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Page 2 Copyright © 2009 Vision Systems. All rights reserved. Reproduction without permission is prohib- ited. Trademarks VScom is a trademark of Vision Systems GmbH. All other trademarks and brands are property of their rightful owners. Disclaimer Vision Systems reserves the right to make changes and improvements to its product without pro- viding notice.
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Page 4: List Of Figures
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Page 5: Overview
2 Introduction 1 Overview VScom provides several models of serial port cards for PCI Express bus, also named PCIe. This modern serial bus is the successor of several parallel PCI variants. It is a fast bus, and the size of bus connectors can be very small. Since mainboard design with PCI Express is more easy than with fast parallel PCI, the classic PCI slots will vanish from modern systems in the future.
Page 6: Product Speciﬁcations
For transmit and receive each Table 1: Features of VScom PCIex models 2.2.1 VScom 100E PCIex The VScom 100E PCIex card features one serial port, available via a PCI Express slot. Figure 1: VScom 100E PCIex Serial Ports RS 232...
Page 7: Vscom 200E Pciex
2 Introduction 2.2.2 VScom 200E PCIex The VScom 200E PCIex card features two serial ports, available via a PCI Express slot. Both serial ports share one common connector DB25-male, an adapter cable is included. For signal assignment see 4.2. Figure 2: VScom 200E PCIex A model for Low Proﬁle cases is available.
Page 8: Vscom 400E Pciex
2 Introduction 2.2.3 VScom 400E PCIex The VScom 400E PCIex card features four serial ports, available via a PCI Express slot. All four serial ports share one common connector DB44-female, an adapter cable is included. For signal assignment see 4.3. Figure 3: VScom 400E PCIex A model for Low Proﬁle cases is available.
Page 9: Vscom 800E Pciex
2 Introduction 2.2.4 VScom 800E PCIex The VScom 800E PCIex card features eight serial ports, available via a PCI Express slot. All eight serial ports share one common connector DB62-female. For signal assignment see 4.4. An adapter cable to eight times DB9-male is not provided, customers can choose from several connection options.
Page 10: About This Manual
2 Introduction 2.4 About this Manual This manual describes the hardware of VScom PCIex Cards, as well as signal assignments. There is no conﬁguration option for customers. The part describing the driver is generic for all VScom PCI cards, the same in all manuals. It will describe options not available on the VScom PCIex Cards, mainly parallel ports.
Page 11: Windows Driver
3 Windows Driver 3 Windows Driver This chapter of the manual documents the drivers for Windows Operating Systems. The driver is basically the same for all the VScom PCI cards available, independent of the model. As one consequence there is only one driver for download, linked to from all the products. It does not matter which link you use.
Page 12: Install In Windows 7
3 Windows Driver 5. Click on “Next”. 6. From the listed box, choose “Search for the best driver for your device”. 7. Click on “Next”. 8. If not done already, insert the driver CD into the CD-ROM drive. 9. From the generated choices, choose “CD-ROM drive”. 10.
Page 13: Windows 7 Installation
3 Windows Driver Figure 5: Windows 7 Installation 2. The software requests a location to install the required ﬁles. Figure 6: Driver Installation Target Conﬁrm the location. 3. The installation proceeds. February 2010 VScom PCIex Card User Manual...
Page 14: Verify The Installation
3 Windows Driver Figure 7: Windows 7 Installing Drivers When this is completed, the hardware is recognized by Windows 7, and the drivers are loaded. This may take some time, especially for many serial ports. It is also possible to ﬁrst run the Installation program. This will install the drivers in the same way, but they are not loaded.
Page 15: Removing The Software In Windows 9X, 2000, Xp And Vista
3 Windows Driver the expected ports ’Com3’ and ’Com4’ do not appear in the Device Manager. This is neither an error of the card or the driver, it is just how Windows manages port numbers. Windows maintains an internal data base of port numbers which have been assigned to some hardware in the past.
