AAxeon MSC-102B Installation Manual - Introduction
RS-422/485 Multiport Serial PCI Card
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Introduction
Congratulation on your purchasing this high performance
RS-422/485 multiport serial PCI card. The card is high speed PCI
bus based and plug-and-play compliant. It works at 2-wire
(with Auto Transceiver Turn Around feature, ATTA
TM
) and 4-wire
configuration. Its UARTs are fully 16C950 (128-byte FIFO)
featured and compatible with most of the serial devices
available from the market.
Features:
Fully PCI Bus Specifications 2.2 and Power Management 1.0
compliant
128-byte on-chip FIFO and arbitrary trigger levels and
interrupts, and automatic hardware/software flow control
Up to 921.6 Kbps baud rate, over 700 Kbps data throughput
5,6,7,8,9-bits data framing
Precise RS-485 ATTA
TM
(Auto Transceiver Turn Around) feature
to disable the line driver by hardware
Supports echo mode to help software determining
unexpected bus collisions
Universal PCI compatible with 3.3/5V PCI and PCI-X buses
Optional 15KV ESD surge and optical isolation protection
models are available
Supports Win98/Me, NT, Windows 2000 and XP,2003, and
Linux