Pinout of most common Connectors Serial 9 Pin (PC) Serial 25 Pin (PC) Parallel (PC) Centronics (Printer) PC Gameport

/ MIDI Keyboard 5 Pin (PC) Keyboard 6 Pin (PS/2) VGA SCART

Serial 25 Pin (PC)

(25p D-SUB male at PC (DTE))

Serial 9 Pin (PC)

(25p D-SUB female at cable / modem (DCE)) (9p D-SUB male at PC (DTE)) Pin 1 2 (9p D-SUB female at cable / mouse (DCE)) 3 4 Pin Name 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 CD RXD TXD DTR GND DSR RTS CTS RI Dir Description Carrier Detect Receive Data Transmit Data Data Terminal Ready System Ground Data Set Ready Request to Send Clear to Send Ring Indicator 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 Name SHIELD TXD RXD RTS CTS DSR GND CD n/c n/c n/c n/c n/c n/c n/c n/c n/c n/c n/c DTR n/c RI n/c n/c n/c Ring Indicator Data Terminal Ready Dir Description Shield Ground Transmit Data Receive Data Request to Send Clear to Send Data Set Ready System Ground Carrier Detect

DO NOT connect SHIELD (1) with GND (7) !

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Ground

Centronics (Printer) (25p D-SUB female at PC)

(36p (25p D-SUB male at parallel-cable) Centronics female at printer)

Pin

Name

Dir

Description

Register

Bit in Register (7=MSB, 0=LSB) 0 (inverted) 0 Pin Name STR D0 D1 D2 D3 D4 D5 D6 D7 ACK BUSY PE SEL AUTFD n/c 0V CHASSIS GND +5 V PULL UP GND GND GND GND GND GND GND GND ? Dir Strobe Data Bit 0 Data Bit 1 Data Bit 2 Data Bit 3 Data Bit 4 Data Bit 5 Data Bit 6 Data Bit 7 Acknowledge Busy Paper Empty Select Autofeed Centronics male at printer cable)

(36p

1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25

STR D0 D1 D2 D3 D4 D5 D6 D7 ACK BUSY PE SEL AUTFD ERR INIT SEL IN GND GND GND GND GND GND GND GND

Strobe Data Bit 0 Data Bit 1 Data Bit 2 Data Bit 3 Data Bit 4 Data Bit 5 Data Bit 6 Data Bit 7 Acknowledge Busy Paper Empty Select Autofeed Error Initialize / Reset Select Input Signal Ground Signal Ground Signal Ground Signal Ground Signal Ground Signal Ground Signal Ground Signal

BASE+2 BASE BASE BASE BASE BASE BASE BASE BASE BASE+1 BASE+1 BASE+1 BASE+1 BASE+2 BASE+1 BASE+2 BASE+2

Description

1 1 2 2 3 3 4 4 5 5 6 6 7 7 6 8 7 (inverted) 9 5 10 4 11 1 (inverted) 12 3 13 2 3 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26

+5 V DC (50 mA max) Signal Ground Signal Ground Signal Ground Signal Ground Signal Ground Signal Ground Signal Ground Signal Ground

27 28 29 30 31 32 33 34 35 36

GND GND GND GNDRESET RESET ERROR 0V n/c +5 V SEL IN

Signal Ground Signal Ground Signal Ground Reset Ground Reset Low when offline Signal Ground

Keyboard 5 Pin (PC)

(5p DIN 41524 female at PC)

(5p DIN 41524 male at cable / keyboard) +5 V DC Select In (Taking low or high sets printer on line or off line respectively) Pin 1 2 3 4 5 Name Description Comment CLK/CTS, Open-collector RxD/TxD/RTS, Open-collector Reset on some very old keyboards.

CLOCK Clock DATA n/c GND VCC Data Not connected Ground +5 VDC

PC Gameport / MIDI

(15p D-SUB female at PC)

(15p D-SUB male at cable / joystick)

Keyboard 6 Pin (PS/2)

Pin 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15

Name +5V B1 X1 GND GND Y1 B2 +5V +5V B4 X2 MIDI_TXD Y2 B3 MIDI_RXD

Dir

Description +5 VDC Button 1 Joystick 1 - X Ground Ground Joystick 1 - Y Button 2 +5 VDC +5 VDC Button 4 Joystick 2 - X MIDI Transmit Joystick 2 - Y Button 3 MIDI Receive Pin Name 1 2 3 4 5 6 DATA n/c GND VCC CLK n/c Dir Description Key Data Not connected Gnd Power , +5 VDC Clock Not connected (6p Mini-DIN male at cable / keyboard) (6p Mini-DIN female (PS/2) at PC)

VGA

SCART

(15p HIGH DENSITY D-SUB female at videocard)

(21p SCART female at TV / Video)

(21p SCART male at cable) (15p HIGH DENSITY D-SUB male at cable / monitor)

Pin 1

Name AOR AIR AOL AGND B GND AIL B SWTCH G GND

Description Audio Out Right Audio In Right Audio Out Left + Mono Audio Ground RGB Blue Ground Audio In Left + Mono RGB Blue In Audio/RGB switch / 16:9 RGB Green Ground Data 2: Clockpulse Out (Unavailable ??) RGB Green In Data 1: Data Out (Unavailable ??) RGB Red Ground

Signal Level 0.5 V RMS 0.5 V RMS 0.5 V RMS

Impedanz <1k Ohm >10k Ohm <1k Ohm

Pin 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 RED

Name

Dir

Description Red Video (75 Ohm, 0.7 V p-p) Green Video (75 Ohm, 0.7 V pp) Blue Video (75 Ohm, 0.7 V pp) Monitor ID Bit 2 Ground Red Ground Green Ground Blue Ground Key (No pin) Sync Ground Monitor ID Bit 0 Monitor ID Bit 1 Horizontal Sync (or Composite Sync) Vertical Sync Monitor ID Bit 3

2 3 4

GREEN BLUE ID2 GND RGND GGND BGND KEY SGND ID0 ID1 or SDA HSYNC or CSYNC VSYNC ID3 or SCL

5 6 7 8 9

0.5 V RMS 0.7 V

>10k Ohm 75 Ohm

10 11 12 13 14 15

CLKOUT G DATA R GND

0.7 V

75 Ohm

DATAGND Data Ground R RGB Red In / Chrominance 0.7 V (Chrom.: 0.3 V burst) 75 Ohm

16

BLNK

Blanking Signal Composite Video Ground Blanking Signal Ground Composite Video Out Composite Video In / Luminance

1-3 V = RGB, 0-0.4 V = 75 Ohm Composite

17 18 19 20

VGND BLNKGND VOUT VIN

1V 1V

75 Ohm 75 Ohm

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SHIELD

Ground/Shield (Chassis)