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S Sm ma ar rt ti io o C104H/PCI Series User’s Manual
Smartio 4 Ports Serial Board for PCI Bus
Jun. 1999 (2nd Edition)
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S Sm ma ar rt ti io o C104H/PCI Series User’s Manual The product described in this manual is furnished under a license agreement and may be used only in accordance with the terms of the agreements. Copyright Notice Copyright 1999 Moxa Technologies Co., Ltd. All rights reserved. Reproduction in any form without permission is prohibited. Trademarks MOXA is a registered trademark of Moxa Technologies Co., Ltd. All other trademarks or registered marks in this manual belong to their respective manu
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About This Manual This manual is composed of six Chapters and one Appendix. This manual is written for installer, system administrator and software programmer. If you are a first-time installer and system administrator, we recommend you to go through the whole manual except Chapter 4 “Serial Programming Tools”. If you are a software programmer, you may refer to Chapter 4 “Serial Programming Tools”. If you need cable wiring information, please see Chapter 5 “Connection Cable and Cable Wiring”. If
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Table of Contents Introduction................................................................................1-1 Overview----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------1-1 Features ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------1-3 Check List --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------1-4 Installation Guide -----------
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UART 16C550C------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ A-2 DB37 Connector Pinouts ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ A-3
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1 1 1 I In nt tr ro od du uc ct tiio on n Overview S Sm ma ar rt ti io o - The Smart Multiport Async Solution The term S Sm ma ar rt ti io o represents smart multiport serial I/O solution. The S Sm ma ar rt ti io o C104H/PCI Series boards, including C104H/PCI and C104HS/PCI, are designed for 32-bit PCI bus with Plug and Play feature. They offer 4 RS-232 serial ports for connecting terminals, modems, printers, scanners, cash registers, bar code readers, keypads, numeric displays, electrical weigh
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l PC-based (vending) Machine or Kiosk System l Point-of-Sale (POS) System PCI Solution The board complies with PCI Spec. 2.1 needing neither switch nor jumper. The hardware configuration for the IRQ and Memory addresses is automatically assigned by the PCI BIOS. Hence, the board MUST be plugged first before installing the software driver. For
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Introduction Features The Smartio C104H/PCI Series consists of members as follows: C104H/PCI: 4 RS-232 ports, high speed 16C550C or compatible UART 4 RS-232 ports, surge protection, 16C550C or compatible C104HS/PCI: UART v Support PCI, Plug and play, no switch, no jumper v Reliability¡—High speed 16C550C Communication Controllers with on-chip hardware flow contro
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Check List Upon unpacking the Smartio C104H/PCI Series, you should find the following items in the package: v Smartio C104H/PCI Series 4 port serial board v Device driver diskettes: l Windows NT and Windows 95/98 ¡ 1 l P PC Co om mm m Lite¡ ¡ 1 v Smartio C104H/PCI Series User’s Manual (This manual) v Connection cable Opt4C:DB37 to DB25¡ 4 or
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Introduction Installation Guide This section gives a brief summary of how to install the Smartio C104H/PCI Series under each supported operating system. The installation is simple and involves the following stages: Check the PCI BIOS settings Install the Smartio C104H/PCI Series board See Chapter 2 “Hardware and the connection cable Installation” Install the soft
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2 2 2 H Ha ar rd dw wa ar re e I In ns st ta alllla at tiio on n The installation of the Smartio C104H/PCI Series consists of hardware and software installation. The respective sections of the operating systems in the next chapter will discuss more about the software installation. The hardware installation is described in this chapter. The no-switch-no-jumper Smartio C104H/PCI Series board hardware configuration for IRQ number and I/O addresses is automatically assigned by the PCI BIOS. Hence, t
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Connecting the Fan-out Cable Step 7: Connect the connection cable. P1 P2 Smartio C104H/PCI Series P3 P4 Step 8: Power on the PC and the BIOS will automatically set the IRQ and I/O address. Note! Each board must occupy one unique IRQ and four 8-byte I/O addresses, which are assigned automatically by the PCI BIOS. However, you can select a free
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3 3 3 S So of ft tw wa ar re e I In ns st ta alllla at tiio on n In this chapter, the software driver installation, configuration and driver update/removal procedures are described for various operating systems, including Windows NT, and Windows 95/98. Before proceeding with the software installation, complete the hardware installation first. If it is required to develop your own applications, please refer to the next chapter, “Serial Programming Tools” for serial programming issues. Windows NT
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Installing Driver First Time Installing Driver Following is the procedures for installing the Smartio C104H/PCI Series driver for the first time under Windows NT 3.51/4.0. Make sure the board (s) has (have) already been plugged in the system PCI slot (s). 1. Please log in NT as Administrator. 2. Open [Control Panel], click [Network] icon and s
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Software Installation 5. Select MOXA Smartio/Industio Family multiport board in Select OEM Option dialog box, and click [OK] to start driver installation. Moxa Smartio/Industio Configuration Panel dialog box appears. 6. Click [Add] button to open Property dialog box to change port setting and advanced FIFO configuration done automatically by the system. 7. Select the newly pl
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10. Select a COM number for the specific port from Port Number pull-down list. Note! Step 11 is optional, if you want to assign COM numbers to ports manually. 11. Check Auto Enumerating COM Number check-box then the subsequent ports are mapped to continuous COM numbers. For example, if COM 3 is assigned to Port 1, then COM 4 will be automatica
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Software Installation 13. Check Set the change to all ports check-box then if desire to apply Rx FIFO Trigger just defined to all ports. 14. Select a Tx FIFO Size from Tx FIFO Size pull-down list. Tx FIFO sizes from 1 to 16 bytes are available, and the default value is 16 bytes. 15. Check Set the change to all ports check-box then the if desire to apply Tx FIFO Size just defi
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18. Click [OK] button in MOXA Smartio/Industio Configuration Panel to return to Network dialog box. 19. Click [OK] button in to exit Network dialog box. 20. Restart the PC. Note! The driver configuration will NOT take effect until you restart the PC. Note! Double check if all the Smartio C104H/PCI Series components – the control board and the
