Quatech MPA-200/300 - Manuals

TABLE OF CONTENTS 37 13 SPECIFICATIONS . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 33 12 DEFINITION OF INTERFACE SIGNALS . . . . . . . . . . . 32 11.2 Null-Modem Cables . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 32 11.1 MPA-200 and EIA-530 Compati...

1 INTRODUCTION The Quatech MPA-200/300 is a single channel, synchronous serial communica-tion port for systems utilizing the architecture of the IBM AT personal or compati-ble computers. The MPA-200 is RS-422 compatible. The MPA-300 has RS-485 data line drivers and receivers in place of theMPA-200's...

2 HARDWARE INSTALLATION If the default address and interrupt settings are sufficient, the MPA-200 can bequickly installed and put to use. The factory default settings are listed below inTable 1. Table 1 Default Board Configuration DMA/DRQ 1 DMA/DRQ 3 IRQ 5 300 hex RxDMA TxDMA Interrupt Address 1. If...

3 SCC GENERAL INFORMATION The Serial Communications Controller (SCC) is a dual channel, multi-protocoldata communications peripheral. The MPA-200 provides a single channel forcommunications, however, to provide full DMA capabilities, both channels of theSCC can be utilized. The SCC can be software c...

3.1 Accessing the registers The mode of communication desired is established and monitored through the bitvalues of the internal read and write registers. The register set of the SCC includes16 write registers and 9 read registers. These registers only occupy four addresslocations, which start at th...

3.2 Baud Rate Generator Programming The baud rate generator (hereafter referred to as the BRG) of the SCC consists ofa 16-bit down counter, two 8-bit time constant registers, and an output divide-by-two. The time constant for the BRG is programmed into WR12 (least significantbyte) and WR13 (most sig...

3.3 SCC Data Encoding Methods The SCC provides four different data encoding methods, selected by bits D6 andD5 in WR10. These four include NRZ, NRZI, FM1 and FM0. The SCC alsofeatures a digital phase-locked loop (DPLL) that can be programmed to operate inNRZI or FM mode. Also, the SCC contains two f...

4 JUMPER BLOCK CONFIGURATIONS The MPA-200 utilizes seven user-selectable jumper blocks , that allow the usermore flexibility when configuring the board. The following section explains thefunction of each of the jumper blocks on the MPA-200. 4.1 J4 - Interrupt Configuration J4 is a three pin jumper w...

5&10 IRQ15 4&9 IRQ14 3&8 IRQ12 2&7 IRQ11 1&6 IRQ10 4.3 J10 - Transmit DMA Channel Selection J10 selects the DMA channel to be used for transmit DMA. Three channels (1 - 3)are available on the MPA-200 for DMA. When selecting a DMA channel, boththe DMA acknowledge (DACK) and the DM...

Table 10 Jumper block J7 connections 5&6 Receiver controlled by Comm. Register 4&5 Receiver Always Enabled 2&3 Transmitter controlled by Comm. Register 1&2 Transmitter Always Enabled Pins Driver Control Function 4.6 J8 - SYNCA to RLEN control J8 controls the signal path from the RLEN...

5 ADDRESSING The MPA-200 occupies a continuous 8 byte block of I/O addresses. For example,if the base address is set to 300H, then the MPA-200 will occupy addresslocations 300H-307H. The base address of the MPA-200 may be set to any of thefirst 64 Kbytes (0 - FFFFH) of available I/O address space th...

6 INTERRUPTS The MPA-200 supports eleven interrupt levels: IRQ2 -7, IRQ10 - 12, and IRQ14- 15. The interrupt level is selected through jumper blocks J5 and J6 ( seeJUMPER BLOCK CONFIGURATIONS on page 11). The interrupt source isselected by bits D4 and D5 of the configuration register. The MPA-200 ha...

