1=================================================================== 2A driver for a selfmade cheap BT8xx based PCI GPIO-card (bt8xxgpio) 3=================================================================== 4 5For advanced documentation, see http://www.bu3sch.de/btgpio.php 6 7A generic digital 24-port PCI GPIO card can be built out of an ordinary 8Brooktree bt848, bt849, bt878 or bt879 based analog TV tuner card. The 9Brooktree chip is used in old analog Hauppauge WinTV PCI cards. You can easily 10find them used for low prices on the net. 11 12The bt8xx chip does have 24 digital GPIO ports. 13These ports are accessible via 24 pins on the SMD chip package. 14 15 16How to physically access the GPIO pins 17====================================== 18 19The are several ways to access these pins. One might unsolder the whole chip 20and put it on a custom PCI board, or one might only unsolder each individual 21GPIO pin and solder that to some tiny wire. As the chip package really is tiny 22there are some advanced soldering skills needed in any case. 23 24The physical pinouts are drawn in the following ASCII art. 25The GPIO pins are marked with G00-G23:: 26 27 G G G G G G G G G G G G G G G G G G 28 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 29 0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 30 | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | 31 --------------------------------------------------------------------------- 32 --| ^ ^ |-- 33 --| pin 86 pin 67 |-- 34 --| |-- 35 --| pin 61 > |-- G18 36 --| |-- G19 37 --| |-- G20 38 --| |-- G21 39 --| |-- G22 40 --| pin 56 > |-- G23 41 --| |-- 42 --| Brooktree 878/879 |-- 43 --| |-- 44 --| |-- 45 --| |-- 46 --| |-- 47 --| |-- 48 --| |-- 49 --| |-- 50 --| |-- 51 --| |-- 52 --| |-- 53 --| |-- 54 --| |-- 55 --| |-- 56 --| O |-- 57 --| |-- 58 --------------------------------------------------------------------------- 59 | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | 60 ^ 61 This is pin 1 62 63