Pinout of Most Common Connectors
Pinout of Most Common Connectors
(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
Parallel (PC)
Ground
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
Signal Ground Signal Ground Signal Ground Reset Ground Reset Low when offline Signal Ground
(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
Pin 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15
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
(21p SCART male at cable) (15p HIGH DENSITY D-SUB male at cable / monitor)
Pin 1
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
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
10 11 12 13 14 15
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
17 18 19 20
1V 1V
75 Ohm 75 Ohm
21
SHIELD
Ground/Shield (Chassis)