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    — 1 — — 2 — — 3 — CI-132 Industrial Serial Board Quick Inst allation Guide First Edition, Decem ber 2004 1. Overview CI-132 is a 2-port RS-422/485 ISA serial board that is ideal for connecting a wide range of seri al devices—including terminals, modems, printers, scanners, cash regist ers, bar code readers, keypads, numeric displays, [...]

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    — 4 — — 5 — — 6 — 5. Pin Assignments CI-132 has two male DB9 ports on the board. In the following fig ure, we give the RS-422/485 pin assignments for the ports. CI-132 Ports (on the board) Male DB9 15 69 Pin RS-422 2-wire RS-485 1 TxD-(A) Data-(A) 2 TxD+(B) Data+(B) 3 RxD+(B) --- 4 RxD-(A) --- 5 GND GND 6 RTS-(A) --- 7 RTS+(B) --- 8 CTS[...]