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A watchdog timer is required to prevent system lockup. The timer indicates that more than 10 µS
have elapsed from the start of the EPP cycle to the time WAIT is de-asserted. The current EPP cycle
is aborted when a time-out occurs. The time-out condition is indicated in Status bit 0.
EPP Operation
The EPP operates on a two-phase cycle. First, the host selects the register within the device for
subsequent operations. Second, the host performs a series of read and/or write byte operations to the
selected register. Four operations are supported on the EPP: Address Write, Data Write, Address
Read, and Data Read. All operations on the EPP device are performed synchronously.
EPP Version 1.9 Operation
The EPP read/write operation can be completed under the following conditions:
a. If the nWait is active low, when the read cycle (nWrite inactive high, nDStrb/nAStrb active low) or
write cycle (nWrite active low, nDStrb/nAStrb active low) starts, the read/write cycle proceeds
normally and will be completed when nWait goes inactive high.
b. If nWait is inactive high, the read/write cycle will not start. It must wait until nWait changes to
active low, at which time it will start as described above.
EPP Version 1.7 Operation
The EPP read/write cycle can start without checking whether nWait is active or inactive. Once the
read/write cycle starts, however, it will not terminate until nWait changes from active low to inactive
high.
4.3 Extended Capabilities Parallel (ECP) Port
This port is software and hardware compatible with existing parallel ports, so it may be used as a
standard printer mode if ECP is not required. It provides an automatic high burst-bandwidth channel
that supports DMA for ECP in both the forward (host to peripheral) and reverse (peripheral to host)
directions.
Small FIFOs are used in both forward and reverse directions to improve the maximum bandwidth
requirement. The size of the FIFO is 16 bytes. The ECP port supports an automatic handshake for
the standard parallel port to improve compatibility mode transfer speed.
The ECP port supports run-length-encoded (RLE) decompression (required) in the hardware.
Compression is accomplished by counting identical bytes and transmitting an RLE byte that indicates
how many times the next byte is to be repeated. The hardware support for compression is optional.
For more information about the ECP Protocol, refer to the Extended Capabilities Port Protocol and
ISA Interface Standard.
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Publication Release Date: March 1998
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