Parallel port pin layout

Slides were adopted from a lecture by Lieutenant colonel Eng. Anwar Anwar AlAl-assaf

DB25 parallel port layout

Writing and reading from parallel port

Base address 0x378

Example

Assume you want to read from parallel port The parallel port base address is 0x378 which corresponds to the data register. inb (0x378); But if you want to write to the parallel port data register you will use

outb(0x10,0x378);