By
Dhananjay Gadre, Scientific Officer, Inter-University Center for Astronomy and Astrophysics, Pune, India; he designs instruments, develops hardware, and
writes software for use in astronomy for IUCAA's instrumentation program.
Description
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. ;
