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Board Level Hardware Description
Parallel Port Interface
The PCCchip2 provides an
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*) |
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| Printer Fault (FAULT*) |
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| Printer Busy (BSY) |
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| Printer Select (SELECT) |
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| Printer Paper Error (PE) |
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Control Pins | Printer Strobe (STROBE*) |
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| Input Prime (INP*) |
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Each of the status pins can generate an interrupt to the MPU in any of the following programmable conditions:
❏High level
❏Low level
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