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© National Instruments Corporation vii Serial Hardware and Software for Windows Contents About This Manual Conventions ................................................................................................................... xiiiRelated Documentation...........................................

Contents Serial Hardware and Software for Windows x ni.com Appendix DTroubleshooting and Common Questions Appendix ESpecifications Appendix FTechnical Support Resources Glossary Index Figures Figure 2-1. PCI Serial Board Installation ................................................................ 2...

Contents Serial Hardware and Software for Windows xii ni.com Figure C-4. Selecting an Interface to Uninstall ........................................................ C-7 Figure C-5. Selecting an Interface to Uninstall ........................................................ C-9 Figure C-6. Selecting...

© National Instruments Corporation xiii Serial Hardware and Software for Windows About This Manual This manual contains instructions to help you install and configure theNational Instruments serial hardware and the NI-Serial software forWindows 2000/NT/Me/9 x . This manual includes information about...

About This Manual Serial Hardware and Software for Windows xiv ni.com bold Bold text denotes items that you must select or click on in the software,such as menu items and dialog box options. Bold text also denotesparameter names. DTR Signal names with an overscore, such as DTR, indicate that the sig...

© National Instruments Corporation 1-1 Serial Hardware and Software for Windows 1 Introduction This chapter explains how to use this manual, lists what you need to getstarted and optional equipment you can order, and briefly describes theserial hardware and the NI-Serial software. How to Use This Ma...

Chapter 1 Introduction Serial Hardware and Software for Windows 1-2 ni.com What You Need to Get Started Before you install your serial hardware and the NI-Serial software, makesure you have all of the following items: ❑ Windows 2000/NT/Me/9 x installed on your computer ❑ One of the following serial ...

Chapter 1 Introduction © National Instruments Corporation 1-3 Serial Hardware and Software for Windows Optional Equipment For more information about ordering the following optional equipment,contact National Instruments: • DB-9 RS-485 termination connector (PCI-485, PCMCIA-485,PXI-8421, PXI-8423, an...

Chapter 1 Introduction Serial Hardware and Software for Windows 1-4 ni.com The isolated PCI-232 and PCI-485 boards are designed for applications inharsh environments. Isolated ports provide reliable communication insituations involving ground loops from different ground levels or highcommon mode vol...

Chapter 1 Introduction © National Instruments Corporation 1-5 Serial Hardware and Software for Windows The isolated PXI boards are designed for applications in harshenvironments. Isolated ports provide reliable communication in situationsinvolving ground loops from different ground levels or high co...

Chapter 1 Introduction Serial Hardware and Software for Windows 1-6 ni.com PCMCIA Kits The serial hardware gives you a variety of solutions for serialcommunications. The PCMCIA-232 interfaces work with the RS-232protocols, and the PCMCIA-485 interfaces work with the RS-422 andRS-485 protocols. You c...

Chapter 1 Introduction Serial Hardware and Software for Windows 1-8 ni.com NI-Serial Software Overview The NI-Serial software for Windows 2000/NT/Me/9 x includes a native Windows 2000/Me/9 x device driver and Windows NT kernel driver that provide full interrupt-driven, buffered I/O for multiple COM ...

© National Instruments Corporation 2-1 Serial Hardware and Software for Windows 2 PCI Serial Hardware Installation,Verification, and Configuration This chapter describes how to install the NI-Serial software and PCI serialhardware and how to verify the installation. It also describes how toconfigure...

Chapter 2 PCI Serial Hardware Installation, Verification, and Configuration © National Instruments Corporation 2-3 Serial Hardware and Software for Windows Figure 2-1. PCI Serial Board Installation 7. Screw the PCI serial board mounting bracket to the back panelmounting rail of the computer. 8. Repl...

Chapter 2 PCI Serial Hardware Installation, Verification, and Configuration Serial Hardware and Software for Windows 2-4 ni.com Verify the Installation To verify the hardware and software installation, complete the followingsteps: 1. Select Start»Settings»Control Panel and double-click on the System...

Chapter 2 PCI Serial Hardware Installation, Verification, and Configuration © National Instruments Corporation 2-5 Serial Hardware and Software for Windows 5. Verify the hardware resources, as follows: a. In the Device Manager under Multi-function adapters, double-click on a serial board. b. Click o...

