS
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