Thank you for the analysis martins! After all there seems to be a major bug here! It is confirmed that the SPI MISO sampling behavior clearly differs from the description in the manuals. This makes a vast range of SPI devices unusable at the moment with the ESP32-S3 because many devices don't have t...

Hi try it spi_device_interface_config_t .flag = SPI_DEVICE_NO_DUMMY Thank you for that hint. However, I have tried this and it made no difference. I still see that the ESP32-S3 only reads MISO line on the falling edge of the SPI clock in SPI mode 3. Here is the code i used with the proposed flag: #...

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I have tried moving the high pulse over the falling edge, and suddenly the ESP32-S3 recognizes it, even though in it's SPI-Mode 3: ESP IDF version is 5.1.1.
This seems to be like a major bug in either ESP IDF, or worse, the ESP32-S3 silicon, or not?

I had a look into the Esp32-S3 Reference Manual and according to that MISO Line should be sampled on the rising edge of SCLK: rm_mode3.PNG I wrote a quick program to check this: #include <stdio.h> #include <freertos/FreeRTOS.h> #include <freertos/task.h> #include <driver/spi_master.h> // Define the ...