USER’S MANUAL Universal PCI Multi-IO RS-232 / Parallel Communication Board English Version Second Edition, March 2010 SUNIX Co., Ltd. Tel : +886-2-8913-1987 Fax: +886-2-8913-1986 Http://www.sunix.com.tw info@sunix.com.
___________________________________________________________________________________ Universal PCI Multi-IO Communication Board User’s Manual Copyright Copyright© 2010 SUNIX Co., Ltd. All Rights Reserved. No part of this publication may be reproduced, transcribed, stored in a retrieval system, translated into any language, or transmitted in any from or by any means, photocopying, manual, or otherwise, without prior written permission from SUNIX.
___________________________________________________________________________________ Table of Contents Chapter 1 Introduction...............................................................................................4 Overview ........................... ............................................................................ 5 Package Checklist ......................................................................................... 5 Product Features ..............................................
___________________________________________________________________________________ WHQL Certification Approval The Designed for Microsoft Windows 32/64-bit operation system WHQL logo identifies products that meet Microsoft’s quality standards, SUNIX I/O products carry with this logo and listed on Windows Catalog.
___________________________________________________________________________________ 1. Introduction ______________________________________________ SUNIX Golden I/O series, a line of Universal PCI Multi-port Serial and Parallel Multi-IO Communication Board, is designed for 3.3V / 5V and 32 / 64-bit PCI Bus with Plug and Play feature. Its can be installed in virtually any available PC system and compatible with all major operating systems.
___________________________________________________________________________________ Overview The majority of today’s motherboards are not equipped with any RS-232 or Parallel port. With SUNIX Universal PCI Serial and Parallel Multi-IO Communication Board, users can expand both COM and LPT ports on their system, allowing them to use serial and parallel devices further. It is compatible with RS-232.V24 standard serial and IEEE1284 Parallel interfaces.
___________________________________________________________________________________ Product Features Expands both RS-232 COM and IEEE1284 LPT ports on system. High performance SUNIX 16C950 UART Multi-IO controller on-board. Ultra low power consumption design for Green Environment. Compliance with PCI 33MHz Version 3.0/2.3/2.2./2.1 specification. Supports both 64-bit PCI-X & 32-bit PCI bus slot. RS-232 COM port communication speed supports up to 115.2Kbps (921.6Kbps Optional*).
___________________________________________________________________________________ Product Specifications Board Communication Interface Universal PCI 64/32bit BUS PCI Spec.Ver3.0/2.3/2.2/2.1 Controller SUNIX SUN1989 IRQ & IO Assigned by System (16C950 UART Compatible) Serial Communication Interface RS-232 No. of Port 1, 2, or 4-port (Depend on product user bought) FIFO 128 byte Hardware Signal TxD, RxD, RTS, CTS, DTR, DSR, DCD, RI, GND Baud rate 50bps ~115.2Kbps Stop bit 1, 1.
___________________________________________________________________________________ Regulatory Approvals Hardware Software EN55022 Class B, EN55024, EN61000-3-2, EN61000-3-3, FCC Part 15 Class B, RoHS Microsoft WHQL Windows Microsoft Client: XP / Vista / 7 (X86/X64) Microsoft Server: 2000 / 2003 / 2008 (X86/X64) Environment Operation Temperature Operation Humidity Storage Temperature 0 to 60°C (32 to 140°F) 5 to 95% RH -20 to 85°C (-4 to 185°F) Note: SUNIX High Speed RS-232 Card (H Version) supports
___________________________________________________________________________________ 2. Hardware Installation ______________________________________________ This chapter includes information about hardware installation for Universal PCI Serial and Parallel Multi-IO Communication Board.
___________________________________________________________________________________ Hardware Installation The hardware installation of Universal PCI Serial and Parallel Multi-IO Communication Board is easy to carry out. Before inserting the card into the PCI bus, please follow the detailed steps given below to install the PCI board in your computer. Safety First To avoid damaging your system and boards, make sure your PC’s power is turned off before installing PCI card.
___________________________________________________________________________________ For 2S/1P or 4S/1P PCI Multi-IO Card, there is one extend flat cable along with the board. Please connect the cable 2x13 female header to the board. The red wire matches with the arrow mark (first pin) on the board. Red Wire Fix the bracket on the PC chassis.
___________________________________________________________________________________ Pin Assignment This chapter provides the pin assignments for SUNIX Universal PCI Serial and Parallel Multi-IO Communication Board, as well as the pin assignments for the optional accessories.
___________________________________________________________________________________ Parallel Interface: DB25F PIN DB25F PIN 1 STROBE 14 AUTO FEED 2 DATA0 15 ERROR 3 DATA1 16 INT 4 DATA2 17 SELECT INPUT 5 DATA3 18 GND 6 DATA4 19 GND 7 DATA5 20 GND 8 DATA6 21 GND 9 DATA7 22 GND 10 ACKNOWLEDGE 23 GND 11 BUSY 24 GND 12 PAPER EMPTY 25 GND 13 SELECT 13
___________________________________________________________________________________ 3. Driver Installation ______________________________________________ After installing the Universal PCI Serial and Parallel Multi-IO Communication Board in your system successfully, please follow the step by step software installation guide to confirm how to install appropriate driver and configure the serial port settings.
