Programming the parallel port : interfacing the PC for data acquisition and process control

✍ Scribed by Gadre, Dhananjay V

• Publisher: CRC Press;R & D Books
• Year: 1998
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 325
• Edition: 1
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

Why purchase expensive add-on cards or bus interfaces when you can develop effective and economical data acquisition and process controls using C programs? Using the under-employed printer adapter (that is, the parallel port of your PC), you can turn your computer into a powerful tool for developing microprocessor applications. Learn how to build a complete data acquisition system and such varied applications as a CCD camera controller, a photometer interface, and a wave form generator. The book also covers the enhanced parallel port (EPP), the extended capabilities port (ECP), interfacing analog-to-digital converters, and data acquisition under Linux. This extraordinary software approach to interfacing through the parallel port will be especially appealing to programmers involved in control systems design and device development, as well as to those who work with real-time and embedded systems

✦ Table of Contents

Content: Front Cover
Programming the Parallel Port
Copyright Page
Foreword
Acknowledgments
Table of Contents
Chapter 1. Introduction
Chapter 2. How to Build a Computer Interface
Chapter 3. The Parallel Printer Adapter
Chapter 4. Programming and Using the Parallel Adapter
Chapter 5. The Enhanced Parallel and Extended Cabability Ports
Chapter 6. Analog to Digital and Digital to Analog
Chapter 7. Measuring Time and Frequency
Chapter 8. Complete Data Acquisition Systems
Chapter 9. Expanding Port Bits of the Parallel Port
Chapter 10. Using the Parallel Port to Host an EPROM Emulator.

✦ Subjects

Parallel computers -- Programming. Parallel programming (Computer science) C (Computer program language) COMPUTERS -- Computer Literacy. COMPUTERS -- Computer Science. COMPUTERS -- Data Processing. COMPUTERS -- Hardware -- General. COMPUTERS -- Information Technology. COMPUTERS -- Machine Theory. COMPUTERS -- Reference.