1 # SPDX-FileCopyrightText: 2020 Melissa LeBlanc-Williams for Adafruit Industries
3 # SPDX-License-Identifier: MIT
6 `displayio.parallelbus`
7 ================================================================================
11 **Software and Dependencies:**
14 https://github.com/adafruit/Adafruit_Blinka/releases
16 * Author(s): Melissa LeBlanc-Williams
20 __version__ = "0.0.0-auto.0"
21 __repo__ = "https://github.com/adafruit/Adafruit_Blinka_displayio.git"
25 """Manage updating a display over 8-bit parallel bus in the background while Python code
26 runs. This protocol may be refered to as 8080-I Series Parallel Interface in datasheets.
27 It doesn’t handle display initialization.
30 def __init__(self, i2c_bus, *, device_address, reset=None):
31 # pylint: disable=unnecessary-pass
32 """Create a ParallelBus object associated with the given pins. The
33 bus is inferred from data0 by implying the next 7 additional pins on a given GPIO
36 The parallel bus and pins are then in use by the display until
37 displayio.release_displays() is called even after a reload. (It does this so
38 CircuitPython can use the display after your code is done.) So, the first time you
39 initialize a display bus in code.py you should call
40 :py:func`displayio.release_displays` first, otherwise it will error after the first
46 """Performs a hardware reset via the reset pin. Raises an exception if called when
47 no reset pin is available.
49 raise NotImplementedError("ParallelBus reset has not been implemented yet")
51 def send(self, command, data):
52 """Sends the given command value followed by the full set of data. Display state,
53 such as vertical scroll, set via ``send`` may or may not be reset once the code is
56 raise NotImplementedError("ParallelBus send has not been implemented yet")