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S Sm ma ar rt ti io o C168H/PCI User’s Manual
Smartio 8 Ports Serial Board for PCI Bus
Jul. 1999 (2nd Edition)
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S Sm ma ar rt ti io o C168H/PCI User’s Manual The software 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 manufactur
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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 Option (Opt8x) and Cable Wi
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Table of Contents Introduction................................................................................1-1 Overview----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------1-1 Features ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------1-2 Check List --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------1-3 Installation Guide -----------
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Technical Reference..................................................................A-1 Specification ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- A-1 PCI ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- A-1 UART 16C550C------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ A-2 DB62 Connector Pinouts -----------------------------------
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1 1 1 1 1 Introduction Overview S Sm ma ar rt ti io o - The Smart Multiport Async Solutions The term S Sm ma ar rt ti io o represents smart multiport serial I/O solution. S Sm ma ar rt ti io o C168H/PCI is designed for 32-bit PCI bus with Plug and Play feature. It offers 8 serial ports for connecting terminals, modems, printers, data acquisition equipment and any other serial devices to the PC and its compatible systems. Being a well- designed and fine-tuned device driver, the Smartio board make
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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 more PCI information, please r
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Introduction v Speed (bps): 50 ~ 921.6K v Connectors: 8¡ DB25/DB9, male or female v Data signals: RS232¡—TxD, RxD, RTS, CTS, DTR, DSR, DCD, GND RS422¡—TxD+(B), TxD-(A), RxD+(B), RxD-(A), GND (Opt8J:RTS+(B), RTS-(A), CTS+(B), CTS-(A)) RS485¡—Data+(B), Data-(A), GND v Ope
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Opt8C/Opt8D v RS-232 octopus cable with 8 port male connectors, DB25 for Opt8C or DB9 for Opt8D (1 meter long). Opt8F/Opt8Z v RS-422 connection box with 8 port female DB25 connectors (isolation protection for Opt8F). v 1.5 meter DB62 to DB62 cable. v 110V or 220V adapter included. Opt8J v RS-422/485 connection box with 8 port fe
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Introduction Installation Guide This section gives a brief summary of how to install the Smartio C168H/PCI under each supported operating system. Installation is simple and involves the following stages: Check PCI BIOS settings Install Smartio C168H/PCI board See Chapter 2 “Hardware and connection option (cable/box) Installation” Install software fr
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2 2 2 2 2 Hardware Installation The installation of the Smartio C168H/PCI 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 C168H/PCI board hardware configuration for IRQ number and I/O addresses is automatically assigned by the PCI BIOS. Hence, the board MUST be plugged first before installin
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Step 7: Connect one of the connection box/cable (also adapter if required) detailed in the next section. Step 8: Power on PC and BIOS will automatically set the IRQ and memory address. Note ! Each board must occupy one unique IRQ and one unique memory address, which are assigned by PCI BIOS automatically. However, you may select
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Hardware Installation Opt8A/Opt8B/Opt8S Hold one end of the DB62 cable and plug it into the DB62 connector on the bracket of the Smartio C168H/PCI. Carefully screw it until it is tight. Then plug the other end of the cable to the RS-232 connection box's DB62 connector. Both ends of the cable are identical. R T x x 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 Smartio C168H/PCI Opt8A/Opt8B/Opt
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Opt8J/Opt8F/Opt8Z Hold one end of the DB62 cable and plug it into the DB62 connector on the bracket of the Smartio C168H/PCI. Carefully screw it until it is tight. Then plug the other end of the cable to the RS-422/RS-485 connection box's DB62 connector. Both ends of the cable are identical. After that, don't forget to apply pow
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Hardware Installation 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 DIP ON RS-422/485 Port Switch of Opt8J 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 DIP ON RS-422 Mode Set the respective switch to OFF position to use RS-422 interface. This means the port is always ready to transmit and receive data simultaneously (full-duplex). RS-485 Mode The Opt8J supports only 2-wire RS-485 communication. Set the respective switch
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3 3 3 3 3 Software Installation 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 Windows NT supports up to 256 ser
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Installing Driver First Time Installing Driver Following is the procedures for installing the Smartio C168H/PCI 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] ic
