SPI

Abbreviation with 2 meanings

SPI
Stands forSerial Peripheral Interface
Meanings2
CategoriesScience & Engineering, Business & Finance

SPI has two meanings. It stands for Serial Peripheral Interface (electronics & electrical) or Schedule performance index (project management).

Meanings of SPI at a glance

#SPI stands forContext
1Serial Peripheral InterfaceScience & Engineering › Electronics & Electrical
2Schedule performance indexBusiness & Finance › Project Management

1. Serial Peripheral Interface

Science & Engineering · Electronics & Electrical Abbreviations

Fast, full-duplex serial bus used on circuit boards to connect microcontrollers to flash memory, displays, sensors and SD cards, using separate clock, data-out and data-in lines plus a chip-select line for each device.

Example: The display connects over SPI at 40 MHz, fast enough for smooth animation.

Motorola introduced SPI in the 1980s; it has no formal standard, so devices vary in clock polarity and phase settings, called SPI modes 0-3. The traditional pin names MOSI and MISO are increasingly replaced by terms such as SDO and SDI or COPI and CIPO.

2. Schedule performance index

Business & Finance · Project Management Abbreviations

Earned value divided by planned value, showing how efficiently a project is progressing against its schedule; an SPI below 1.0 means less work has been completed than planned.

Example: An SPI of 0.77 means we've done about three-quarters of the work we should have by now.

A known flaw is that SPI drifts back to 1.0 as a late project finishes, because all planned value is eventually earned. Walt Lipke's "earned schedule" method, introduced in 2003, measures schedule performance in time units to fix this.

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