Communication Through The [I/Q Out] Port; D General Description; D About The Guid; D About The Endpoint - Icom IC-R8600 Reference Manual

I/Q SIGNAL

■ Communication through the [I/Q OUT] port

D General description

I/Q signals and IC-R8600 control commands are exchanged through the [I/Q OUT] port on the IC-R8600.
USB cable
[I/Q OUT] port
IC-R8600
The communications are done through WinUSB. To use WinUSB, you need to install the driver (USB I/Q
Package for HDSDR) that can be downloaded from Icom web site.
After the driver is installed, you can receive I/Q signals and control the IC-R8600 through the WinUSB, using
an I/Q receive software (user supplied).
To use WinUSB, you need to set the driver's GUID and appropriate "endpoint." Refer to the next topic for
details about them.

D About the GUID

The GUID, that is needed to open the [I/Q OUT] port, is shown below.
68D5F5EE - B0E7 - 49FD - A0D5 - 5B10842656B7

D About the endpoint

The IC-R8600 has 3 endpoints. Each endpoint is reserved to receive I/Q data, to send control commands to
the IC-R8600 and to receive the acknowledgement from the IC-R8600.
Endpoint for I/Q data
[I/Q OUT] port
Endpoint for control
commands input
Endpoint for control
commands output
IC-R8600
Details of each endpoint:
(Hexadecimal)
I/Q Data
IC-R8600 → PC
Control command
IC-R8600 → PC
Control Command
PC → IC-R8600
*IN: Data from IC-R8600 to PC, OUT: Data from PC to IC-R8600
WinUSB
Driver
Pipe for control commands input
Pipe for control commands output
Address
Direction*
86 IN
88 IN
02 OUT
Appication
(User supplied)
PC
Pipe for I/Q data
Endpoint Number
(Hexadecimal)
06
08
02
3
[USB] port
PC
Transfer Type
Bulk transfer
Bulk transfer
Bulk transfer