SLLSFN5A June 2023 – February 2024 ISO1228
PRODUCTION DATA
The Addresses and Data of the the device whose SDO connects to the controller (Device 2 in this example) are shifted in and out first, and those of the device whose SDI is connected to the controller (Device 1 in this example) are shifted in and out last.
If SDI is continously held at Low (0), the devices in the daisy chain will treat this as a Read operation from Address 0. Address 0 holds the state on IN8-IN1 (see SPI Register Map), so in this special case of read operation the SDO output will be IN8-IN1 in both Address and Read Phases. For applications that are only interested in the state of the digital inputs, and do not want to access other registers for Read/Write, this option may result in a simpler implementation.