Brainboxes CC-310 User manual

Hardware Manual

1.12 EDITION MARCH 1998

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Guarantee.

FULL 36 MONTHS GUARANTEE.

We guarantee your Serial Port Card for a full 36 months from

purchase, parts and labour, provided it has been used in the

specified manner. In the unlikely event of failure return your

interface to your Dealer, with proof of purchase, who will

determine whether to repair or replace this product with an

equivalent unit.

may be duplicated, copied, transmitted or reproduced in any way

without the prior written consent of the Manufacturer.

Due to the Manufacturers commitment to quality, software is

subject to continuous improvements: information regarding

upgrades can be obtained from your supplier.

Serial Solutions is supplied to you by

ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS.

IBM, COMPAQ, Hewlett Packard, H.P. and EPSON are

trademarks of the relevant companies. Windows is a trademark of

Microsoft.

PCI VELOCITY / OPTO ISO RS422/485 Introduction

Intro 1

PCI OPTO ISOLATED RS422/485 AUTOGATING

PCI VELOCITY RS422/485 AUTOGATING

These products conform to the following standards:

CE standard: EN55022:1987 Class B

IEC 801-2: 1991 Level 2

IEC 801-3: 1984 Level 2

IEC 801-4: 1998 Level 2

PCB: IEC 249-2-5

NEMA L1 1-10

DIN 40802

UTE C 93-711

BS 4584

MIL P-13949E

UL Approved to 94 V0

TIA /EIA: 485 A (1995) ,423 B (1996)

Year 2000: DISC PD2000-1

Introduction PCI VELOCITY / OPTO ISO RS422/485

Intro 2

PCI VELOCITY RS422/485 AUTOGATING

PCI OPTO ISOLATED RS422/485 AUTOGATING

OUTLINE CONTENTS

Chapter 1 - Supplied Serial Solution Software.

Chapter 2 - PCI Velocity RS422/485 Specifications.

Chapter 3 - PCI Dual RS422/485 Software

Configuration Guide.

Chapter 4 - Additional RS422/RS485 Information.

The Layout Of This Manual

Chapter 1 - Serial Solution Software, is an overview of

this companion software package for our range of serial portcards.

Chapter 2 - PCI Velocity RS422/485 Specifications,

gives details of the PCI Velocity RS422/485 specifications, details

of how to install the optional parallel port and shows you how to

install your PCI Velocity RS422/485 card.

Chapter 3 - PCI Velocity RS422/485 Software

Configuration Guide, shows you how to configure your

operating system to successfully allow trouble free operation of

your PCI Velocity RS422/485 card. Installation procedures are for

DOS, Windows 3.x, Windows 95 / 98 and Windows NT.

Chapter 4 - Additional RS422/RS485 Information,

gives details on the RS422 and R485 standard, and cabling; as well

as examining half and full duplex RS485 systems and information

on card grounding systems.

PCI VELOCITY / OPTO ISO RS422/485 Introduction

Intro 3

Table of Contents

CHAPTER 1..................................................................................1

INTRODUCTION. ........................................................................1

Introducing Serial Solution Software....................................1

Serial Solutions For DOS. ....................................................1

Serial Solutions For Windows 3.x.........................................3

Serial Solutions For Windows 95..........................................4

Serial Solutions For Windows NT. .......................................4

Complete Documentation and Technical Backup..................4

CHAPTER 2..................................................................................6

INTRODUCTION. ........................................................................6

General PCI RS422/485 Card Features.................................6

General PCI RS422/485 Serial Port Features (cont)..............7

Autogating............................................................................7

Optical Isolation...................................................................8

Configuring The PCI RS422/485 Cards.............................11

RS485 Multiplex Jumper Settings.......................................11

Hardware Installation. ........................................................13

Problems!...........................................................................14

CHAPTER 3................................................................................15

INTRODUCTION. ......................................................................15

INSTALLING PORTS IN MICROSOFT WINDOWS 95 & 98.............15

PCI Velocity RS422/485 Card Settings In Windows 95 & 98.

...........................................................................................18

PCI RS422/485 Port Settings In Windows 95 & 98. ..........19

CONFIGURING PORTS IN MICROSOFT WINDOWS NT 4.0...........23

Software Installation...........................................................23

Examining Card Configuration...........................................24

Configuring Ports...............................................................25

Introduction PCI VELOCITY / OPTO ISO RS422/485

Intro 4

Advanced Port Settings. .....................................................26

Uninstalling Serial Solutions PCI. ......................................28

CONFIGURING PORTS IN WINDOWS 3.X....................................29

Determining PCI RS422/485 Resources. ............................29

Windows 3.x Software Installation. ....................................30

Serial Port Installation........................................................31

Configuring The COM Ports. .............................................33

Deleting Ports in Windows.................................................34

Restarting Windows. ..........................................................34

CONFIGURING PORTS IN DOS..................................................35

Determining PCI RS422/485 Resources. ............................35

NEWCOM.SYS Parameters. ..............................................36

Configuring And Installing NEWCOM.SYS ......................38

Modifying Command Line Parameters. ..............................39

CHAPTER 4................................................................................40

THE RS422 STANDARD...........................................................40

THE RS485 STANDARD...........................................................40

Terminating Impedance’s. ..................................................41

Fail Safe Open Circuit Detection........................................42

Fail Safe Short Circuit Protection. ......................................42

RS422 OPERATION. ................................................................42

RS422 Serial Port Cables....................................................43

RS485 OPERATION. ................................................................44

RS485 Cable. .....................................................................45

RS485 One Talker - Many Listeners, Half Duplex..............45

RS485 Many Talkers- Many Listeners, Half Duplex...........46

RS485 Many Talkers- Many Listeners, Full Duplex. .......... 47

OPTIONAL GROUNDING ARRANGEMENTS.................................49

INDEX ........................................................................................52

PCI VELOCITY / OPTO ISO RS422/485 Serial Solutions

Chapter 1 Page 1

Chapter 1

SERIAL

SOLUTIONS

SOFTWARE.

