As other people have pointed out, a shift register ignores data until a
clock comes along. But, not knowing these parts, I still don't understand
how the device knows where the end of a byte or word is. A typical SPI
device clocks data through a serial in parallel out shift register, then
captures the data in a parallel latch on the trailing edge of -CS. Without
that, it seems that you'd never know where to latch the data.

Harold

> Agilent optical mouse sensors. They use something that can be thought of
> as
> SPI if you tie the Data In and Data Out lines together (only the sensor
> *or* the microprocessor is speaking at a time and this is ridgedly
> controlled) without a slave select.
>
> You *can* have SPI without a slave select, you can only have one slave.
>
> These changes are why I called it "spi-like".


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