Using printer port in LabVIEW to communicate with SPI interface

[Charles_Lu]

I'm trying to using printer port (LPT) in LabVIEW to communicate with an RFIC with standard SPI interface, which need 3-wires including Enable, Data and Clock. The clock freqiency is about 10~15MHz and the data length is 24bits.
I am on LV 7.0 and windows XP. I'm a new one on LabVIEW. So, If someone could point me in the direction of a good tutorial or example that would help too. Thank you.

Charles

[craigherdman]

Charles,

We don't have any specific examples detailing how to implement this but we do have a basic tutorial on how to access the parallel port in LabVIEW:

Using the Parallel Port in LabVIEW

Hope this helps you get started!

Craig H.

[kgbullis]

Hi, I see that your post is from 2005 but I thought I would give it a chance..... I am using a MCP2515 chip from microchip..... it is to be connected to an LPT port so that we can communicate to the spi interface which the MCP2515 uses.....

Did you ever find any information on how to communicate to SPI interface by using the LPT port? ....any information regarding this subject would be very helpful, I am new to both LPT and SPI