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Congratulations on purchasing the high performance PCI Express
multi-serial host adapter. The adapter is high speed PCI Express bus
based and plug-and-play compliant. Its 16C950 UART based serial
ports (128-byte deep FIFO) are fully 16C550 UART compatible with most
of the RS232C devices available from the market.
Features:
Full x1 PCI Express Throughput, 250Mbytes/sec
Fully Compliant with PCI Express Base Specifications, Revision 1.0a
Extended 16C950 UARTs, Fully Compatible with 16C550, Baud Rate up to
921.6Kbps
Supports Power Option over pin 9 of the all DB9-Male Connectors
Supports 16-port DB9M connectors by 2 VHDCI-68 Octopus Cables
Supports Win 2000, 2003, XP-32, XP-64, Vista-32, Vista-64, and Linux
16-Port RS-232 Multi Serial PCI Express Card
Installation Guide
1. Introduction
2. Board Layout
J1: S1~S8 VHDCI-68
External Connector
J3: Aux. Power Connector
JP3: Aux Power
Source Selector
JP1:
S1~S8 Power over
Serial Connectors
Enable/Disable
P4
P3
8-port VHDCI-68 to
DB9MX8 Octopus
Cables
S1
:
:
:
S8
:
:
S9
:
:
:
S16
J2: S9~S16 VHDCI-68
External Connector
JP2:
S1~S8 Power over
Serial Connectors
Enable/Disable