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PCII(4)			 BSD Kernel Interfaces Manual		       PCII(4)

NAME
     pcii — National Instruments PCIIA GPIB controller driver

SYNOPSIS
     device pcii

     In /boot/device.hints:
     hint.pcii.0.at="isa"
     hint.pcii.0.port="0x2e1"
     hint.pcii.0.irq="7"
     hint.pcii.0.drq="1"

DESCRIPTION
     The pcii driver provides support for driving an IEEE-488 bus, also called
     IEC-625 (or just "IEC bus"), or HP-IB (Hewlett Packard Instrument Bus),
     or GPIB (General Purpose Instrument Bus).	The driver supports National
     Instruments PCIIA cards (sometimes also refered to as PC2A) and compati‐
     bles.  These cards use a NEC µPD7210 controller IC as the main interface
     between the host computer and the instrument bus.

   IO memory space layout
     The PCIIA cards use a very specific IO memory space allocation layout.
     The address bits A0 through A9 (which have traditionally been the only
     address bits evaluated on IBM PC XT extension cards) are hardwired to
     address 0x2e1.  Bits A10 through A12 are used by the µPD7210 register
     select lines.  This makes the individual 7210 registers being 0x400 bytes
     apart in the ISA bus address space.  Address bits A13 and A14 are com‐
     pared to a DIP switch setting on the card, allowing for up to 4 different
     cards being installed (at base addresses 0x2e1, 0x22e1, 0x42e1, and
     0x62e1, respectively).  A15 has been used to select an optional on-board
     time-of-day clock chip (MM58167A) on the original PCIIA rather than the
     µPD7210 (which is not implemented on later boards and clones).  Finally,
     the IO addresses 0x2f0 ... 0x2f7 are used for a special interrupt
     handling feature (re-enable interrupts so the IRQ can be shared), where
     actually only address 0x2f0 plus the actual IRQ level is required for
     each card.	 Some clones do not appear to require this special IRQ han‐
     dling, and are thus likely to not support the shared IRQ feature.

     Only the base address of the card needs to be specified in the ISA device
     hints; the driver takes care to derive all other IO addresses needed dur‐
     ing the probe phase.

   Supported cards
     The following cards are known to be supported:

	   ·   B&C Microsystems PC488A-0

	   ·   National Instruments GPIB-PCII/PCIIA (in PCIIa mode)

	   ·   Axiom AX5488

SEE ALSO
     gpib(3), gpib(4), device.hints(5)

HISTORY
     The pcii driver was written by Poul-Henning Kamp, and first appeared in
     FreeBSD 5.4.

AUTHORS
     This manual page was written by Jörg Wunsch.

BSD			       January 24, 2010				   BSD
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