Overview
Interface your PC via ports,busses,controllers * the works.Everything you need to interface your PC with outside devices * including developing customized applications * is at your fingertips in a single hands-on guide. Building your expertise from the ground up,Myke Predko's PC Ph. D: Inside PC Interfacing shows you how to work with memory and I/O space mapping,parallel ports,serial ports (RS-232),expansion busses (ISA,MCA,EISA,and PCI),disk busses (IDE,EIDE and SCSI),the joystick interface and the new USB. This one-of-a-kind guide puts you in control of:
*Device Drivers,including Dynamic Link Libraries (DLLs) and Virtual Device Drivers (VxDs)
*Basic Assembler Programming
*Interrupt Programming
*The BIOS Interface
*MS-DOS command,practical,and event-driven programming
*Windows * Windows Graphical User Interface. . . Win16 vs Win32. . . WIN. INI. . . Windows APIs. . . Windows . DLLs
*And much,much more For each interface,you get full details on its architecture,instruction set,and the applications for which it's best suited,plus experiments (including source code in 8086 assembler,Visual Basic,Visual C++,and LabView),and over 30 projects.