Electronic – Is the GPIO speed involved in the baud rate of the USART

The STR91x family of microcontrollers has very flexible peripherals. Unfortunately, this flexibility makes them somewhat complicated to set up. My suggestion is to start by downloading the STR91xFA Firmware Library from ST.com. Once you have the library linked into your project, you need to do something similar to the following:

void InitGPIO7( void )
{
   GPIO_InitTypeDef GPIO_InitStructure;

   /* Enable the GPIO7 clock */
   SCU_APBPeriphClockConfig(__GPIO7, ENABLE);

   /* Initialize the GPIO port */
   GPIO_DeInit(GPIO7);

   /* Configure pin GPIO7.3 */
   GPIO_InitStructure.GPIO_Direction = GPIO_PinOutput;
   GPIO_InitStructure.GPIO_Pin = GPIO_Pin_3;
   GPIO_InitStructure.GPIO_Type = GPIO_Type_PushPull;
   GPIO_InitStructure.GPIO_IPConnected = GPIO_IPConnected_Disable;
   GPIO_InitStructure.GPIO_Alternate = GPIO_OutputAlt1;
   GPIO_Init (GPIO7, &GPIO_InitStructure);
}

Note that this is untested but it should be pretty close.

Motorola and TI mode refer to different configurations of clock polarity (CPOL) and clock phase (CPHA). The clock polarity dictates whether a high or low signal marks a clock, the phase tells the device when to sample the data line.

According to your ARM datasheet, you can set CPOL and CPHA for your SPI controller.

Your flash chip (See chapter 3) supports {CPOL=0, CPHA=0} or {CPOL=1, CPHA=1}.

For more information, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Serial_Peripheral_Interface_Bus#Clock_polarity_and_phase