Sealevel releases 16-port PCI Express board for RS-232
Martin Rowe, Senior Technical Editor -- Test & Measurement World, 8/10/2007 8:28:00 AM
Proving that the serial port lives, Sealevel Systems has released a 16-port RS-232 interface board for the PCI Express bus. The COMM+16.PCIe board communicates at speeds up to 460.8 kbps on each serial port. A 128-byte first-in-first-out (FIFO) buffer on each port cuts data errors when operating at those high (for serial) data rates.
With the COMM+16.PCIe board, you can control data-acquisition instruments, multimeters, oscilloscopes, scanners, bar-code readers, and anything else with a serial port. The board uses one PCI Express data lane but is compatible with slots that use more PCI Express lanes. The board complements Sealevel's USB-to-serial and Ethernet-to-serial converters.
Price: $679. Sealevel Systems, www.sealevel.com/subcategories.asp?subcat_id=271.