Chapter 2 PCI Serial Hardware Installation, Verification, and Configuration Serial Hardware and Software for Windows 2-6 ni.com 4. Double-click on the port you want to configure and refer to thefollowing instructions: • To view the hardware resources assigned to the serial port, clickon the Resource...

Chapter 2 PCI Serial Hardware Installation, Verification, and Configuration Serial Hardware and Software for Windows 2-8 ni.com Advanced Settings To view or change the advanced settings, click on the Advanced button. Figure 2-4 shows the Advanced Settings dialog box. Figure 2-4. Advanced Settings Di...

Chapter 2 PCI Serial Hardware Installation, Verification, and Configuration © National Instruments Corporation 2-9 Serial Hardware and Software for Windows Use FIFO Buffers FIFO buffers are present on the 16550-compatible UARTs—one for thetransmitter and one for the receiver. The Receive Buffer cont...

Chapter 2 PCI Serial Hardware Installation, Verification, and Configuration © National Instruments Corporation 2-13 Serial Hardware and Software for Windows Figure 2-6 shows the Device Manager tab for serial hardware that isinstalled properly. Figure 2-6. Device Manager Tab for PCI Serial Board Port...

Chapter 2 PCI Serial Hardware Installation, Verification, and Configuration Serial Hardware and Software for Windows 2-16 ni.com Port Settings Tab In the Port Settings tab, you can change any of the settings by clicking on the arrow button to the right of a field. When you click on the arrow button,...

Chapter 2 PCI Serial Hardware Installation, Verification, and Configuration © National Instruments Corporation 2-17 Serial Hardware and Software for Windows Advanced Port Settings To view or change the advanced port settings, click on the Advanced button. Figure 2-8 shows the Advanced Port Settings ...

Chapter 2 PCI Serial Hardware Installation, Verification, and Configuration Serial Hardware and Software for Windows 2-20 ni.com 7. Screw the PCI serial board mounting bracket to the back panelmounting rail of the computer. 8. Replace the cover. 9. Turn on your computer and start Windows NT. The har...

Chapter 2 PCI Serial Hardware Installation, Verification, and Configuration Serial Hardware and Software for Windows 2-22 ni.com General Port Settings The following sections describe the options you can set in the General Port Settings dialog box, shown in Figure 2-11. Figure 2-11. General Port Sett...

Chapter 2 PCI Serial Hardware Installation, Verification, and Configuration © National Instruments Corporation 2-23 Serial Hardware and Software for Windows FIFO Buffer Size The Receive FIFO size control sets the number of characters received in the FIFO before the PC is interrupted to read the data...

Chapter 3 PXI Serial Hardware Installation, Verification, and Configuration © National Instruments Corporation 3-11 Serial Hardware and Software for Windows 6. Screw the PXI serial board front panel to the front panel mounting railof the PXI or CompactPCI chassis. 7. Turn on your PXI or CompactPCI c...

Chapter 4 PCMCIA Serial Hardware Installation, Verification, and Configuration © National Instruments Corporation 4-9 Serial Hardware and Software for Windows 5. If you need to install your hardware, or if this is your first time to installthe NI-Serial software for Windows Me/9 x , skip to the next...

Chapter 4 PCMCIA Serial Hardware Installation, Verification, and Configuration © National Instruments Corporation 4-11 Serial Hardware and Software for Windows The two-port and four-port PCMCIA cards are configured as devicesbelonging to the “multi-function adapters” class. The multi-function parent...

Chapter 4 PCMCIA Serial Hardware Installation, Verification, and Configuration Serial Hardware and Software for Windows 4-12 ni.com Verify the Hardware Resources For every port of the newly installed serial interface, double-click onthe name of the serial port in the Device Manager. Then, click on t...

Chapter 4 PCMCIA Serial Hardware Installation, Verification, and Configuration Serial Hardware and Software for Windows 4-16 ni.com Note If you want your serial hardware ports to use the names COM1, COM2, COM3, or COM4, refer to the Common Questions section of Appendix D, Troubleshooting and Common ...

