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Board Level Hardware Description

Parallel Port Interface

The PCCchip2 provides an 8-bit bidirectional parallel port. This port may be used as a Centronics-compatible parallel printer port or as a general parallel I/O port.

All eight bits of the port must be either inputs or outputs (no individual bit selection).

In addition to the 8 bits of data, there are two control pins and five status pins.

When used as a parallel printer port, these pins function as follows:

Status Pins

Printer Acknowledge (ACK*)

 

 

 

Printer Fault (FAULT*)

 

 

 

Printer Busy (BSY)

 

 

 

Printer Select (SELECT)

 

 

 

Printer Paper Error (PE)

 

 

Control Pins

Printer Strobe (STROBE*)

 

 

 

Input Prime (INP*)

 

 

Each of the status pins can generate an interrupt to the MPU in any of the following programmable conditions:

High level

Low level

High-to-low transition

Low-to-high transition

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Motorola MVME187 manual Parallel Port Interface, Status Pins, Control Pins