Add an example for bidirectional (3-wire) SPI communication
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Assessment
- Difficulty
- 4/5
- Estimated time
- 3-5 days
- Newbie friendliness
- 42/100
- Issue type
- Feature
- Clarity
- Mostly clear
- Activity status
- Stale
- Tech stack
- c
- Domain
- embedded-iot
Research direction
Start by reading the SSD1677 datasheet and the repository's existing SPI examples to understand the requested 3-wire exchange. Identify how the bidirectional SDA pin is controlled for commands sent by the master versus data returned by the display. Done means a runnable pico-examples example demonstrates communication with an SSD1677-style device.
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Description
For example, communicating with an SSD1677 eink display chip. (Datasheet)
Rather than having separate in/out data pins, they instead have a single SDA bidirectional pin, which depending on the command sent, is written to by either the display or the master. (SDI and SDO in the chart are actually a single pin)

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