7 DIRECT MEMORY ACCESS Direct Memory Access (DMA) is a way of directly transferring data to and frommemory, resulting in high data transfer rates with very low CPU overhead. TheMPA-200 allows the user to perform DMA transfers when data is received(DMARRQ) or when data is transmitted (DMATRQ). Three ...

of the SCC, a DMA request is generated. The DMA controller then writes the datafrom the SCC into memory. Programming for DMA request on both transmit and receive is simply a combina-tion of the two. There are three possible configurations that can be used, depend-ing on the sources selected. The fir...

Figure 3 Block diagram of DMA on MPA-200. W/REQA DTR/REQA W/REQB SCC DMATRQ DRMRRQ J10 J11 PAL 7.1 Using Terminal Count to Generate an Interrupt The MPA-200 allows the option of generating an interrupt whenever the TerminalCount (TC) signal is asserted. Terminal Count is an indicator generated by th...

8 CONFIGURATION REGISTER The MPA-200 is equipped with an onboard register used for configuring informa-tion such as DMA enables, DMA sources, interrupt enables, and interrupt sources.Below is a detailed description of the configuration register. The address of thisregister is Base+5. Table 13 detail...

9 COMMUNICATIONS REGISTER The MPA-200 is equipped with an onboard communications register which givesthe user options pertaining to the clocks and testing. The user can specify thesource and type of clock to be transmitted or received. Test mode bits pertain onlyto the DTE versions and can be ignore...

10 DTE / DCE Configuration The MPA-200 can be purchased in either Data Terminal Equipment (DTE) orData Communications Equipment (DCE) configuration. The two configurationsshare some important features, but have significant differences which need to bementioned. Both the DTE and DCE configurations al...

10.1 DTE Configuration The control signals that the DTE can generate are the Request To Send (RTS) andData Terminal Ready (DTR). It can receive the signals Carrier Detect (CD), Clearto Send (CTS), and Data Set Ready (DSR). All of the control signals arecontrolled through channel A of the SCC, with t...

10.2 DCE Configuration On the MPA-200, the difference between the DTE and DCE signals is that, withthe exception of a few control signals, the pins used for signal transmission on theDTE are used for signal reception on the DCE and vice versa. For example, pin 2of the DCE connector is received data,...

Figure 3 DCE Clock Configuration TRXCA RTXCA RTXCB RRCLK RTCLK TRXCB RCKEN TTCLK TCKEN (RCLK) (TCLK) The Test Mode (TM) signal is always in the OFF condition and cannot be changedby the user. The Local Loopback (LL) and Remote Loopback (RL) test signals arenot implemented on the DCE. Table 16 summar...

11 EXTERNAL CONNECTIONS When configured as a DTE, the MPA-200 uses a D-25 short body male connector(labeled CN2). When configured as a DCE, the MPA-200 uses a D-25 long bodyfemale connector (labeled CN1). Table 15 and Table 16 describe the pin outdefinitions for both connectors and Figure 6 and Figu...

12 DEFINITION OF INTERFACE SIGNALS CIRCUIT AB - SIGNAL GROUND Ÿ CONNECTOR NOTATION: DGND Ÿ DIRECTION: Not applicableThis conductor directly connects the DTE circuit ground to theDCE circuit ground. CIRCUIT CC - DATA SET READY (DSR) Ÿ CONNECTOR NOTATION: +DSR,-DSR Ÿ DIRECTION: From DCEThis signal ind...

CIRCUIT TM - TEST MODE (TM) Ÿ CONNECTOR NOTATION: TEST MODE Ÿ DIRECTION: From DCEThis signal indicates to the DTE that the DCE is in a test condition.The DCE generates this signal when it has received a localloopback or remote loopback signal from the DTE. Quatech Inc., MPA-200/300 Manual 36

13 SPECIFICATIONS Bus interface: IBM AT 16-bit bus Controller: Serial Communications Controller, 6 MHz (determined by user, typically an Intel 82530). Physical Dimensions: 7.65” x 4.2” Interface: DTE: male D-25 connector DCE: female D-25 connector Transmit drivers: EIA-422: MC3487 or compatible EIA-...