Page 16: Windows 7 Driver Removal
3 Windows Driver Figure 8: Windows 7 Driver Removal 2. Short time later the removal is done. February 2010 VScom PCIex Card User Manual...
Page 17: Card And Port Conﬁguration
3 Windows Driver Figure 9: Windows 7 Drivers removed 3.2 Card and Port Conﬁguration Each card is organized in two types of components in the system. One type is for the card itself, i.e. the basic PCI interface. The other type is for the ports. This is reﬂected in Windows and the driver software.
Page 18: Cards And Ports In Device Manager
3 Windows Driver Figure 10: Cards and Ports in Device Manager Shown here are the data of some serial and parallel VScom cards in the Device Manager. There are many cards installed simultaneously, just to show this is possible. The 800EH is displayed as two items in ‘Multi-port serial adapters’. Because the H-series cards support two functions each card is listed as two devices.
Page 19: Card Advanced Settings
3 Windows Driver 3.2.2 Card Advanced Settings Open the properties of a card via the Device Manager, and select the “Advanced” tab. These are the advanced settings for a VScom card, a VScom 210L UPCI in this case. Figure 11: Card Advanced Properties This panel displays the ports of the card, and their assigned names in Windows.
Page 20: Ports Conﬁguration
3 Windows Driver The COM- or LPT-assignments of each port may be changed from the initial values after installing the drivers. To change the assignment just double-click the entry in the “Advanced” panel. Figure 12: Port Renaming Then this panel is opened for renaming a port. In some cases it may be useful to change the name from COM (or LPT) to something else.
Page 21: Vscom Standard Port Settings
3 Windows Driver VScom Standard Port Settings Figure 13: Standard Settings This panel is well known to most users, it is similar to the panel used by the Microsoft driver for Com1/2. February 2010 VScom PCIex Card User Manual...
Page 22: Vscom Advanced Port Settings
3 Windows Driver VScom Advanced Port Settings The Microsoft driver for Com1/2 provides some control of FIFO conﬁguration. The Advanced Settings are for similar purposes, but with extended functions. Figure 14: Advanced Settings 16C950 The VScom H- and E-series cards use a 16C950 UART to transmit data. This chip and the driver can emulate a variety of other UARTS.
Page 23 3 Windows Driver Receive Trigger Level The time when the UART generates an interrupt for received data. It deﬁnes the amount of data necessary to do this. With the 16950 you may select any value from 1 to 128. Other types allow only certain values. Higher values increase performance, lower values decrease possibility for loss of data.
Page 24: Advanced Settings 16C550A
3 Windows Driver Figure 15: Advanced Settings 16C550A The VScom L-series cards have a 16C550A compatible UART for the serial ports. The Receive Trigger Level only prvides the four steps 1, 4, 8 and 14. There is no Transmit Trigger Level, hence this slider is disabled.
Page 25 3 Windows Driver special situations, though in in some of those it is even better to just change the conﬁguration of the other parameters. 8250 The FIFO is totally switched oﬀ, as are all other options. The real 8250 UART had a speed limitation of 57600 bps, this is maintained by software here.
Page 26: Enhanced Software Settings
3 Windows Driver Enhanced Software Settings Figure 17: Software Settings This is a special feature of the VScom driver. In older driver versions it was simply called Over- speed. Overspeed opens the possibility to get other speeds than the application requested for. The appli- cation requests a certain speed;...
Page 27: Automatic Software Flow Control
3 Windows Driver • Wrong: Overspeed is set to 2. The application requests 38400, the result is 76800. Even when this is below the maximum speed of the modem, it does not recognize this speed in many cases. Operation is not possible. •...
Page 28 3 Windows Driver Transmit control Enable This enables the automatic control when sending data. If the receiving device sends a stop (Xoﬀ) signal, transmission is halted. When a continue (Xon) signal is received, transmission continues. This reduces the probability of sending too much data to the receiver.
