1. Introduction
This PCI Host Adapter is a PCI controller board which can upgrade your desktop
computer to have Multiple RS232 (UART) ports.
The board supports a 32-bit 33 MHz PCI bus revision 3.0, RS232 transfer rate of 920
Kbps.
It comes with drivers for Windows.
1.1. Features
1.1.1. PCI Interface
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Compliant with PCI Specification, revision 3.0 and PCI Power Management
Specification 1.1
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32 bit/33MHz fully compliant PCI host interface
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3.3V Operation
1.1.2. RS232 (UART) Serial Port
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Multiple 16C950 High performance RS232 UART DB9 channels
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Superset and backward compatible to 16C550, 16C650, 16C750 and 16C850
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128-byte deep FIFO per transmitter and receiver
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Supports data transfer rate up to 920 Kbps
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128 Rx interrupt thresholds
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128 Tx interrupt thresholds
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128 flow control thresholds
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Supports 64bit/32bit Windows