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Intellio C218Turbo/PCI User’s Manual
A High Performance 8 Port Async Board for PCI Bus
March. 1999 (3rd Edition)
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Intellio C218Turbo/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 manufacturers. Disc
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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. If you are a software programmer, you may refer to Chapter 4 “Serial Programming Tools”. If you need cable wiring information, please see Chapter “Connection Option (Opt8x) and Cable Wiring”. If you encounter any p
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Table of Contents Introduction............................................................................... 1-1 Overview ............................................................................................................1-1 Features.............................................................................................................1-3 Check List ..........................................................................................................1-3 Installation Guide ....
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Extended UNIX Ioctl() Commands................................ ................................ .........4-6 Utilities ................................ ................................ ................................ ................4-12 RS-485 Programming for Opt8J.......................................................................4-15 Connection Option (Opt8x) and Cable Wiring .............................. 5-1 RS-232 Cable Wiring for Opt8A/B/C/D/S .........................................
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1 1 1 Introduction Overview Intellio - The Intelligent Multiport Serial I/O Solutions The Intellio C218Turbo/PCI is an 8 port high performance intelligent serial interface board designed for 32-bit PCI bus with “Plug and Play” feature. It is suitable for remote access, industrial control and office automation, where a PC system needs to communicate with multiple modems, data acquisition equipment, serial printers and any other serial devices through RS-232/RS-422/RS-485 interfaces. One Intellio
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ASIC Design, Compact Size The Intellio C218Turbo/PCI is also equipped with MOXA customer-designed ASIC chip, which replaces lots of conventional IC and hence reduces the board to half-size, increases the operation performance, and lowers the failure rate of the board. Surge/Isolation Protection To prevent the boards from damage caused by lightning or high potential voltage, TVSS (Transient Voltage Surge Suppressor) and high potential difference protector technologies are introduced in some conne
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Introduction λ PC-based (vending) Machine or Kiosk System Point-of-Sale (POS) System Features The following is a summary of all the outstanding features of Intellio C218Turbo/PCI: ϖ High speed serial communication channel¡— max. 921.6 Kbps per port (Max. speed may be limited by certain connection option such as Opt8J, which supports max. speed 460.8 Kbps only.) ϖ Low host processor overhead¡— on-board RISC processor TMS320 ϖ Sufficient data buffer¡— on-board buffer 512KB ϖ Reliability¡— on-chip
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ϖ Device driver diskettes: λ Windows NT and Windows 95/98 ¡ 1 λ PComm Lite ¡ 1 λ UNIX ¡ 1 ϖ Intellio C218Turbo/PCI User's Manual (This Manual) You need also one of the following connection options: Opt8A/Opt8B/Opt8S ϖ RS-232 connection box with 8 DB25 female/male/female ports, respectively (surge protection for Opt8S). ϖ 1.5 meter DB62 to DB62 cable. Opt8C/Opt8D ϖ RS-232 octopus cable with 8 port male connectors, DB25 for Opt8C and DB9 for Opt8D (1 meter long). Opt8F/Opt8Z ϖ RS-422 connection
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Introduction Installation Guide This section gives a brief summary of how to install the Intellio C218Turbo/PCI under each supported operating system. Installation is simple and involves the following stages: Check PCI BIOS settings Install Intellio C218Turbo/PCI board See Chapter 2 And connection option (cable/box) Install software from diskette See respective O.S. Section And configure driver for board and ports of Chapter 3 Connect devices with cable See Chapter 5 for cable wiring Restart sys
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2 2 2 Hardware Installation The installation of Intellio C218Turbo/PCI consists of hardware installation and software installation. For software installation, please refer to the respective section of operating systems in the next chapter. Hardware installation is stated in this chapter. The no-switch-no-jumper Intellio C218Turbo/PCI board’s hardware configuration for IRQ and memory addresses is automatically assigned by PCI BIOS. Hence, it is a must to have the board plugged first before insta
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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 the free IRQ number manually via PC's BIOS setup for PCI slot, but normally this method is not available for memory. The possible IRQ numbers are 2, 3, 4, 5, 9, 10, 11,
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Hardware Installation R T x x 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 Turbo Intellio C218 /PCI Opt8A/Opt8B/Opt8S Opt8C/Opt8D Hold one end of the DB62 cable and plug it into the DB62 connector on the bracket of the Intellio C218Turbo/PCI. Screw it carefully until it fits. P1 P2 P3 P4 P5 P6 P7 P8 Intellio C218 Turbo/PCI Opt8C/Opt8D Opt8J/Opt8F/Opt8Z Hold one end of the DB62 cable and plug it into the DB62 connector on the bracket of the Intellio C218Turbo/PCI. Carefully screw it until it is tight. Then plug the other en
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R T x x 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 Intellio C218 Turbo/PCI Opt8F/Opt8Z/Opt8J If you can't make the Intellio C218Turbo/PCI work properly after installation, please refer to Chapter “Troubleshooting”. Refer to Chapter “Connection Option (Opt8x) and Cable Wiring” for RS-232/RS- 422/RS-485 cable wiring. And also to Chapter “Serial Programming Tools” for RS- 232/RS-422/RS-485 programming details. Operating Opt8J Opt8J is the RS-422/485 connection box with 8 port female DB25 connectors for MOXA 8 port boards, in
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Hardware Installation 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 to ON position to use RS-485 interface. This means the port can transmit data only when RTS is asserted, and receive data only when RTS is not asserted (half-duplex). Refer to Chapter “Connection Option (Opt8x) an
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3 3 3 Software Installation In this chapter, software driver installation, configuration and driver upgrade/removal procedures are described for various operating systems, including Windows NT, Windows 95/98 and UNIX. Before proceeding with software installation, complete the hardware installation detailed in the previous chapter. However, if you need to develop applications, refer to the next chapter, “Serial Programming Tools”, for more information. Windows NT Windows NT supports up to 256 se
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Installing Driver The following is the procedure for installing the Intellio C218Turbo/PCI driver for the first time under Windows NT 4.0. Make sure the board(s) has(have) already been plugged in the system PCI slot. 1. Please Login NT as Administrator. 2. From [Control Panel], open [Network] icon and then select [Adapters] tab. 3. Click on [Add] button, then [Have Disk...] button for “Select Network Adapter”. 4. Specify the exact path for the driver diskette, A:\WINDOWS.NT. Then click on [OK]
