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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 

Summary of Contents for msc-216a

Page 1: ...6C950 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 ...

Page 2: ... 9 2 JP3 External Power Selector The pin 9 of the serial port connector s will be supplied with DC5V or DC12V There are 3 sources depend on the jumper s position of the JP3 3 JP3 External Power Selector Settings Internal 12V Power source is 12VDC from PCI Express golden finger motherboard s PCI Express slot default External 12V Power source is 12VDC from J3 AUX power connector External 5V Power so...

Page 3: ...ivers of the PCIe card for each Operating System were shipped in the following different folders on the driver CD When the Windows detect the PCIe card it will invoke its Installation Wizard 4 Software Installation Drivers are in each corresponding folder ...

Page 4: ...dows 2000 installation we recommend you to choose Install from a list or specific location Advanced from the following menu then browse to the correct driver location IO OXFORD2 2000 for Windows 2000 It will prevent from the Windows 2000 searching wrong drivers ...

Page 5: ...r DC12V depends on the settings of the JP1 and JP2 please refer to the above sections for more detail information Check Windows Version Showed in the folder here XP32 in this example 5 Male DB9 Pin Assignments and Cable Wiring 1 5 6 9 9 Pins Signal 1 DCD 2 RXD 3 TXD 4 DTR 5 GND 6 DSR 7 RTS 8 CTS 9 Power ...

Page 6: ...e Data Bits Stop Bits I O address IRQ Parity VHDCI 68 VHDCI 68 to DB9MX16 Octopus type 1 lane PCI Express 16 TXD RXD RTS CTS DTR DSR DCD GND 110 bps to 921 6Kbps 5 6 7 8 9 1 1 5 2 Plug and Play various None Even Odd 1 0 6 Specification DB9 USB Adapter DB9 Serial Device 1 DCD 1 DCD 2 RXD 2 RXD 3 TXD 3 TXD 4 DTR 4 DTR 5 GND 5 GND 6 DSR 6 DSR 7 RTS 7 RTS 8 CTS 8 CTS ...

Page 7: ... 232 Multi Serial PCI Express Card 7 Flow Control Power Requirement Operating Temperature Operating Humidity Storage Temperature RTS CTS XON XOFF 3 3V 500mA 0 to 55 C 32 to 132 F 5 to 95 RH 20 to 85 C 4 to 185 F ...

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