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+# SPDX-FileCopyrightText: 2020 Melissa LeBlanc-Williams for Adafruit Industries
+#
+# SPDX-License-Identifier: MIT
+
+"""
+`paralleldisplay`
+================================================================================
+
+paralleldisplay for Blinka
+
+**Software and Dependencies:**
+
+* Adafruit Blinka:
+ https://github.com/adafruit/Adafruit_Blinka/releases
+
+* Author(s): Melissa LeBlanc-Williams
+
+"""
+
+import _typing
+import microcontroller
+
+__version__ = "0.0.0-auto.0"
+__repo__ = "https://github.com/adafruit/Adafruit_Blinka_displayio.git"
+
+
+class ParallelBus:
+ """Manage updating a display over 8-bit parallel bus in the background while Python code
+ runs. This protocol may be refered to as 8080-I Series Parallel Interface in datasheets.
+ It doesn't handle display initialization.
+ """
+
+ def __init__(
+ self,
+ *,
+ data0: microcontroller.Pin,
+ command: microcontroller.Pin,
+ chip_select: microcontroller.Pin,
+ write: microcontroller.Pin,
+ read: microcontroller.Pin,
+ reset: microcontroller.Pin,
+ frequency: int = 30000000,
+ ):
+ # pylint: disable=unnecessary-pass
+ """Create a ParallelBus object associated with the given pins. The
+ bus is inferred from data0 by implying the next 7 additional pins on a given GPIO
+ port.
+
+ The parallel bus and pins are then in use by the display until
+ displayio.release_displays() is called even after a reload. (It does this so
+ CircuitPython can use the display after your code is done.) So, the first time you
+ initialize a display bus in code.py you should call
+ :py:func`displayio.release_displays` first, otherwise it will error after the first
+ code.py run.
+ """
+ pass
+
+ def reset(self) -> None:
+ """Performs a hardware reset via the reset pin. Raises an exception if called when
+ no reset pin is available.
+ """
+ raise NotImplementedError("ParallelBus reset has not been implemented yet")
+
+ def send(self, command: int, data: _typing.ReadableBuffer) -> None:
+ """Sends the given command value followed by the full set of data. Display state,
+ such as vertical scroll, set via ``send`` may or may not be reset once the code is
+ done.
+ """
+ raise NotImplementedError("ParallelBus send has not been implemented yet")