Chapter 4 PCMCIA Serial Hardware Installation, Verification, and Configuration © National Instruments Corporation 4-17 Serial Hardware and Software for Windows Install the PCMCIA Serial Hardware Complete the following steps to install the PCMCIA-232 or PCMCIA-485in your computer: 1. Shut down the co...

Chapter 4 PCMCIA Serial Hardware Installation, Verification, and Configuration Serial Hardware and Software for Windows 4-18 ni.com Select Resources for the PCMCIA Card Complete the following steps to select resources for your PCMCIA card. 1. Select Start»Settings»Control Panel . 2. Double-click on ...

Chapter 4 PCMCIA Serial Hardware Installation, Verification, and Configuration Serial Hardware and Software for Windows 4-20 ni.com 5. Click on Delete to remove hardware information about the port from Windows NT. You should do this before you physically remove yourPCMCIA card. 6. Click on Add to co...

Chapter 4 PCMCIA Serial Hardware Installation, Verification, and Configuration © National Instruments Corporation 4-21 Serial Hardware and Software for Windows FIFO Enabled You can use the FIFO Enabled control to enable or disable the FIFO buffers on the serial port. FIFO buffers are present on the1...

Chapter 5 AT Serial Hardware Installation, Verification, and Configuration Serial Hardware and Software for Windows 5-18 ni.com Use FIFO Buffers The FIFO buffer control is available by clicking on the Advanced button on the Port Settings tab. FIFO buffers are present on the 16550-compatible UARTs—on...

Chapter 5 AT Serial Hardware Installation, Verification, and Configuration © National Instruments Corporation 5-19 Serial Hardware and Software for Windows Install the NI-Serial Software Install the NI-Serial software for Windows NT before you install thehardware. Make sure that you have already ins...

Chapter 5 AT Serial Hardware Installation, Verification, and Configuration © National Instruments Corporation 5-25 Serial Hardware and Software for Windows AT Boards (Shared IRQ) Figure 5-12 shows the PnP Port Configuration dialog box for an AT-232/4 with shared IRQ. The dialog boxes for other share...

© National Instruments Corporation 6-1 Serial Hardware and Software for Windows 6 Using Your Serial Hardware This chapter describes how to set the hardware transceiver control mode foryour RS-485 interfaces and lists some general programming requirements. General Programming Requirements The NI-Seri...

Chapter 6 Using Your Serial Hardware Serial Hardware and Software for Windows 6-2 ni.com Note Signal names with an overscore, such as DTR, indicate that the signal is active low. Four-Wire Mode Use the four-wire mode for most full-duplex systems. In this mode, thetransmitter and receiver are always ...

Chapter 6 Using Your Serial Hardware © National Instruments Corporation 6-3 Serial Hardware and Software for Windows Two-Wire Mode: TXRDY Auto Control In this mode, the serial hardware transparently enables the transmitter andreceiver in a two-wire system. Use this mode to remove the burden of flowc...

© National Instruments Corporation A-1 Serial Hardware and Software for Windows A Connector Descriptions Connecting Cables For the PCMCIA serial cards and two-port PCI, PXI, and AT serial boards,you can use the standard DB-9 connector found on most serial cables.To use the DB-9 connector with the fo...

Appendix A Connector Descriptions © National Instruments Corporation A-3 Serial Hardware and Software for Windows Modular Jack Connector Figure A-2 and Table A-2 give the pin locations and descriptions of the10-position modular jack. Figure A-2. 10-Position Modular Jack Pin Locations Table A-2. 10-P...

© National Instruments Corporation B-1 Serial Hardware and Software for Windows B Serial Port Information This appendix describes the RS-232, RS-422, and RS-485 standards andexplains some of the issues involved with these types of serialcommunication. Table A-1 lists the features of the RS-232, RS-4...

Appendix B Serial Port Information © National Instruments Corporation B-3 Serial Hardware and Software for Windows Serial Communication Issues This section explains some serial communication issues, including duplexarchitectures, termination methods, bias resistors, and types of connectingequipment....

Appendix B Serial Port Information Serial Hardware and Software for Windows B-4 ni.com Figure B-1. Typical Full-Duplex System Half Duplex A typical half-duplex multidrop bus architecture also involves amaster-slave protocol. However, in a half-duplex system, all transmittersand receivers are connect...

