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- From: Lawrence Kirby <fred@genesis.demon.co.uk>
- Newsgroups: comp.dcom.modems
- Subject: Re: Multiple serial-port PC-board - Recommendations
- Date: Tue, 16 Apr 96 13:05:26 GMT
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- In article <4krk80$3fh@dos.canit.se> o.bodin@canit.se "rjan Bodin" writes:
-
- >Hi All!
- >I wonder if anyone please could help me with the following problem:
- >
- >I need a PC board with (at least) 8 RS 232 serial port for a
- >application where i get around 60kbps to the ordinary com1and want to
- >distribute it to 8 port with a rate of around 10 kbps each (the data
- >flow will later on be demuxed).
-
- There are lots of intelligent serial card products around that can do this
- (e.g. from Digiboard, Equinox, Specialix). I strongly suggest you put the
- input channel on one of the 'intelligent' ports and forget COM1 altogether -
- it should be much more reliable and put less load on your main CPU. For
- 60kbps you'll mse likely have a choice between 57600 or 115200bps and
- for 10Kbps the choice will be 9600bps or 19200bps.
-
- >I want the 8 ports to share one IRQ
-
- The more modern boards tend not to use any IRQs at all since the
- intelligence and buffering on the card itself means there is no critical
- time to service.
-
- >and SW (or hardware) for buffering the data (preferably around a
- >couple of tens kbyte for each port).
-
- You may not get more than a couple of K buffering. Generally that's enough -
- if you need more on output then the application can provide it. On input
- you'll only get guaranteed reliability by using flow control and the
- intelligent cards deal with that automatically. You'll only have trouble
- of the remote end doesn't support flow control. There again if you were
- considering COM1 this probably isn't a problem!
-
- >Maybe this is not the proper newsgroup for this kind of problem, but
- >it is the most related one i have access to (i think).
-
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- Lawrence Kirby | fred@genesis.demon.co.uk
- Wilts, England | 70734.126@compuserve.com
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