Page 29: Automatic Hardware Flow Control By Rts/Cts
3 Windows Driver Automatic Hardware Flow Control by RTS/CTS Figure 19: Auto RTS/CTS This panel conﬁgures the On-Chip RTS/CTS Hardware Flow Control provided by the UART. The function of this panel is similar to the software Flow control panel. However, the stop and start signals are provided by the RTS and CTS signals.
Page 30: Automatic Hardware Flow Control By Dtr/Dsr
3 Windows Driver Automatic Hardware Flow Control by DTR/DSR Figure 20: Auto DTR/DSR This panel selects the function of DTR/DSR Hardware Flow control. This function of the UART oﬀers more options. Control kind How DTR is intended to operate. Disabled: No Flow control for receive. Triggered: Flow control similar to RTS Enable.
Page 31: Windows Nt 4.0
3 Windows Driver DTR oﬀ Compare the slider of RTS oﬀ. DSR enable Enables transmission control via the DSR input. RS 485 very often uses a shared medium (one pair of wires) to send and receive RS 485 operation data. This requires the ability to disable the transmission unit. It must be oﬀ to receive data, and must be switched on when transmitting.
Page 32: Installing In Windows Nt 4.0
3 Windows Driver 3.3.1 Installing in Windows NT 4.0 You need to have administrator privileges to install any new drivers under Windows NT 4.0. To install the driver or update the conﬁguration please log on to Windows NT 4.0 as “Administrator” or ask your system administrator to install the VScom PCIex Card and driver.
Page 33: Conﬁguration Via Control Panel
3 Windows Driver Conﬁguration via Control Panel The installation program also adds the “VScom PCI” applet to the Control Panel of Windows NT. Open it, to get access again to the conﬁguration panel (ﬁgure 22). System Conﬁguration This panel opens when a new hardware is detected, or when the conﬁgu- ration is explicitly opened via the control panel.
Page 34: Uninstall Drivers From Windows Nt
3 Windows Driver Uninstall Drivers from Windows NT To remove installed ﬁles and Windows registry informa- tion 1. Go to the Control Panel. 2. Open the “Add/Remove programs” applet. 3. Select “Vscom drivers for ...”. 4. Click “Remove”. 5. “VScom install” requests to conﬁrm the uninstall, Click “Yes”. 6.
Page 35: Connector Deﬁnitions
4 Connector Deﬁnitions 4 Connector Deﬁnitions The VScom PCIex cards provide various connectors for the signals of the serial ports. Either DB9 male connectors are directly available on the card, or a common connector for all ports is mounted on the bracket. This way each model only needs one slot to ﬁt in. The signal assignment for RS 232 on DB9 male connectors is deﬁned by the term “RS 232”...
Page 36: Db25 Male
4 Connector Deﬁnitions 4.2 DB25 male This common connector is for two serial ports. So each signal name appears twice, it will have an index like (1) for the ﬁrst serial port of the card. The serial ports are neither isolated nor isolated from each other, so GND is common and has no index.
Page 37: Db44 Female
4 Connector Deﬁnitions 4.3 DB44 female This common connector is for four serial ports. So each signal name appears four times, it will have an index like (3) for the third serial port of the card. The serial ports are neither isolated nor isolated from each other, so GND is common and has no index.
Page 38: Db62 Female
4 Connector Deﬁnitions 4.4 DB62 female This connector is used for many of VScom products with eight serial ports. So customers can easily change from an old product for Universal PCI to PCI Express, without worrying about the external components. The connector is common, so each signal name appears eight times, it will have an index like (3) for the third serial port of the card.
Page 39: Db25 Male Rs 232
4 Connector Deﬁnitions 4.5 DB25 male RS 232 This type of connector is not available on any card, however there are adapter options providing such. The pins not mentioned are a no-connect on these adapters, or speciﬁed in the adapters documentation.
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5 History 5 History March 2009 First Release of this manual February 2010 Installation in Windows 7 added February 2010 VScom PCIex Card User Manual...

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