Moxa Technologies CP-168U User Manual

Smartio CP-168U User’s Manual

Smartio 8-Port RS-232 Serial Board for PCI Bus

First Edition, February 2003

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Smartio CP-168U User’s Manual

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Table of Contents

1 Introduction..........................................................................1-1

Overview------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------1-1 Features ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------1-3 Package Checklist -----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------1-4 Installation Guide -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------1-5

2 Hardware Installation ..........................................................2-1

Installing the Smartio CP-104UL board----------------------------------------------------------------2-1

3 Software Installation ...........................................................3-1

Windows NT -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------3-1 Windows 95/98-------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 3-10 Windows 2000/XP---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 3-20

4 Serial Programming Tools.................................................... 4-1

5 Connection Cables and Cable Wiring................................... 5-1

RS-232 Cable Wiring --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------5-1

6 Troubleshooting ...................................................................6-1

General Troubleshooting ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------6-1 Windows NT -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------6-2 Windows 95/98----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------6-2

A Technical Reference ........................................................... A-1

Specifications----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- A-1 PCI ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ A-1 MOXA UART ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- A-2

Overview

Smartio—The Smart Multiport Async Solution

The term Smartio stands for smart multiport serial I/O solution. The Smartio CP-168U board is designed for the 32-bit PCI bus with Plug and Play feature. This board offers 8 RS232 serial ports for connecting terminals, modems, printers, scanners, cash registers, bar code readers, keypads, numeric displays, electrical scales, data acquisition equipment, and many other serial devices for the PC and compatible systems. With its well-designed and fine-tuned device driver, the Smartio boards make full use of the 64 byte Tx/Rx FIFO and on-chip H/W flow control, which makes possible transferring data without loss at transmission speeds up to 230.4 Kbps. These boards offer a reliable and high performance solution for serial multiport communications.

Board Applications

The CP-168U board can be used with many applications, including:

Introduction

 Internet/Intranet Connections

 Remote Access Applications

 Multi-user Applications

 Industrial Automation

 Office Automation

 Telecommunications

 PC-based Vending Machines or Kiosk Systems

 POS (Point-of-Sale) Systems

PCI Solution

The CP-168U board complies with PCI Spec. 2.1, and does not use either switches or jumpers. The hardware configuration for the IRQ and memory addresses is automatically assigned by the PCI BIOS. Hence, the board MUST be plugged in before installing the driver software. For more PCI information, refer to the Technical Reference Appendix.

Surge Protection

To prevent the board from being damaged by lightning or high potential voltage, embedded 16 KV ESD protection is used in the CP-168U board. This is required for harsh environments, such as in factory settings, under severe weather conditions, such as lightning, or other high interference situations.

Operating System Support

The CP-168U board supports Windows NT/2000/XP, Windows 95/98, and Linux. You may access Moxa’s website at www.moxa.com

for a more detailed installation guide.

MOXA Serial Comm Tool

For application development, MOXA provides an easy-to-use serial communication library (PComm) under Windows NT/2000/XP and Windows 95/98. With this library, it is easy to develop your own applications using sample applications developed with Visual Basic, Visual C++, Borland Delphi, etc. Utilities such as diagnostic, monitor, and terminal emulation are also included for debugging and monitoring communication status, terminal emulation, and file transfer.

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Introduction

Features

The Smartio CP-168U board has 8 RS-232 ports, embedded ESD 16 KV surge protection, and uses a Moxa or 16C550C compatible UART, and has the following important features:

 Supports universal PCI, plug and play (no switches or jumpers)

 Fits both 3.3V and 5V connector key

 Reliability—high speed Moxa UART Communication Controllers with on-chip

hardware flow control to guarantee no data loss

 Compact half-size design

 Embedded ESD 16V surge protection

 Easy installation—32-bit PCI bus with Plug and Play capability

 Powerful Serial Comm tool—PComm

 Broad OS support—Windows NT/2000/XP, Windows 95/98, Linux

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Package Checklist

You should find the following items in the Smartio CP-168U board package:

 Smartio CP-168U 8-port serial board

 Software CD that contains drivers for Windows NT/2000/XP, Windows 95/98, and

Linux.

