HP 16610A, User Manual

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Chapter 1: Installing the Emulation Probe
Connecting a Terminal to the Emulation Probe’s Serial Port
Connecting a Terminal to the Emulation Probe’s
Serial Port
To set up a serial connection, you will need to:
• Set the serial configuration switches.
• Connect a serial cable between the host computer and the emulation
probe.
• Verify communications.
Serial connections on a workstation
If you are using a UNIX workstation as the host computer, you need to
use a serial device file. If a serial device file does not already exist on
your host, you need to create one. Once it exists, you need to ensure
that it has the appropriate permissions so that you can access it. See
the system documentation for your workstation for help with setting up
a serial device.
Serial connections on a PC
Serial connections are supported on PCs. You must use hardware
handshaking if you will use the serial connection for anything other
than setting LAN parameters.
If you are using a PC as the host computer, you do not need to set up
any special files.
To set the serial configuration switches
1 Set switch S1 to ON (RS-232).
2 Set switches S2-S4 to ON.
3 Set switch S5 to ON (HW HANDSHAKE ON) if your serial
interface uses the DSR:CTS/RTS lines for flow control. Set S5 to