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System Information Display (SID)

System Information Display (SID). Brad Mouring CIS 4914 - Senior Project Tuesday, 2/21/05. Summary of Project. Motivation A method to easily obtain important information from a personal computer Problem Display purchased at discount lacked proper driving hardware and software Solution

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System Information Display (SID)

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  1. System Information Display (SID) Brad Mouring CIS 4914 - Senior Project Tuesday, 2/21/05

  2. Summary of Project • Motivation • A method to easily obtain important information from a personal computer • Problem • Display purchased at discount lacked proper driving hardware and software • Solution • Create the necessary hardware and software to achieve desired goal

  3. Project Plan

  4. Sources • Sweet, Michael. Serial Programming Guide for POSIX Operating Systems. 2005. 1 Feb. 2006<http://www.easysw.com/~mike/serial/serial.html> • Noritake Inc. Noritake Vacuum Fluorescent Display Module Specification. ISE Electronics Corp. #DS-161-0000-01 • Kernighan, Brian W. and Dennis M. Ritchie. The C Programming Language. Englewood Cliffs, N.J.: Prentice Hall, 1988.

  5. Problems Encountered • The VFD accepts TTL-level serial communication only. • Build a RS232 to TTL adapter • Permission to serial ports • Change permission, create installer to be run with administrator privileges to automate process

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