VITALAB MICRO & MICROLAB 200 THEORY OF OPERATION
VITAL SCIENTIFIC SERVICE MANUAL
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parallel-to-serial converter/controller. The CTC is a four
channel counter/timer and can be fully programmed by the Z80
CPU. Its main functions are; event counter, interrupt and
interval timing, and general clock
generator. The communications between the Z80 CPU is mainly
based on interrupt control.
2.2.5 Centronics interface.
The Centronics printer interface is built-up mainly around the
second PIO inside the KIO, as is from a standard parallel
Centronics type.
Typical for such a type of interface is that the 8-bits
parallel data character is accepted by the printer when a
signal on the 'Strobe' input occurs.
The printer will react to such action by setting the 'busy'
status active (high) indicating that it is momentarily
examining the incoming data character. 'Busy' will also be
active during the physical printing action and during paperfeed
operations.
Just prior to removal of the 'busy' signal, another signal,
which is also typical for the 'Centronics' interface, known as
'Acknowledge/' (Ack/) is asserted by the printer. This signal
coming, from pin 10 of the Centronics connector is connected to
the PIO strobe (pin 44) of the KIO. The PIO will then generate
a interrupt to the processor.
There is a special strobe line coming from IC34 also a PIO, and
when the level on this strobe line changes from a 'high' into a
'low', the ASCII data character contained on datalines PB0 to
PB7 will be clocked into the printer.
2.2.6 RS232C serial interface.
The RS232C serial interface port provides the serial data for
external data handling equipment. The interface is controlled
by the SIO, integrated in the KIO.
The SIO is programmed by the microprocessor, and formats and
serializes the 8-bit data format based upon its current
operation mode.
Note that although the hardware has been designed to perform
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