D7
D6
D5
D4
D3
D2
D1
D0
NOTE
data
PD7
PD6
PD5
PD4
PD3
PD2
PD1
PD0
ecpAFifo Addr/RLE
Address or RLE field
2
1
1
2
2
2
dsr
nBusy
0
nAck
0
PError
Select
nFault
0
0
0
SelectIn
autofd
dcr
Direction ackIntEn
nInit
strobe
cFifo
ecpDFifo
tFifo
Parallel Port Data FIFO
ECP Data FIFO
Test FIFO
cnfgA
cnfgB
ecr
0
0
0
1
0
0
0
0
compress intrValue
MODE
Parallel Port IRQ
Parallel Port DMA
empty
nErrIntrEn dmaEn serviceIntr full
Note 1: These registers are available in all modes.
Note 2: All FIFOs use one common 16 byte FIFO.
Note 3: The ECP Parallel Port Config Reg B reflects the IRQ and DRQ selected by the Configuration
Registers.
it provides an automatic high burst-bandwidth
channel that supports DMA for ECP in both the
forward and reverse directions.
ISA IMPLEMENTATION STANDARD
This specification describes the standard ISA
interface to the Extended Capabilities Port
(ECP). All ISA devices supporting ECP must
meet the requirements contained in this section
or the port will not be supported by Microsoft.
For a description of the ECP Protocol, please
refer to the IEEE 1284 Extended Capabilities
Port Protocol and ISA Interface Standard, Rev.
1.14, July 14, 1993. This document is available
from Microsoft.
Small FIFOs are employed in both forward and
reverse directions to smooth data flow and
improve the maximum bandwidth requirement.
The size of the FIFO is 16 bytes deep. The port
supports an automatic handshake for the
standard parallel port to improve compatibility
mode transfer speed.
The port also supports run length encoded
(RLE) decompression (required) in hardware.
Compression is accomplished by counting
identical bytes and transmitting an RLE byte
that indicates how many times the next byte is
to be repeated. Decompression simply
intercepts the RLE byte and repeats the
following byte the specified number of times.
Hardware support for compression is optional.
Description
The port is software and hardware compatible
with existing parallel ports so that it may be
used as a standard LPT port if ECP is not
required. The port is designed to be simple and
requires a small number of gates to implement.
It does not do any "protocol" negotiation, rather
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