1 Kernel driver i2c-parport
3 Author: Jean Delvare <khali@linux-fr.org>
5 This is a unified driver for several i2c-over-parallel-port adapters,
6 such as the ones made by Philips, Velleman or ELV. This driver is
7 meant as a replacement for the older, individual drivers:
11 * video/i2c-parport (NOT the same as this one, dedicated to home brew
14 It currently supports the following devices:
16 * home brew teletext adapter
17 * Velleman K8000 adapter
19 * Analog Devices evaluation boards (ADM1025, ADM1030, ADM1031, ADM1032)
20 * Barco LPT->DVI (K5800236) adapter
22 These devices use different pinout configurations, so you have to tell
23 the driver what you have, using the type module parameter. There is no
24 way to autodetect the devices. Support for different pinout configurations
25 can be easily added when needed.
28 Building your own adapter
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31 If you want to build you own i2c-over-parallel-port adapter, here is
32 a sample electronics schema (credits go to Sylvain Munaut):
35 Side ___________________Vdd (+) Side
44 SCL ----------x--------o |-----------x------------------- pin 2
48 SDA ----------x----x---| o---x--------------------------- pin 13
52 ---------o |----------------x-------------- pin 3
65 - This is the exact pinout and electronics used on the Analog Devices
68 - All inverters -o |- must be 74HC05, they must be open collector output.
70 - All resitors are 10k.
71 - Pins 18-25 of the parallel port connected to GND.
72 - Pins 4-9 (D2-D7) could be used as VDD is the driver drives them high.
73 The ADM1032 evaluation board uses D4-D7. Beware that the amount of
74 current you can draw from the parallel port is limited. Also note that
75 all connected lines MUST BE driven at the same state, else you'll short
76 circuit the output buffers! So plugging the I2C adapter after loading
77 the i2c-parport module might be a good safety since data line state
78 prior to init may be unknown.
80 - Obviously you cannot read SCL (so it's not really standard-compliant).
81 Pretty easy to add, just copy the SDA part and use another input pin.
82 That would give (ELV compatible pinout):
86 Side ______________________________Vdd (+) Side
95 SCL ----------x--------x--| o---x------------------------ pin 15
99 | ---o |-------------x-------------- pin 2
104 SDA ---------------x---x--| o--------x------------------- pin 10
108 ---o |------------------x--------- pin 3
121 If possible, you should use the same pinout configuration as existing
122 adapters do, so you won't even have to change the code.
125 Similar (but different) drivers
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128 This driver is NOT the same as the i2c-pport driver found in the i2c
129 package. The i2c-pport driver makes use of modern parallel port features so
130 that you don't need additional electronics. It has other restrictions
131 however, and was not ported to Linux 2.6 (yet).
133 This driver is also NOT the same as the i2c-pcf-epp driver found in the
134 lm_sensors package. The i2c-pcf-epp driver doesn't use the parallel port as
135 an I2C bus directly. Instead, it uses it to control an external I2C bus
136 master. That driver was not ported to Linux 2.6 (yet) either.
139 Legacy documentation for Velleman adapter
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143 Velleman http://www.velleman.be/
144 Velleman K8000 Howto http://howto.htlw16.ac.at/k8000-howto.html
146 The project has lead to new libs for the Velleman K8000 and K8005:
147 LIBK8000 v1.99.1 and LIBK8005 v0.21
148 With these libs, you can control the K8000 interface card and the K8005
149 stepper motor card with the simple commands which are in the original
150 Velleman software, like SetIOchannel, ReadADchannel, SendStepCCWFull and
151 many more, using /dev/velleman.
152 http://home.wanadoo.nl/hihihi/libk8000.htm
153 http://home.wanadoo.nl/hihihi/libk8005.htm
154 http://struyve.mine.nu:8080/index.php?block=k8000
155 http://sourceforge.net/projects/libk8005/