Camera Link Range Extender over Fiber User Manual
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6.1
Terminal control
A Mini USB port is available for individual link & general information status and firmware
update. The port uses a Silabs CP2101 chip. A driver from the Silabs website might have to be
installed on certain PCs to gain access to the terminal port. Free supporting driver can be found
at: http://www.silabs.com/products/mcu/pages/usbtouartbridgevcpdrivers.aspx
After driver installation and USB connection is acquired a serial emulated terminal (i.e Tera
Term use is recommended) can be used with the following configurations, described in Table 3:
Parameter
Value
Baud rate
115200
Start bits
1
Stop bits
1
Parity
None
Flow Control
None
Table 3 : Serial emulated terminal configurations
6.2
Terminal commands
The following commands are supported by the terminal; each command must be followed by
carriage return (Enter) in order to execute:
6.2.1
KY-CL2F-H Host Unit
Command
Description
firmware
Sets the system to firmware update mode. See 6.3 chapter for firmware update
information
status
Prints the system and link status and general information
default
Reset user settings
save
Save user settings to flash
format
Configure device camera format, including; CL mode and camera scan type.
Where mode is mode according to Table 6
uartbaud
Set serial port baud rate according to Table 6
Table 4 : Terminal commands for Host unit
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Firmware
