Summary of Contents for Trinamic USB-2-485
- Page 1 USB-2-485 Interface Converter Version: 1.00 April 16 , 2006 Trinamic Motion Control GmbH & Co. KG Sternstraße 67 D - 20357 Hamburg, Germany Phone +49-40-51 48 06 - 0 FAX: +49-40-51 48 06 - 60 http://www.trinamic.com...
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Page 2: Table Of Contents
USB ................................ 7 2.3.2 RS485 ..............................7 2.3.3 Housing ..............................7 Software Installation ............................. 8 Trinamic Motion Control GmbH & Co KG Sternstraße 67 D – 20357 Hamburg, Germany Phone +49-40-51 48 06 - 0 FAX: +49-40-51 48 06 - 60 http://www.trinamic.com... -
Page 3: Introduction
USB-2-485 Interface Converter 1 Introduction The USB-2-485 device is an USB to RS485 interface converter. It adds a standard 2-wire half-duplex RS485 bus interface to computers with USB interface. The USB interface of the device is USB 2.0 and USB 1.1 compatible. The RS485 interface supports all common data rates up to 3Mbit/s. -
Page 4: The Usb-2-485 Hardware
2 The USB-2-485 Hardware 2.1 Overview The USB-2-485 device has two connectors, a USB type B connector for connecting the device to a PC and a 9-pin D-SUB male connector for connecting it to a 2-wire half-duplex RS485 bus. RS485... -
Page 5: Rs485
The 2-wire RS485 half-duplex interface of the USB-2-485 device supports all common data rates up to 3Mbit/s. The two differential signals are available on pin 2 and pin 7 of the 9-pin D-SUB connector of the USB-2-485 device (table 2). - Page 6 Figure 2: Internal resistor network connected to RS485 interface and location of resistors (pcb top view) With the USB-2-485 there is no local loopback. That is, the RS485 receiver is switched off as long as the RS485 transmitter is active.
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Page 7: Technical Data
USB-2-485 Interface Converter 2.3 Technical Data 2.3.1 USB • Connection to USB 1.1 or USB 2.0 hosts possible (a cable is supplied with the device) • USB full speed device (12MBit/s) • Bus powered (no extra power supply needed) 2.3.2 RS485 •... -
Page 8: Software Installation
The USB-2-485 is hot-pluggable. There is no need to power-off the PC while plugging in or removing the USB-2- 485 device. When you plug in the USB-2-485 device for the first time you will be prompted for a suitable device driver. - Page 9 USB-2-485 Interface Converter A dedicated driver for the USB-2-485 can be found on the CD (TMC Technical Library) supplied with certain versions of the USB-2-485 device or can be downloaded from our web-site (www.trinamic.com). On the CD the driver files are located in the sub-directory “\systems\USB-2-485”. Please add this path as shown below and continue: If Windows XP is configured to warn when unsigned drivers are about to be installed a warning will be displayed.
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Page 10: Sternstraße
“Hardware” tab and click “Device Manager”). The new device will appear as an additional COM port with the label “USB serial port”: Now, you can access your USB-2-485 device as a standard COM port. E.g. you may use the terminal program HyperTerminal supplied with Windows in order to send and receive data over the RS485 interface.
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