Appendix B Serial Port Information © National Instruments Corporation B-5 Serial Hardware and Software for Windows Termination Because each differential pair of wires is a transmission line, you mustproperly terminate the line to prevent reflections. A common method ofterminating a two-wire multidro...

Appendix C Uninstalling the Hardware and Software Serial Hardware and Software for Windows C-2 ni.com PCI Hardware Windows 2000 Uninstall the Hardware Before you physically remove the serial hardware from your system, youmust remove the hardware information. To do so, complete the followingsteps: 1....

Appendix C Uninstalling the Hardware and Software © National Instruments Corporation C-3 Serial Hardware and Software for Windows 5. Choose the Uninstall... option. 6. In the Confirm Device Removal dialog box, click on the OK button to remove the hardware information, or click on the Cancel button t...

Appendix C Uninstalling the Hardware and Software Serial Hardware and Software for Windows C-4 ni.com 4. From the Multi-function adapters list, select the National Instruments interface that you want to uninstall, as shown inFigure C-2. Figure C-2. Selecting an Interface to Uninstall 5. Click on the...

Appendix C Uninstalling the Hardware and Software © National Instruments Corporation C-7 Serial Hardware and Software for Windows PXI Hardware Windows 2000 Uninstall the Hardware Before you physically remove the serial hardware from your system, youmust remove the hardware information. To do so, com...

Appendix C Uninstalling the Hardware and Software Serial Hardware and Software for Windows C-12 ni.com PCMCIA Hardware Windows 2000 Uninstall the Hardware Before you physically remove the serial hardware from your system, youmust remove the hardware information. To do so, complete the followingsteps...

Appendix C Uninstalling the Hardware and Software © National Instruments Corporation C-15 Serial Hardware and Software for Windows Uninstall the Software Before uninstalling the software, remove all serial port information fromthe Windows Me/9 x Device Manager, as described in the previous section. ...

Appendix C Uninstalling the Hardware and Software © National Instruments Corporation C-17 Serial Hardware and Software for Windows AT Hardware Windows 2000 Uninstall the Hardware Before you physically remove the serial hardware from your system, youmust remove the hardware information. To do so, com...

Appendix C Uninstalling the Hardware and Software Serial Hardware and Software for Windows C-20 ni.com Uninstall the Software Before uninstalling the software, remove all serial port information fromthe Windows Me/9 x Device Manager, as described in the previous section. You do not need to shut down...

Appendix D Troubleshooting and Common Questions © National Instruments Corporation D-3 Serial Hardware and Software for Windows 5. Choose the Uninstall... option. 6. In the Confirm Device Removal dialog box, click on the OK button to remove the hardware information, or click on the Cancel button to ...

Appendix D Troubleshooting and Common Questions Serial Hardware and Software for Windows D-4 ni.com Resolving Resource Conflicts with Legacy Boards Resource conflicts typically occur if your system contains legacy boardsthat use resources that are not reserved properly. If a resource conflictexists,...

Appendix D Troubleshooting and Common Questions Serial Hardware and Software for Windows D-6 ni.com Windows Me/9 x Freeing an Interrupt Request Level To free an interrupt request level for your serial port, you must disable thedevice that is using the interrupt request level. To view the system-wide...

Appendix D Troubleshooting and Common Questions © National Instruments Corporation D-7 Serial Hardware and Software for Windows Selecting Conflict-Free Resources PCI and PXI Boards When the Device Manager indicates a conflict with another device, you canusually correct the problem by manually select...

Appendix D Troubleshooting and Common Questions Serial Hardware and Software for Windows D-8 ni.com 6. Uncheck the Use automatic settings checkbox and click on the Change Setting button. If the system does not allow you to change the settings, select the configuration that gives you a conflict-free ...

Appendix D Troubleshooting and Common Questions © National Instruments Corporation D-9 Serial Hardware and Software for Windows Troubleshooting Diagnostic Messages This section lists possible error messages returned by the diagnostic utility,along with solutions. No National Instruments Serial Port ...

Appendix D Troubleshooting and Common Questions Serial Hardware and Software for Windows D-10 ni.com Diagnostic Utility Does Not Show All Installed Ports If the diagnostic utility does not show all the ports you installed, completethe following steps: 1. Verify the hardware resources, as follows: a....

