IC-428P / IC-428PI PCI 32 bit RS-422/485 Multi Port Adapter User Manual
Note: This equipment has been tested and found to comply with the limits for a Class B digital device, pursuant to Part 15 of the FCC Rules. These limits are designed to provide reasonable protection against harmful interference in a residential installation. This equipment generates, uses and can radiate radio frequency energy, and if not installed and used in accordance with the instruction manual, may cause interference to radio communications.
￭ Introduction The IC-428P is a PCI bus card that supports eight independent RS-422 or RS-485 serial ports. It is ideal for various industrial communication and automation applications. Each port utilizes 128K FIFO memory and is able to control devices in a multi-drop mode. Furthermore, built-in surge functionality can protect your equipment and controller from being damaged by lightning or high voltage damage. The IC-428P supports both 3.3 and 5 voltages and can be used in either a 32 or 64 bit PCI slot.
￭ Package Contents 1 - PCI Serial IO Card 1 - DB9 or DB25 Male cable 1 - CD Driver 1 - User Manual If anything is missing or damaged, please contact you dealer immediately. ￭ Hardware Requirements Pentium or equivalent computer with an available PCI slot. CD-ROM / DVD-ROM required for software installation. Windows 3.1x/95/98SE/ME/NT4.0/2000/XP, DOS, Linux OS. ￭ Installation Follow the instructions given below to install the Serial PCI Card: 2 1.
￭ Driver Installation On Windows systems, the system will detect the presence of the PCI Serial card during the boot process and prompt you with a driver installation wizard. Please ignore the wizard. Instead, insert the driver CD in your CD/DVD ROM drive and run the appropriate setup file according to your operating system. The setup files can be found in the following directories on the CD ROM: Driver Location on CD ROM Windows 2000 / XP / 2003 \win2k and xp\setup.
Lastly, click “Finish” to complete the installation. Note: The “Found New Hardware Wizard” windows will show up and re-install the driver several times until you finish setting up each serial port. Uninstall Driver Please click Start > Control Panel > Add or Remove Programs then click on “Change/Remove” to uninstall I/O driver. Setup for Other Operating Systems Linux Please read the detailed files listed below about RedHat Linux OS system installation: Kernal: 2.2.x :\Linux\RedHat V6.0.pdf Kernal: 2.4.
￭ Verifying the Serial PCI Card When Windows finishes installing the driver, you can verify the card is recognized by the OS by checking: Control Panel>System-Hardware>Device Manager>Ports [COM&LPT] it should show the PCI Multifunction adapter. Note: If you install PCI serial ports to your system, you will be requested to restart your computer when you finish setting up each serial port. Click “Yes” if all serial ports have been installed, otherwise click “No”.
￭ Configuring the COM Port Select the PCI Serial Port you want to configure (for example COM3) by right clicking the mouse, then click “Properties”. Click the “Port Settings” to configure the Bits per second, Data bits, Parity, Stop bits and Flow control if you need to adjust the settings. Notes: Click the “Advanced” if you want to set more advanced features. There are three kinds of flow control: Xon/Xoff, Hardware and None.
The screen shot below will be displayed on Windows 2000/XP/2003 systems: The screenshot below will be displayed on Windows 95/98SE/ME systems: Notes: Enable Auto CTS/RTS Flow Control means the CTS/RTS flow control is controlled by hardware automatically. The system will be more stable if the function is enabled. If you set the Receive/Transmit Buffer to a higher value you will get faster performance because the time for the interrupt service routine will become shorter.
￭ Pin Assignments 8 USER MANUAL ￭ IC-428P / IC-428PI
￭ Specifications Function Type Serial Communication Host Controller Mode of Operation Differential Mode RS-422 Full-Duplex RS-485 Half-Duplex RS-422 1 Driver RS-485 10 Drivers RS-422 10 Receivers RS-485 32 Receivers Bus Transceivers Drivers per Line Receivers per Line Hardware IC SUN1889 Controller UART (16C650 compatible) Bus Interface 64-bit & 32-bit PCI Bus - 3.
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