Digital System for Configuration Detection
- Resource Type
- Conference
- Authors
- Seong-Mo Park; Tae H. Kim
- Source
- The 24th Southeastern Symposium on System Theory and The 3rd Annual Symposium on Communications, Signal Processing Expert Systems, and ASIC VLSI Design System Theory, 1992. Proceedings. SSST/CSA 92. The 24th Southeastern Symposium on and The 3rd Annual Symposium on Communications, Signal Processing Expert Systems, and ASIC VLSI Design. :510-513 1992
- Subject
- Computing and Processing
Digital systems
Pins
Control systems
Power cables
Computer peripherals
Logic
Low voltage
Connectors
Microcomputers
Costs
- Language
- ISSN
- 0094-2898
This paper describes a digital system which detects the configuration of any RS-232C cable that has 25 pin connectors at both ends. The system uses a single chip microcomputer as the system controller for flexibility and cost effectiveness. The system controller sends the configuration information to a PC to be displayed on the CRT screen. A software program which controls the overall operation of the system is also described. The system can be further expanded to a universal configuration detector by adding programmability on the number of pins.