Appendix D Troubleshooting and Common Questions © National Instruments Corporation D-13 Serial Hardware and Software for Windows AT and PCMCIA Hardware If Windows does not detect your serial hardware correctly, or you havebeen using your serial hardware with the default Windows Me/9 x serial driver ...

Appendix D Troubleshooting and Common Questions Serial Hardware and Software for Windows D-14 ni.com Figure D-3. Ports List in Device Manager 7. Click on the Remove button, and click on OK to confirm the removal of the serial hardware information. Repeat steps 6 and 7 until all serial board entries ...

Appendix D Troubleshooting and Common Questions © National Instruments Corporation D-17 Serial Hardware and Software for Windows Figure D-4. Multi-Function Adapter Class in the Device Manager How do I remove information about serial boards from the DeviceManager? Refer to the hardware uninstallation...

Appendix D Troubleshooting and Common Questions Serial Hardware and Software for Windows D-18 ni.com Windows NT Missing Serial Port in the niports List PCI and PXI Boards The serial configuration utility contains configuration information forserial hardware that is installed in your system. To start...

Appendix D Troubleshooting and Common Questions © National Instruments Corporation D-19 Serial Hardware and Software for Windows PCMCIA Boards The serial configuration utility niports contains configuration information for serial hardware it is aware of that is installed in your system. To start the...

© National Instruments Corporation E-1 Serial Hardware and Software for Windows E Specifications This appendix describes the characteristics of the serial hardware, theNI-Serial software, along with the recommended operating conditions. PCI Serial Hardware Two-Port Boards Dimensions....................

Appendix E Specifications for PCI Serial Hardware Serial Hardware and Software for Windows E-2 ni.com Power requirement (from PCI channel) PCI-485/2 +5 VDC ....................................800 mA typical 1300 mA maximum PCI-232/2 +5 VDC ....................................400 mA typical 650 mA ma...

Appendix E Specifications for PCI Serial Hardware Serial Hardware and Software for Windows E-4 ni.com Environmental Characteristics Operating environment Component temperature ..................0 to 70 °C Relative humidity ............................10 to 90%, noncondensing Storage environment Temp...

Appendix E Specifications for PXI Serial Hardware © National Instruments Corporation E-5 Serial Hardware and Software for Windows PXI Serial Hardware Two-Port Boards Dimensions............................................. 100 by 160 mm (3.94 by 6.30 in.) I/O connector...................................

Appendix E Specifications for PCMCIA Serial Hardware Serial Hardware and Software for Windows E-8 ni.com PCMCIA Serial Hardware Hardware Specifications Dimensions .............................................85.6 by 54.0 by 0.5 cm (3.370 by 2.126 by 0.197 in.) I/O connector ............................

Appendix E Specifications for AT Serial Hardware © National Instruments Corporation E-9 Serial Hardware and Software for Windows AT Serial Hardware Hardware Characteristics Two-Port AT Serial Boards (Nonisolated) Dimensions............................................. 10.67 by 16.51 cm (4.2 by 6.5 i...

© National Instruments Corporation F-1 Serial Hardware and Software for Windows F Technical Support Resources Web Support National Instruments Web support is your first stop for help in solvinginstallation, configuration, and application problems and questions. Onlineproblem-solving and diagnostic r...

Appendix F Technical Support Resources Serial Hardware and Software for Windows F-2 ni.com Worldwide Support National Instruments has offices located around the world to help addressyour support needs. You can access our branch office Web sites from theWorldwide Offices section of ni.com . Branch of...

© National Instruments Corporation G-1 Serial Hardware and Software for Windows Glossary Prefix Meaning Value p- pico- 10 – 12 n- nano- 10 – 9 µ- micro- 10 – 6 m- milli- 10 – 3 k- kilo- 10 3 M- mega- 10 6 G- giga- 10 9 t- tera- 10 12 ° degrees Ω ohms % percent A amperes ANSI American National Standa...

© National Instruments Corporation I-1 Serial Hardware and Software for Windows Index Numerics 100-pin connector, A-8 pin descriptions (table), A-9pin locations (figure), A-8 10-position modular jack, A-3 pin descriptions (table), A-3pin locations (figure), A-3 16-port boards specifications PCI, E-3...