BIT 1 AUTOFD - AUTOFEED
This bit is inverted and output onto the nAUTOFD output. A logic 1 causes the printer to generate a line
feed after each line is printed. A logic 0 means no autofeed.
BIT 2 nINIT - nINITIATE OUTPUT
This bit is output onto the nINIT output without inversion.
BIT 3 SELECTIN
This bit is inverted and output onto the nSLCTIN output. A logic 1 on this bit selects the printer; a logic 0
means the printer is not selected.
BIT 4 ackIntEn - INTERRUPT REQUEST ENABLE
The interrupt request enable bit when set to a high level may be used to enable interrupt requests
from the Parallel Port to the CPU due to a low to high transition on the nACK input. Refer to the description
of the interrupt under Operation, Interrupts.
BIT 5 DIRECTION
If mode=000 or mode=010, this bit has no effect and the direction is always out regardless of the state of
this bit. In all other modes, Direction is valid and a logic 0 means that the printer port is in output mode
(write); a logic 1 means that the printer port is in input mode (read).
BITS 6 and 7 during a read are a low level, and cannot be written.
cFifo (Parallel Port Data FIFO)
ADDRESS OFFSET = 400h
Mode = 010
Bytes written or DMAed from the system to this FIFO are transmitted by a hardware handshake to the
peripheral using the standard parallel port protocol. Transfers to the FIFO are byte aligned. This mode is
only defined for the forward direction.
ecpDFifo (ECP Data FIFO)
ADDRESS OFFSET = 400H
Mode = 011
Bytes written or DMAed from the system to this FIFO, when the direction bit is 0, are transmitted by a
hardware handshake to the peripheral using the ECP parallel port protocol. Transfers to the FIFO are byte
aligned.
Data bytes from the peripheral are read under automatic hardware handshake from ECP into this FIFO
when the direction bit is 1. Reads or DMAs from the FIFO will return bytes of ECP data to the system.
tFifo (Test FIFO Mode)
ADDRESS OFFSET = 400H
Mode = 110
Data bytes may be read, written or DMAed to or from the system to this FIFO in any direction. Data in the
tFIFO will not be transmitted to the to the parallel port lines using a hardware protocol handshake.
However, data in the tFIFO may be displayed on the parallel port data lines.
The tFIFO will not stall when overwritten or underrun. If an attempt is made to write data to a full tFIFO,
the new data is not accepted into the tFIFO. If an attempt is made to read data from an empty tFIFO, the
last data byte is re-read again. The full and empty bits must always keep track of the correct FIFO state.
The tFIFO will transfer data at the maximum ISA rate so that software may generate performance metrics.
The FIFO size and interrupt threshold can be determined by writing bytes to the FIFO and checking the full
and serviceIntr bits.
The writeIntrThreshold can be determined by starting with a full tFIFO, setting the direction bit to 0 and
emptying it a byte at a time until serviceIntr is set. This may generate a spurious interrupt, but will indicate
that the threshold has been reached.
SMSC LPC47B27x
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