Lindy RS-422/485 manual

RS-422/485 PCI Card User Manual English No. 51200 ( 2 Port ) No. 51202 ( 4 Port ) No. 51204 ( 8 Port ) www .lindy .com © LINDY ELECTRONICS LIMITED & LIN DY -ELEKTRONIK GMBH - SEC OND EDITION (No v 2005)[...]

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 1.0 Introduction Thank you for purchasing the LINDY RS-422/485 Controller . This PCI serial card enables your computer to support serial RS-422/485 ports with 128Kbyte FIFO, Auto Identify and Switch RS-422/485 and ARSC™ technology .  2.0 Packing List Please check if the fo llowing items are present and in good condition upon opening the pa[...]

 3.0 Features 1. Fully compliant with PCI S pecification V ersion 2.2 2. Supports both 64 Bit & 32 Bit PCI Bus and 3.3V & 5V connector keys. 3. High speed serial ports suppor t baud rates of up to 921.6Kbp s. 4. Provides a FIFO maximize size of 128Kbytes. The 128K FIFO can reduce CPU loading, improving system performance dramatically . 5[...]

 4.0 Specifications 4.1 Function Ty p e LINDY Indus trial Hos t Controller Mode of Operation Differential RS-422 Full-Duplex Bus T ransceivers RS-485 Half-Duplex RS-422 1 Driv er Drivers per Line RS-485 10 Drivers RS-422 10 Receivers Receivers per Line RS-485 32 Receivers 4.2 Hardware IC SUN1889 Controller UART (16C650 comp atible) Bus Interface[...]

4.4 Driver support Windows3.x/95/98SE/ME/NT/2000/XP/2003 Driver Support DOS, OS/2 , Linux 2.0.x / 2.2.x / 2.4.18 / 2.4.20 4.5 Dimensions 51200 120 × 80mm 51202 160 × 104mm Dimensions (W × D) (St d.Bracket:121mm) 51204 180 × 108mm 4.6 Regulatory Approvals Hardware CE, FCC Regulatory Approv als Sof t w are WHQL 4.8 System Requirements 1. Pentium [...]

 6.0 Pin Assignments & Cable Wiring The pin assignments of the DB9 and DB25 Male port are stated as below: Type Signal DB9M DB25M TxD- 1 8 TxD+ 2 3 RxD+ 3 2 RxD- 4 20 RTS- 6 6 RTS+ 7 4 CTS+ 8 5 CTS- 9 22 RS-422 GND 5 7 Type Signal DB9M DB25M Data+ 2 3 Data- 1 8 RTS- 6 6 RTS+ 7 4 CTS+ 8 5 CTS- 9 22 RS-485 GND 5 7 - 5 -[...]

LINDY Serial Communication Boards hav e one DB37 female port for the 4 port version and one DB78 female port for t he 8 port version. The pin assignments of the DB37 female port and the DB78 female port are shown below and on the following page. LINDY DB37 female 4 Port Serial Communication Boards Pin Assignment Port Signal 1 2 3 4 TxD- 34 11 25 2 [...]

LINDY DB78 female 8 Port Serial Communication Boards Pin Assignment Port Signal 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 TxD- 21 6 30 15 60 45 69 54 TxD+ 1 25 10 34 40 64 49 73 RxD+ 2 26 11 35 41 65 50 74 RxD- 22 7 31 16 61 46 70 55 RTS- 3 27 12 36 42 66 51 75 RTS+ 24 9 33 18 63 48 72 57 CTS+ 4 28 13 37 43 67 52 76 CTS- 5 29 14 38 44 68 53 77 RS-422 GND 23 8 32 17 62 47 71[...]

LINDY Serial Communication Boards feat ure a 1 x DB37 Male to 4 DB9 Male cable for the 4 port version, and a 1 x DB78 Male port to 8 x DB9 Male ports cable, for 8 port version. DB37 Male to 4 x DB9 or DB25 Male Cable DB78 Male to 8 x DB9 or DB25 Male Cable - 8 -[...]

6.1 Jumper Settings These cards feature built-in termination re sistors for each serial port. Y ou can modify the jumper settings (short the pins) to avoid impedance mismatch problems when operating under multi-drop transmission. When an electrical signal travels th rough two resistance junctions in a transmission line, the impedance mismat ch will[...]

7.0 Driver Installation 7.1 Windows 2000 / XP / 2003: On booting up, the system will detect the presence of the PCI Serial card and prompt for the driver installation wi zard. Please ignore this for known and insert the driver CD in your CD/DV D ROM drive. Run the setup file: : PCI IOwin2k and xpsetup.exe (1) Please click “ Next ” to continu[...]

(2) Y ou can select the folder location in which the driver is installed. Click Next ” to continue. (3)The Software Inst allation Notice will appear , please click “ Continue Anyway ”, and the system will install the driver automatically . (4) Please click “ Finish ” and eject the driver CD. - 1 1 -[...]

(5) Please go back to the “Found New Hardware Wizard” window . Select “ Inst all the sof tware automaticall y (Recommend) ” and click “ Next ”. (6) The system will search and inst all the appropriate I/O driver automatically . (7) The “Hardware Inst allation Not ice” will appear , please click “ Continue Anyway ” and the system [...]

(9) T o uninstall the driver: Please click S tart > Control Panel > Add or Remove P r o g r a m s C l i c k “ Change/Remove ” to uninstall the I/O driver . 7.2 Windows 2000 / XP / 2003 on a 64-bit system: On booting up, Windows 2000 / XP / 2003 will detect the presence of the PCI Serial card and will prompt for driver installation. Insert[...]

7.5 Dos: Please install the driv er from the CD ROM: PCI IODOSinst all.exe , and follow the installation step s from the CD ROM: PCI IOserial.p df 7.6 Windows 95 / 98SE / ME: On booting up, Windows 95 / 98SE / ME will detect the presence of the PCI Serial card and will prompt for driver installation. Insert the driver CD in your CD/DVD ROM dri[...]

(2) Select “Search for the best driv er for your device (Recommended)” and click “Next” to continue. (3) Please select “ Specify a location ” and point to the CD Dr iver directory to install the driver . : PCI IOwin9x - 15 -[...]

(4) The system will search and inst all t he appropriate IO driver automatically . Please click “ Next ” to continue. (5) Please click “ Finish ” to complete this installation step. Note: The “Add New Hardware Wizard” window s will display and install drivers several times until you finish setting up each serial port. 7.7 V erifying Ser[...]

When Windows has finished installing the driver you must check: Control Panel > System > Hardware > Device Manager >Port s[COM&LPT] It will show the additional ports: Note: 1. If you have installed PCI Serial port s in your system, you will be requested to restart your computer , when you have finished setting up each serial port. C[...]

 8.0 Configure COM port (1) Select the PCI Serial Port which you want to configure, for example COM3 . Right click the mouse, and select “Properties” . (2) Click “ Port Settings ”. Configure the Bits per second, Dat a bits , Parity , S top bits and Flow control if you want to change them. There are three kinds of flow cont rol: Xon/Xoff,[...]

Click the “ Advanced ” button to set more advanced features. (3) Configure the “Enable Auto CTS/RTS Flow Control ”,“ 16/32 bytes FIFO length and Receive/T r ansmit Buffer trigger l evel if you want to change these settings (The 128K software FIFO adjustment only support s Microsof t Windows 2000 / XP / 2003 OS. Y ou can change the FI FO s[...]

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This device complies with Part 15 of the FCC Rules. Operation is subject to the followi ng two conditions: (1) this device may not cause harmful interference, and (2) this device must accept any interference received, including interference that may cause undesired operations. - 21 -[...]