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3-6 MVME166 Single Board Computer Installation Guide

3. Refer to the set-up procedure for your particular chassis or system for

details concerning the installation of the MVME166.

4. Connect the terminal which is to be used as the 166Bug system console to

the default debug EIA-232-D port at serial port 1 on front panel I/O

connector J9 through an MVME712-10 or MVME712-06 transition module.

Refer to the MVME166/MVME167/MVME187 Single Board Computers

Programmer’s Reference Guide for some possible connection diagrams. Set

up the terminal as follows:

– eight bits per character

– one stop bit per character

– parity disabled (no parity)

– baud rate 9600 baud (default baud rate of MVME166 ports at power-

up)

After power-up, the baud rate of the debug port can be reconfigured by

using the Port Format (PF) command of the 166Bug debugger.

Note

In order for high-baud rate serial communication between

166Bug and the terminal to work, the terminal must do some

form of handshaking. If the terminal being used does not

do hardware handshaking via the CTS line, then it must do

XON/XOFF handshaking. If you get garbled messages and

missing characters, then you should check the terminal to

make sure XON/XOFF handshaking is enabled.

5. If you want to connect devices (such as a host computer system and/or a

serial printer) to the other EIA-232-D port connectors (marked SERIAL

PORTS 2, 3, and 4 on the MVME712-10 or MVME712-06 transition

module), connect the appropriate cables and configure the port(s) as

detailed in step 4. above. After power-up, this(these) port(s) can be

reconfigured by programming the MVME166 CD2401 Serial Controller

Chip (SCC), or by using the 166Bug PF command.

Note that the MVME166 also contains a parallel port. To use a parallel

device, such as a printer, with the MVME166, connect it to the

PRINTER/PARALLEL port on an MVME712-10 or MVME712-07

transition module. Refer to the MVME166/MVME167/MVME187 Single

Board Computers Programmer’s Reference Guide for some possible

connection diagrams. However, you could also use a module such as the

MVME335 for a parallel port connection.