___________________________________________________________________________________ Windows Driver Installation Please refer to following instructions to install the driver for the first time under Windows operation system. You will need to plug the board in an available PCI or PCI-X slot first, before installing the driver. (1) After the board is physically installed and the PC boots up, system will detect the PCI Multi-IO card and prompt for driver installation wizard, please choose cancel.
___________________________________________________________________________________ (3) Please select the product interface you bought, such as PCI. (4) Please select the O.S. version you are using, such as Windows Vista. Then system will process the driver installation step automatically.
___________________________________________________________________________________ (5) Click “Next” to continue driver installation steps. (6) Click “Finish” to end installation steps. If SUNIX I/O card install correct in your system, you can read “V” icon in this picture.
___________________________________________________________________________________ Windows Driver Uninstall Please refer to following instructions uninstall Multi-I/O card driver. (1) Click on the “Programs and Features” tab in the Windows Control Panel. Start > Controller Panel > Programs and Features (2) Entry Uninstall or change a program page, and double click “Windows Driver Package – SUNIX Co., Ltd SUNIX Multi-I/O Controller” to process driver uninstall procedure.
___________________________________________________________________________________ Windows Verify Installation You can use Windows “Device Manager” to verify proper installation. (1) Click on the “Programs and Features” tab in the Windows Control Panel. Start > Controller Panel > Device Manager (2) In the Device Manager window, you should see this board under Multifunction adapters (SUNIX 1-port RS-232 Serial Card / 1-port Parallel Multi-IO Card in this example).
___________________________________________________________________________________ Linux Driver Installation This installation guide describes the procedures to install the PCI Multi-IO board in Linux kernel 2.4.x and 2.6.x. Please refer to “snx_Vx.x.x.x.tar.gz” for driver installation detail in CD Driver (Linux folder) directory. : \ PCI_IO \ Linux (1) Driver install Please create a directory under root directory, e.g /temp, do commands: # cd / # mkdir temp After get driver file "snx_Vx.x.x.x.tar.gz".
___________________________________________________________________________________ Check driver module, do command: # lsmod | grep snx Unload driver, do command: # rmmod snx (2) Device node creation Each serial port has one device node which is named "ttySNX?", maximum up to 32 serial ports. Each parallel port has two device node which is name "lp?" and "parport?". This step will backup lp2~lp3 and parport2~parport3 to lp?.bak and parport?.bak in /dev for your system first.
___________________________________________________________________________________ 4. Port Configuration ______________________________________________ This chapter shows all Serial COM and Parallel LPT port settings that user came with usually, such as port number, FIFO length(size), baud rate, IO address and others.
___________________________________________________________________________________ Configure COM / LPT Port Settings After the board drivers are installed, please refer to following instructions to configure Serial COM and Parallel LPT port settings. (1) Please launch the “Device Manager”. (2) Right click the “SUNIX 2-port RS-232 Serial Card / 1-port Parallel Multi-IO Card” item from the “Multifunction adapters” sub-tree and click “Properties”. (3) On the “Port Control” tab, select a port to configure.
___________________________________________________________________________________ COM / LPT Port Number Settings Under Port Number, select a COM number to assign to the serial port. Click “OK” to approve the settings for the selected port. Note: In order to prevent system resource conflict, do not select “in use” port. COM / LPT System Resource User can read the COM or LPT port’s “IO Range” and “IRQ” located in system by selecting assigned port.
___________________________________________________________________________________ 5. Appendix ______________________________________________ This chapter shows some problems that user came with usually. Also you can check it if the PCI serial and parallel board can not work properly in your system after following hardware and software installation steps. In addition, you could contact with us for detail technical product information. In this appendix, we cover the following topics.
___________________________________________________________________________________ Troubleshooting 1. System fails to find the PCI serial & parallel board or COM / LPT port. A: It may cause by following issue: a. The board is not properly plugged into the PCI slot. b. Please clean the golden finger. c. The PCI slot is defective. Please try other slots until you find one that works. d. The mainboard does not have an available IRQ for the PCI serial board. Enter the PC.
___________________________________________________________________________________ 5. How large FIFO length I should set? A: FIFO (First-in-First-out) buffers are used to reduce the frequency of interrupt processes for UART chips. The size of the buffer will determines the number of times the cards need to interrupt the computer’s CPU in order to process a string of data.
___________________________________________________________________________________ Product Family SUNIX provides kinds of RS-232 and IEE1284 interface cards for customer selection, including PCI Express, PCI, CardBus, and ExpressCard. Please refer to the product family table for reference. Multi I/O PCI Express Interface Port Connecter COM LPT COM LPT 1 1 DB9 Male DB25 Female Serial Baud Rate Power output Bracket 115.2Kbps Model NO. MIO5469A 921.
___________________________________________________________________________________ Multi I/O PCI Interface Port COM Connecter LPT COM LPT DB9 Male 13x2 Pin Header Serial Baud Rate Power output Bracket 115.2Kbps Model NO. MIO5079A Standard 921.6Kbps MIO5079H MIO5079U 2 1 5x2 Pin Header 13x2 Pin Header 115.2Kbps 921.6Kbps 115.2Kbps - DB44 Female 921.6Kbps Low Profile MIO5079UL Standard MIO5079UH Low Profile MIO5079AL MIO5079HL MIO5099A 115.
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