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CONTENTS

Contents

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1. Specifications . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6

2. Introduction . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7

2.1 Overview . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7
2.2 What’s Included . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7

3. Card Setup . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8

3.1 Clock Modes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8
3.2 Baud Rates and Divisors for the “Div1” Mode . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9
3.3 Address and IRQ Selection . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10

4. Installation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11

4.1 Setting Up the Operating System . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11

4.1.1 Windows 3.1x . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11
4.1.2 Windows 95/98 Users . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11
4.1.3 Windows NT. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11
4.1.4 DOS . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11
4.1.5 Other Operating Systems . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11

4.2 Installing the Hardware . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12

5. Technical Description . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13

5.1 Interrupts . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13
5.2 Why Use an ISP? . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13

6. Connector Pin Assignments . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 14

6.1 DB25 (RS-232 DTE) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 14
6.2 DB78 Connector Pin Assignments (IC142C). . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 14
6.3 DB68 Connector Pin Assignments (IC190C-R2) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 15

Appendix A: Troubleshooting . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 16

A.1 Using the Serial Utility CD-ROM . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 16
A.2 Calling Black Box. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 17
A.3 Shipping and Packaging . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 17

Appendix B: RS-232 Electrical Interface . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 18

Appendix C: Asynchronous Communication . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 19

Summary of Contents for IC142C

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Page 2: ...uipment in a residential area is likely to cause interference in which case the user at his own expense will be required to take whatever measures may be necessary to correct the interference Changes...

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Page 6: ...s 11 4 1 3 Windows NT 11 4 1 4 DOS 11 4 1 5 Other Operating Systems 11 4 2 Installing the Hardware 12 5 Technical Description 13 5 1 Interrupts 13 5 2 Why Use an ISP 13 6 Connector Pin Assignments 14...

Page 7: ...0 to 50 C Storage 4 to 158 F 20 to 70 C Humidity Up to 90 noncondensing Connectors IC142C 1 DB78 male on card 1 DB78 female and 8 DB25 male on included octopus cable IC190C R2 1 DB68 female on card 1...

Page 8: ...nterrupt control and a 16 byte input and output FIFO buffer It s functionally four 16550 UARTs The IC190C R2 has a 16854 UART with a 128 byte FIFO It is functionally four 16850 UARTs 2 2 What s Includ...

Page 9: ...ing modes This mode is selected at J1 To select the baud rates commonly associated with COM ports 2400 4800 9600 19 2 115 2 kbps place the jumper in the divide by 4 position marked DIV4 Figure 3 1 Clo...

Page 10: ...ps 2400 bps 600 bps 4800 bps 1200 bps 9600 bps 2400 bps 19 2 kbps 4800 bps 57 6 kbps 14 4 kbps 115 2 kbps 28 8 kbps 230 4 kbps 57 6 kbps 460 8 kbps 115 2 kbps If your communications package allows the...

Page 11: ...ess and IRQ Selection The adapter is automatically assigned I O addresses and IRQs by your motherboard BIOS Only the I O address may be modified by the user Adding or removing other hardware may chang...

Page 12: ...rd Power down the computer and install the adapter The resources are automatically configured for the PCI card Refer to the appropriate help file in the Black Box folder located in the Start Programs...

Page 13: ...and remove the blank metal slot cover 4 Gently insert the adapter into the slot Make sure that it is seated properly 5 Connect the DB78 female connector end of the octopus cable to the DB78 male conne...

Page 14: ...system in the PC has its own interrupt frequently called an IRQ short for Interrupt ReQuest 5 2 Why Use an ISP The Interrupt Status Port ISP is a read only 8 bit register that sets a corresponding bit...

Page 15: ...Input CTS Clear to Send 5 Input DSR Data Set Ready 6 Input DCD Data Carrier Detect 8 Input RI Ring Indicator 22 Input 6 2 DB78 Connector Pin Assignments IC142C Port 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 TD 36 12 27 3 75 5...

Page 16: ...s IC190C R2 Port 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 TD 1 9 19 27 35 43 53 61 RI 2 10 20 28 36 44 54 62 DCD 3 11 21 29 37 45 55 63 DTR 4 12 22 30 38 46 56 64 RTS 5 13 23 31 39 47 57 65 DSR 6 14 24 32 40 48 58 66 RD 7 15...

Page 17: ...ny other adapters such as SCSI adapters and on board serial ports do not The IRQ is typically selected via an on board header block Refer to Chapter 3 for help in choosing an I O address and IRQ 4 Mak...

Page 18: ...any particular application that when used appears to create the problem or make it worse Also have the following information ready when you call 1 Current adapter settings If possible have the adapter...

Page 19: ...ta Terminal Equipment and Data Circuit Terminating Equipment Employing Serial Binary Data Interchange RS 232 can operate at data rates of up to 20 kbps at distances less than 50 ft 15 2 m The absolute...

Page 20: ...r Transmitter UART which allows asynchronous serial data to be transferred through a simple and straightforward programming device The serial host adapter IC142C uses a much newer 16554 UART that also...

Page 21: ...ed E ven Parity or O dd Parity Sometimes parity is not used to detect errors on the data stream this is called N o Parity Because each bit in asynchronous communication is sent consecutively it is wra...

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