Well a few days ago I was having trouble setting up a simple spi interface
Whenever I would try to lower the chip select lines of my devices the 16
would try it and then give up and reset itself.

I finally figured out that the problem was the pin I was trying to use.
was using PINB0 and PINB4 as chip select lines. B4 was the one giving m
trouble so I switched it to B5 and the problem was solved. Now I'
noticing that PINB6 does the same thing.

What is going on here???

Joel wrote:
Maybe you have interrupts enabled (by accident) on those pins, and no
valid handler ?

Single-step; there is no reason why you shouldn't be able to use any
GPIO as your SPI _SS. Also check that your circuit is not wired in
some funky way whereby asserting _SS was shorting out the power
supply.

larwe wrote:

This may be the perfect time to leave the embedded/digital world for a
minute, hang a scope on it and take a look.

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Regards, Joerg

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