ABSTRACT

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

chapter 1|6 pages

Introduction

chapter 2|18 pages

How to Build a Computer Interface

chapter 3|14 pages

The Parallel Printer Adapter

chapter 4|20 pages

Programming and Using the Parallel Adapter

chapter 6|28 pages

Analog to Digital and Digital to Analog

chapter 7|16 pages

Measuring Time and Frequency

chapter 8|34 pages

Complete Data Acquisition Systems

chapter 9|22 pages

Expanding Port Bits of the Parallel Port

chapter 11|20 pages

The Parallel Port as a Host Interface Port

chapter 12|26 pages

Hosting a Device Programmer

chapter 14|28 pages

Data Acquisition Under Linux