I have also posted this on the forum at anycpu.com
SPI is almost universal these days, for peripherals, LCDs, sensors, memory, uSD cards, GPIO expanders etc, etc. It’s also a really neat way to communicate between 2 systems.
The downside is that it is not implemented on the classic cpus - such as 6502, Z80 etc, creating an additional problem to interface these processors to modern peripherals.
Ideally, the solution would be a simple SPI transceiver that could be connected to a traditional 8-bit bus.
A partial solution was suggested on the 6502.org forum nearly a year ago involving bit-banging SPI, and then a faster hardware proposal making use of the 74HC299 universal shift register.
http://forum.6502.org/viewtopic.php?f=12&t=6066&start=30#p74650
The desire is to create an SPI Master which can connect to the 8-bit bus.
Write a byte to it, with A0 low to send to the peripheral, and then read back from it with A1 high - that would be perfect. Further logic would be needed to set up a group of slave-select signals.
6502.org suggested a solution using the 74HC299, but this would require additional logic to create a gated burst of 8 clock pulses to accompany the MOSI data. After the 8 clocks, the SPI clock returns to an idle state.
Could this be done with a single chip solution?
Perhaps an ATmega328p or some other 5V tolerant microcontroller ?
Possibly just a 74HC299 and a 4-bit counter to gate the clock burst?
Any suggestions appreciated.