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Page 2: ...013 All rights reserved including those to reproduce this document or parts thereof in any form without permission in writing from Commtech Inc FASTCOM and the Alpha Lemur are registered trademarks of Commtech Inc Microsoft is a registered trademark of Microsoft Corporation WINDOWS is a trademark of Microsoft Corporation ...
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Page 4: ...ION 5 HARDWARE INSTALLATION 5 SOFTWARE INSTALLATION 5 TESTING THE INSTALLATION 6 TESTING THE FASTCOM ASYNC PCI PORT IN WINDOWS 6 FASTCOM ASYNCPCI 335 SERIAL SETTINGS 7 FASTCOM G232 8 PCI 335 ADAPTER CABLE 9 HDDB78 PIN DESCRIPTION 9 DB25 PIN DESCRIPTION 10 PROGRAMMING 11 MAXIMUM DATA RATE 12 TECHNICAL SUPPORT 13 APPENDIX A 14 17D158 UART DATA SHEET 14 ...
Page 5: ... 30 MHz 1 GHz Class B Limits EN 50082 1 1992 EMC Generic Immunity Standard Part 1 Residential Commercial and Light Industry IEC 801 2 1984 Method of Evaluating Susceptibility to Electrostatic Discharge Level 4 IEC 801 3 1984 Radiated Electromagnetic field Requirements Level 3 IEC 801 4 1988 Electrical Fast Transient Burst Requirements Level 2 Products listed on this declaration are exempt from the...
Page 6: ... The clock generator is capable of generating frequencies from 6 to 50 MHz Utilizing this feature it is possible to configure the board to operate at virtually any serial data rate that the user desires 1 Mbits second and faster Additionally this board is equipped with two general purpose digital input and output pins These software controlled digital I O pins can be used to send or receive a TTL ...
Page 7: ... 536 x 4 721 in MD1 length Power Requirements 600mA 5V typical Certification FCC compliant CE marked Operating Temperature Range 0 C to 70 C Humidity 0 to 90 non condensing Features New high performance 17D158 UART Standard or the Fastcom G232 8 PCI 335 All baud rates up to and above 1 Mbps See Maximum Data Rate section 64 byte FIFOs for improved throughput Eight independent channels Software prog...
Page 8: ...4 Fastcom G232 8 PCI 335 BOARD LAYOUT PACKING LIST Fastcom G232 8 PCI 335 Card 232 8 Cable Assembly Fastcom CD If an omission has been made please call customer service at 316 636 1131 for a replacement ...
Page 9: ...acket from your PC install the Fastcom G232 8 PCI 335 in the PC by pressing it firmly into the slot Install the bracket screw to hold it firmly in place 6 Re install the cover on your PC 7 Refer to Software Installation in the next section for information on installing the software for the board Software Installation 1 Click here to open the Installation Manual located on your Fastcom CD If you do...
Page 10: ...the loopback plug on the port to test 2 Open an MS DOS or Command prompt windows and change to the directory C cd directoryname where you saved the Fastcom software files that were either copied from the CD or downloaded from our website Change to the examples directory then change to the loop_back directory 3 Type loop_back X Where X is the COM port you wish to test 4 This test will transmit data...
Page 11: ...your bit rate as the answer By default the clock is set to 14 7456 MHz 14745600 Hz This frequency can be divided by whole numbers to get all of the standard bit rates i e 9600 19200 115200 etc Minimum 6 MHz Maximum 50 MHz For Example Frequency Sampling rate 8 or 16 n bit rate 14 745 600 16 96 9600 This setting is global Changing the clock generator frequency will affect all Fastcom ports on the bo...
Page 12: ...ing too many interrupts for your CPU to handle Tx FIFO Trigger Tx Write Size must not exceed 64 Tx Write Size1 Tx Write Size is the number of bytes that get written to the Tx FIFO when the low water mark is reached Raising or lowering this value can help to reduce the number of interrupts generated by the Fastcom port during transmits This setting affects only the selected port Modify this value o...
Page 13: ...T1 pin 20 DIN2 pin 58 and DOUT2 pin 59 are not connected to the cable They are available only on the board connector HDDB78 Pin Description SIGNAL NAME COLOR DB25 PIN NO DB78 CHANNEL NUMBER PIN NUMBER 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 DCD RED 8 1 4 6 8 10 13 15 17 CTS YELLOW 5 2 5 7 9 11 14 16 18 RXD BLUE 3 3 23 26 28 12 32 35 37 RI GREEN 22 21 24 27 29 30 33 36 38 DTR PURPLE 20 22 25 44 47 31 34 53 56 DSR BLACK 6 ...
Page 14: ...is a pin description of the DB25 connectors PIN NO SIGNAL NAME DIRECTION 1 Not connected 2 TRANSMIT DATA TxD OUTPUT 3 RECEIVE DATA RxD INPUT 4 REQUEST TO SEND RTS OUTPUT 5 CLEAR TO SEND CTS INPUT 6 DATA SET READY DSR INPUT 7 SIGNAL GROUND GND GROUND 8 CARRIER DETECT CD INPUT 9 19 Not connected 20 DATA TERMINAL READY DTR OUTPUT 21 Not connected 22 RING INDICATOR RI INPUT 23 25 Not connected ...
Page 15: ...ommands as well as the custom structures used in them are defined in the fcapi h header file Fastcom AsyncPCI 335 Serial Setting DeviceIOControl dwIoControlCode Clock Generator Frequency IOCTL_FASTCOM_SET_CLOCK Rx Echo Cancel IOCTL_FASTCOM_SET_RXECHO Sampling Rate IOCTL_FCPORT_SET_SAMPLING Digital Output 1 2 IOCTL_FCPORT_SET_DIGI_OUT Digital Input 1 2 IOCTL_FCPORT_GET_DIGI_IN Tx FIFO Trigger Level...
Page 16: ...proximate correlations between maximum baud rate and cable length up to a typical maximum of 2 062 500 bps rates above 1 Mbps are possible but not guaranteed To determine the max length at a given baud use d 9 04 10 5 bps 192 To determine the max baud at a given cable length use bps 11 000 d 2 13 10 6 d approximate MAX cable length in feet bps estimated MAX baud rate in bits per second Equations a...
Page 17: ...phone or email to obtain an RMA number You are responsible for shipping charges when you return a FASTCOM board to Commtech We will pay the shipping charges to send the board back to you if a defect in workmanship is found However if no defect in workmanship is found or the board is not found to be defective or the any of the following warranty exclusions occur you will be responsible for shipping...
Page 18: ...14 Fastcom G232 8 PCI 335 APPENDIX A 17D158 UART Data Sheet View from CD Download from web ...
