> 4-bit wide bus that real controllers can use >=20 > Is it easy to bit-bang this on PICs/dsPICs/PIC32s? Assuming that have the resources to process 4-bit parallel data, you should be able to improve on serial SPI speed https://www.sdcard.org/developers/tech/pls/ Click 'I Accept' to get to https://www.sdcard.org/developers/tech/sdcard/pls/simplified_specs/ Part 1, Physical Layer Simplified Specification Version 3.01 describes the Bus Protocols in Section 3.6 Joe --=20 http://www.piclist.com PIC/SX FAQ & list archive View/change your membership options at http://mailman.mit.edu/mailman/listinfo/piclist .