COM-4CL-PCI Serial Communication PCI Card RS-232C 4ch

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Overview / Features

This product is a PCI board designed for extending RS-232C compatible serial communication functionality on your PC. The product has four RS-232C communication ports. With a 64byte built-in FIFO buffer for transmission and reception of each channel, the product supports a baud rate of up to 230,400bps. A Windows driver is also supported to allow the boards to be used as an OS standard COM port.

• Max. 230,400bps RS-232C Serial Communication

  • The product has four RS-232C-standard serial ports. Baud rates from 15 to 230,400 bps can be set.
• Possibly used as Windows-standard COM ports, using the supported driver library

  • Support a driver library that allows the boards to be used under Windows in the same way as COM ports on the PC. Under Windows, the product supports the OS-standard Win32 API communication function as well as Visual Basic MSComm. In operation and to perform a communication test with equipment.
• Max. 16 boards can be installed as configured in the range COM1 - COM256

  • Up to 16 boards can be mounted on a single PC. COM1 - COM256 can be set using the device manager.
• Each channel is equipped with separate 64-byte FIFO buffers for transmit and receive

  • Employed a buffer memory 64-byte dedicated to transmission and 64-byte for each channel. These are FIFO format, useful for high speed communications and to reduce the load to the CPU when transmitting/receiving.
• The control line for RS-232C can be controlled and monitored by software

  • The control lines for RTS, CTS, DTR and DSR can be controlled and monitored using an application.