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CONTENTS

Contents

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1.

Specifications . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6

2.

Introduction . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7
2.1 Overview . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7
2.2 What the Package Includes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7

3.

Installation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8
3.1 Installing the Software . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8
3.2 System Installation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8

4.

Configuration . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10

5.

Troubleshooting . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 14
5.1 Calling Black Box . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 14
5.2 Shipping and Packaging . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 14

Appendix A. Connector Pin Assignments . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 15

Appendix B. Electrical Interface . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 16

B.1 RS-232 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 16
B.2 RS-422 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 16
B.3 RS-485 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 17

Appendix C. Asynchronous Communication . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 18

Summary of Contents for IC1023A

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Page 3: ...ato el ctrico debe ser montado a la pared o al techo s lo como sea recomendado por el fabricante 8 Servicio El usuario no debe intentar dar servicio al equipo el ctrico m s all a lo descrito en las in...

Page 4: ...r una antena externa deber ser localizada lejos de las lineas de energia 16 El cable de corriente deber ser desconectado del cuando el equipo no sea usado por un largo periodo de tiempo 17 Cuidado deb...

Page 5: ...marks of International Business Machines Corporation Windows is either a registered trademark or trademark of Microsoft Corporation in the United States and or other countries Any other trademarks men...

Page 6: ...tallation 8 3 1 Installing the Software 8 3 2 System Installation 8 4 Configuration 10 5 Troubleshooting 14 5 1 Calling Black Box 14 5 2 Shipping and Packaging 14 Appendix A Connector Pin Assignments...

Page 7: ...on 1 1 MTBF Greater than 150 000 hours Connectors 8 DB9 female 1 USB Indicators 9 LEDs 8 Port activity 1 Power Temperature Tolerance Operating 32 to 122 F 0 to 50 C Storage 4 to 158 F 20 to 70 C Relat...

Page 8: ...are hot swappable and include LED status indicators for power and port activity The hub has eight USB UARTs These chips feature programmable baud rate data format 128 byte dual port TX buffer and 384...

Page 9: ...connected to any upstream type A port either at the PC host or an upstream hub The hub is hot pluggable so there s no need to power down your computer before installation Once you ve connected the hub...

Page 10: ...You can access your new COM ports by using the assigned COM identifiers as shown above in this case COM12 through COM19 However this assignment will vary from system to system At this point the hardwa...

Page 11: ...RX To change the configuration on the IC1024A or IC1025A start by opening the box To do this remove the four screws that attach the two halves of the box Each port can be individually configured for...

Page 12: ...5 mode with receiver echo In this mode the receiver is enabled only when no data is being transmitted 485 NE refers to RS 485 mode with no receiver echo In either RS 485 mode the transmitter is only e...

Page 13: ...ohm pull up resistor connected to CTS Position RS 232 mode Always OFF 5 or 11 RS 422 mode Always ON RS 485 mode Always ON PU 1 Kohm pull down resistor connected to RX Position RS 232 mode Always OFF 4...

Page 14: ...n NOTE There are no provisions for looping TX to RX and TX to RX for 2 wire RS 485 mode These connections must be made inside the DB9 connector Refer to the RS 422 pinout diagram in Appendix A for the...

Page 15: ...e a complete description including the nature and duration of the problem when the problem occurs the components involved in the problem any particular application that when used appears to create the...

Page 16: ...S Request to Send Negative 7 Output RX Receive Data Positive 1 Input RX Receive Data Negative 2 Input CTS Clear to Send Positive 9 Input CTS Clear to Send Negative 8 Input RS 232 Table 5 2 RS 232 DB9...

Page 17: ...circuits Data Terminal Equipment DTE and Data Circuit Terminating Equipment DCE The 8 Port USB Hub is a DTE device B 2 RS 422 The RS 422 specification defines the electrical characteristics of balance...

Page 18: ...etwork environments RS 485 tri state driver not dual state will allow the electrical presence of the driver to be removed from the line Only one driver may be active at a time and the other driver s m...

Page 19: ...ous communications are defined by a starting bit followed by a pre defined number of data bits 5 6 7 or 8 The end of the character is defined by the transmission of a pre defined number of stop bits u...

Page 20: ...r The data rate and communication parameters for asynchronous communication have to be the same at both the transmitting and receiving ends The communication parameters are baud rate parity number of...

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