On Tuesday 23 September 2008, Jean Delvare wrote: > Still, can't we allocate the transmit and receive buffers in one go? I'd think so ... > I guess transmit and receive can't happen concurrently, so that would be > safe? This is SPI, not I2C, so full duplex transfers work just fine. Have a look at figure 12a in the MAX1110/MAX1111 data sheet to observe continuous sampling using full duplex transfers.