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Peripherals vs. Interfaces
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UART peripheral differs from the UART interface:

         The peripheral is just a byte-oriented data channel used to exchange data between the network and external devices.

         The interface is used to control network devices from an external device using DPA messages.
In the case of the SPI interface, the external device must be an SPI master as the DPA network device is always an SPI slave.