scope:

This part of EN 29318 provides a definition of the device generic portion of a series of standards called the Intelligent Peripheral Interface (IPI), a high performance, general-purpose parallel peripheral interface. This part responds to an industry marked need (expressed both by users and manufacturers) to limit the increasing costs in hosts associated with changes in peripherals. The first five clauses of this part contain material that is useful across all classes of devices that the device-generic.