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#include "mbed.h"

SPI acc(D11,D12,D13); // setup SPI interface on pins D11--MOSI>>SDA,D12--MISO>>SDO,D13--SCL
DigitalOut cs(D10); // use pin 14 as chip select

Serial pc(USBTX, USBRX); // setup USB interface to host terminal

char buffer[6]; // raw data array type char
signed short data[3]; // acc data is signed 16 bit from -32,768 to +32,767
float x, y, z; // floating point data
int main() {
 cs=1;
 acc.format(8,3); // 8 bit data, Mode 3
 acc.frequency(2000000); // 2MHz clock rate
 cs=0;
 acc.write(0x31); // data format register
 acc.write(0x0B); // format +/-16g, 0.004g/LSB
 cs=1;
 cs=0;
 acc.write(0x2D); // power ctrl register
 acc.write(0x08); // measure mode
 cs=1;
 while (1) {
    wait(0.2);
    cs=0;
    acc.write(0x80|0x40|0x32); // RW bit high, MB bit high, plus address
    for (int i = 0;i<=5;i++) {
        buffer[i]=acc.write(0x00); // read back 6 data bytes
    }
    cs=1;
    data[0] = buffer[1]<<8 | buffer[0]; // combine MSB and LSB
    data[1] = buffer[3]<<8 | buffer[2];
    data[2] = buffer[5]<<8 | buffer[4];
    x=0.004*data[0]; y=0.004*data[1]; z=0.004*data[2]; // convert to floating point
    pc.printf("x = %+1.2fg\t y = %+1.2fg\t z = %+1.2fg\n\r", x, y,z); //print to screen
 }
}