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Smartio CP-168U User’s Manual
Smartio 8-Port RS-232 Serial Board for PCI Bus
First Edition, February 2003
Moxa Technologies Co., Ltd.
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Smartio CP-168U 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 that agreement. Copyright Notice Copyright 2003 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.
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MOXA Internet Services Customer satisfaction is our number one concern. To ensure that customers receive the full benefit of our products, Moxa Internet Services has been set up to provide technical support, driver updates, product information, and user’s manual updates. The following services are provided: E-mail for technical support address support@moxa.com.tw World Wide Web (WWW) site for product information address http://www.moxa.com or http://www.moxa.com.tw
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Table of Contents 1 Introduction..........................................................................1-1 Overview------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------1-1 Features ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------1-3 Package Checklist -----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------1-4 Installation Guide --------------------------
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1 1 Introduction Overview Smartio—The Smart Multiport Async Solution The term Smartio stands for smart multiport serial I/O solution. The Smartio CP-168U board is designed for the 32-bit PCI bus with Plug and Play feature. This board offers 8 RS- 232 serial ports for connecting terminals, modems, printers, scanners, cash registers, bar code readers, keypads, numeric displays, electrical scales, data acquisition equipment, and many other serial devices for the PC and compatible systems. W
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PCI Solution The CP-168U board complies with PCI Spec. 2.1, and does not use either switches or jumpers. The hardware configuration for the IRQ and memory addresses is automatically assigned by the PCI BIOS. Hence, the board MUST be plugged in before installing the driver software. For more PCI information, refer to the Technical Reference Appendix. Surge Protection To prevent the board from being damaged by lightning or high potential voltage, embedded 16 KV ESD protection is used i
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Introduction Features The Smartio CP-168U board has 8 RS-232 ports, embedded ESD 16 KV surge protection, and uses a Moxa or 16C550C compatible UART, and has the following important features: Supports universal PCI, plug and play (no switches or jumpers) Fits both 3.3V and 5V connector key Reliability—high speed Moxa UART Communication Controllers with on-chip hardware flow control to guarantee no data loss Compact half-size design Embedded ESD 16V surge protection Easy install
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Package Checklist You should find the following items in the Smartio CP-168U board package: Smartio CP-168U 8-port serial board Software CD that contains drivers for Windows NT/2000/XP, Windows 95/98, and Linux. Smartio CP-168U User’s Manual (this manual) Smartio CP-168U User’s Manual 1-4
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Introduction Installation Guide This section gives a brief summary of how to install the Smartio CP-168U board under each supported operating system. The installation is simple and involves the following stages: Check the PCI BIOS settings. See Chapter 2, “Hardware Install the Smartio CP-168U board. Installation.” ↓ Install the software from the software See the respective OS section in CD. Configure the driver for the board Chapter 3, “Software Installation.” and ports. ↓
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2 2 Hardware Installation The installation of the Smartio CP-168U board involves both hardware and software. Software installation is discussed in the next chapter. In this chapter, we discuss hardware installation. The no-switch-no-jumper Smartio CP-168U board’s IRQ number and I/O addresses are assigned automatically by the PCI BIOS. For this reason, the board MUST be plugged in before installing the driver software. Installing the Smartio CP-168U board Step 1: Power off the PC. Warn
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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 IRQ number manually via the PC’s BIOS setup for the PCI slot, but normally this method is not available for the I/O address. The possible IRQ numbers are 2, 3, 4, 5, 7, 10, 11, 12, and 15. The possible I/O addresses are from 0x0000 to 0xFFFF. Step 8: Proceed with the software installation, as described in the next chapter, “Softw
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3 3 Software Installation In this chapter, the driver software installation, configuration, and driver update/removal procedures are described for various operating systems, including Windows NT, Windows 95/98, and Windows 2000/XP. Before proceeding with the software installation, be sure to first complete the hardware installation discussed in the previous chapter. Refer to the next chapter, “Serial Programming Tools,” for information on developing your own serial programming applicatio
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Installing the Driver First Time Driver Installation The following procedure shows how to install the Smartio CP-168U driver for the first time. First make sure the board or boards are already plugged into the system’s PCI slot(s). 1. Log into NT as Administrator. 2. Copy the folder Windows.nt located under Software\WinNT\V5.7 on the software CD, to your computer’s hard disk (under the C: drive, for example). 3. Open the [Control Panel], click the [Network] icon, and then select the
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Software Installation 7. The Moxa Smartio/Industio Configuration Panel dialog box appears. Click the [Add] button to open the Property dialog box to change port settings and advanced FIFO configuration done automatically by the system. 8. Select the just installed CP-168U board from the Board Type pull-down list, click on a specific port item, and then click on the [Port Setting] button to open the Port X window. Smartio CP-168U User’s Manual 3-3
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9. Select a COM number for the specific port from Port Number pull-down list. 10. Check the Auto Enumerating COM Number check-box to have subsequent ports mapped to continuous COM numbers. For example, if COM3 is assigned to Port 1, then COM4 will be automatically assigned to Port 2. 11. Select an Rx FIFO Trigger from the Rx FIFO Trigger pull-down list. Rx FIFO trigger levels of from 1 to 62 are available, with a default value of 56 bytes. Check the Set the change to all ports check
