It is a great shame that back in the days when a typical home computer had easy low-level hardware access that is absent from today’s machines, the cost of taking advantage of it was so high.

Many designers require that their PCs act as complete control systems without any internal hardware. For this function, users need at least one channel of analog data acquisition to monitor the ...

This Design Idea shows how you can use Linear Technology's LTC6903 programmable oscillator as a clock source for direct-digital synthesis, data conversion, switched-capacitor filtering, clock, and ...

[Neil] is driving this Siemens A60 LCD using a parallel port on his Linux box. He likes this module because it has an integrated LED back-light, controller IC, and the pads are large enough for a ...

The circuit shown in Figure 1 steals energy from a PC's parallel port or from any limited-energy source. To use the available energy, such power-conversion applications usually require very high ...

This week, I will discuss advanced features of the BIOS. These include proper configuration of built-in peripherals, as well as power-management issues to consider. Let's dig in. This section of the ...

The oscilloscope utilizes the SPP or EPP parallel port LPT1 for reading the data from ADC0820 (TLC0820). The program will automatically switch the LPT1 in byte mode or normal mode if the LPT is an ECP ...

Does anyone know of such a utility?<BR><BR>Basically, I have a dumb device that spits ASCII text out onto a parallel port cable (process control alarms if you really ...