Introduction.

This chapter is a brief description of the Serial Solutions

software package; this can also be purchased SEPARATELY and

is available from YOUR DEALER.

Introducing Serial Solution Software.

The perfect partner for any Serial Port is Serial Solutions

Software! Serial Solutions is a fully featured suite of programs

designed to squeeze the most from PC serial communications.

Serial Solutions is made up of the following components: -

Serial Solutions for DOS

Serial Solutions for Windows 3.x

Serial Solutions for Windows 95

Serial Solutions for Windows NT

All the Serial Solutions drivers have the following features: -

•Drivers for PC FIFO UARTs e.g. 16550 as well as the new

improved 32 byte 16650 and 64 byte 16750 UARTs.

•Support for any mix of RS232, RS422, and RS485 handshake

schemes.

•Support for wider range of Baud rates and for more than 4 serial

ports.

Serial Solutions For DOS.

Serial Solutions for DOS consists of the following

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programs: -

NewCOM.sys A device driver, it supports COM1 to COM16,

allowing 16 serial ports to be used under DOS.

It also includes an interrupt handler for

enhanced performance with user definable

buffer sizes. Accessible from all DOS

languages, it is the heart of the Serial Solution.

It has extensive handshaking support,

implementing both hardware handshaking

using any combination of the DTR, DSR, CTS,

RTS, and DCD lines, and a software handshake

using the XON/XOFF protocol.

NewCOM24.sys A device driver providing support for 24 ports.

NewCOM32.sys A device driver providing support for 32 ports.

NewMode.exe A replacement for the DOS ’mode com...’

command. NewMode is used to set the serial

parameters, including the port address, IRQ line

used, the baud rate, parity and data and stop bit

options. Baud rates supported are from 110

baud to 115,200 baud! Included is a very handy

query mode that reports the settings of the

various serial ports. Flexible and fast!

EASY programs. The EASY disk contains short, simple to

understand and use EASYBAS, EASYC and

ASYPAS programs, providing straight forward,

file type I/O to serial ports with debug

information. Use these FIRST, base your

sample applications on them. Source code,

make files and compiled ready to run programs

supplied.

TERM programs A suite of larger terminal emulation programs

written in C (Cterm), Assembly language

(Aterm), Pascal (Pasterm), BASIC (BASterm)

and FORTRAN (FORterm) show how to access

the NEWBIOS routines as well as the simple

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Chapter 1 Page 3

file I/O to ports. They contain many lines of

code and are thus harder to grasp. They

demonstrate in depth serial port programming

in a variety of languages but they are also

useful tools for using serial devices.

Comtest.exe Comtest is a short but invaluable program that is

used to check that the serial port at a particular I/O

address is functioning correctly and is connected to

the particular IRQ line. The program correctly

identifies the UART type by employing the built in

loop back capability of the PC serial port chip, a

full test of the baud rate generator, transmitting and

receiving buffer, parity enable and start stop bit is

performed. There is no need for a second serial

port or a cable when using this utility.

Serial Solutions For Windows 3.x

Serial Solutions for Windows 3.x works with Windows 3.0,

3.1 and 3.11 as well as Windows For Workgroups 3.11.

Serial Solutions for Windows 3.x consists of the following

programs: -

Setup.exe The install routine for the package.

Port.DLL Enhanced Control Panel applet. Allows

configuration of extra serial ports from the

Windows Control Panel. Supports single as well

as multiport cards using shared interrupts.

BbLynx.drv Replacement for COMM.DRV.

LynxAPI.dll Enhancement to the Windows Comms API’s

allowing support for more than 9 ports.

Term.exe Terminal program.

EasyCWIN C source code, project files and ready to run.exe

program for an easy to understand Windows

terminal program. Learn how to write Windows

comms apps correctly the easy way.

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Serial Solutions For Windows 95.

Windows 95 has an improved communication API and

directly supports up to 255 ports. Our Windows 95 driver supports

the shared interrupt mechanism used on our multiport cards. Serial

Solutions for Windows 95 consists of the following programs: -

SSCards.inf The information file to aid the installation

process "Have Disk....”

Ssmodem.inf Setup file for Serial Solutions modems.

sscardui.dll

ssportui.dll The device manager configuration DLLs and…

ssenum.vxd

ssv485.vxd ...the virtual device drivers providing the shared

ssvel.vxd interrupt handlers and dispatch routines etc for the

ssmult.vxd various Serial Solutions serial cards.

ssm485.vxd

Serial Solutions For Windows NT.

Windows NT has an improved communication API and

directly supports up to 255 ports. No extra driver is necessary for

Windows NT to drive multiport cards. Serial Solutions for

Windows NT consists of the following programs: -

Setup.exe Expands into the Control Panel applet and

associated files which allows the configuration of

all ports on Serial Solutions serial cards.

Ssmodem.inf Setup file for Serial Solutions modems.

Complete Documentation and Technical Backup.

We believe in supplying complete documentation with

every package we sell. The Serial Solution Software Package is no

exception, it has an attractive manual in an A5 binder, containing

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