3.2 PARALLEL INTERFACE

NOTE: V1.0 does not support the nibble mode. The nibble mode will be supported in V1.1 or later.

(1)

Type:

Centronics

(2)

Mode:

Conforms to IEEE1284 compatible mode and nibble mode

(3)Data Input Method: Parallel 8 bits (Data 1 ~ 8)

(4)

Control Signals:

Compatible mode

Nibble mode

 

 

nStrobe

HostClk

 

 

nAck

PtrClk

 

 

Busy

PtrBusy

 

 

PError

AckDataReq

 

 

Select

Xflag

 

 

nAutoFd

HostBusy

 

 

nInit

nInit

 

 

nFault

nDataAvail

 

 

nSelectIn

IEEE1284 Active

(5)

Data Input Code:

ASCII code

 

 

 

European character set 8 bit code

 

 

Graphics 8 bit code

 

(6)Data Output Code in the Nibble Mode: ASCII code (8 bits)

(7) Receive Buffer:

10K bytes

(8) Send Buffer in the Nibble Mode: 13 bytes

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