 Smartio CP-168U User’s Manual (this manual)

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Introduction

Installation Guide

This section gives a brief summary of how to install the Smartio CP-168U board under each supported operating system. The installation is simple and involves the following stages:

Check the PCI BIOS settings. Install the Smartio CP-168U board.

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Install the software from the software CD. Configure the driver for the board and ports.

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Connect the devices with the cable.

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Restart the system. Check the driver initialization status.

If the system restarts successfully, you may develop your applications or execute the desired applications.

See Chapter 2, “Hardware Installation.”

See the respective OS section in Chapter 3, “Software Installation.”

See Chapter 5, “Connection Cables and Cable Wiring,” for cable wiring.

See Chapter 3, “Software Installation,” for board init. status.

See Chapter 4, “Serial Programming Tools.”

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Hardware Installation

The installation of the Smartio CP-168U board involves both hardware and software. Software installation is discussed in the next chapter. In this chapter, we discuss hardware installation.

The no-switch-no-jumper Smartio CP-168U board’s IRQ number and I/O addresses are assigned automatically by the PCI BIOS. For this reason, the board MUST be plugged in before installing the driver software.

Installing the Smartio CP-168U board

Step 1: Power off the PC.

Warning! To avoid damaging your system and board, make sure your PC’s

power is switched off before inserting this or any other board into an empy PCI slot.

Step 2: Remove the PC’s cover.

Step 3: Remove the slot cover bracket if one is in place.

Step 4: Insert the Smartio CP-168U control board firmly into a free 32-bit PCI slot.

Step 5: Fasten the holding screw to fix the control board in place.

Step 6: Replace the PC’s cover.

Step 7: Power on the PC; the BIOS will automatically set the IRQ and I/O address.

Note! Each board must occupy one unique IRQ and four 8-byte I/O

addresses, which are assigned automatically by the PCI BIOS.

However, you can select a free IRQ number manually via the PC’s BIOS setup for the PCI slot, but normally this method is not available for the I/O address. The possible IRQ numbers are 2, 3, 4, 5, 7, 10, 11, 12, and 15. The possible I/O addresses are from 0x0000 to 0xFFFF.

Step 8: Proceed with the software installation, as described in the next chapter,

“Software Installation”.

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In this chapter, the driver software installation, configuration, and driver update/removal procedures are described for various operating systems, including Windows NT, Windows 95/98, and Windows 2000/XP. Before proceeding with the software installation, be sure to first complete the hardware installation discussed in the previous chapter.

Refer to the next chapter, “Serial Programming Tools,” for information on developing your own serial programming applications.

Windows NT, Windows 95/98, Windows 2000/XP, and Linux drivers can be downloaded from the Moxa website.

Windows NT

Windows NT supports up to 256 serial ports, from COM1 to COM256. To fully utilize Windows NT’s multi-process and multi-thread advanced features, pure 32-bit Windows NT device drivers were developed for the Smartio CP-168U board and other MOXA multiport boards. The drivers conform to the Win32 COMM API standard.

Software Installation

Installing the Driver

First Time Driver Installation

The following procedure shows how to install the Smartio CP-168U driver for the first time. First make sure the board or boards are already plugged into the system’s PCI slot(s).

1. Log into NT as Administrator.

2. Copy the folder Windows.nt located under Software\WinNT\V5.7 on the software CD, to your computer’s hard disk (under the C: drive, for example).

3. Open the [Control Panel], click the [Network] icon, and then select the [Adapters] tab.

4. Click the [Add] button, and then the [Have Disk...] button in the [Select Network Adapter] dialog box.

5. Specify the exact path of the driver diskette, C:\Windows.nt in the example shown here, and then click [OK] to proceed.

6. Select MOXA Smartio/Industio Family multiport board in Select OEM Option dialog box, and then click [OK] to start installing the driver.

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Software Installation

7. The Moxa Smartio/Industio Configuration Panel dialog box appears. Click the [Add] button to open the Property dialog box to change port settings and advanced FIFO configuration done automatically by the system.

8. Select the just installed CP-168U board from the Board Type pull-down list, click on a specific port item, and then click on the [Port Setting] button to open the Port X window.

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