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The keyboard controller also handles PS/2 mouse input if a PS/2 mouse port is present. Today the keyboard controller is either a unit inside a Super I/O device or is missing, having its keyboard and mouse functions handled by a USB controller and its role in controlling the A20 line becoming integrated into the chipset's northbridge and then ...
An embedded controller can have the following tasks: Receiving and processing signals from the keyboard [1] and the touchpad (including touchpad disable) Other buttons and switches (e.g., power button, laptop lid switch (received from hall sensor)) [2] Controlling access to the A20 line [3]
In computing, DirectInput is a legacy [1] Microsoft API for collecting input from a computer user, via input devices such as the mouse, keyboard, or a gamepad.It also provides a system for action mapping, which allows the user to assign specific actions within a game to the buttons and axes of the input devices.
Super I/O (sometimes Multi-IO) [1] is a class of I/O controller integrated circuits that began to be used on personal computer motherboards in the late 1980s, originally as add-in cards, later embedded on the motherboards. A super I/O chip combines interfaces for a variety of low-bandwidth devices.
Examples of computer connector sockets on various laptops Ports on the back of the Apple Mac Mini (2005). A computer port is a hardware piece on a computer where an electrical connector can be plugged to link the device to external devices, such as another computer, a peripheral device or network equipment. [1]
The Soft Input Panel (also called S.I.P.) is a special on-screen input method for devices which do not have standard hardware keyboards.SIP is commonly used in Microsoft Pocket PC and Tablet PC devices, where there is no room for a hardware keyboard.
Keyboard controller may refer to: Keyboard controller (computing), a computer hardware which connects a keyboard to the main board; In music, a MIDI keyboard with ...
The bidirectional IBM AT and PS/2 keyboard interface is a development of the unidirectional IBM PC keyboard interface, using the same signal lines but adding capability to send data back to the keyboard from the computer; this explains the asymmetry. [3] The interface has two main signal lines, Data and Clock.