Specifications

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Introduction
The DataFire
®
SYNC 2000 adapter is an intelligent, high performance
synchronous communications adapter that is available in versions for
PCI bus and Compact PCI (cPCI) bus-compatible systems. The basic
design comes with a Motorola MPC860 PowerQUICC
™
(Quad Integrated
Communications Controller), with an integrated PowerPC
™
RISC
processor providing four SCCs on the four-port adapter and two SCCs on
the two-port adapter.
DataFire SYNC 2000 adapters offer a Universal Interface Bus (UIB)
capable of supporting a different interface on each port. The UIB
automatically configures the electrical interface of a port based on the type
of Digi cable connected to the port. That is, you can select an interface type
for a port just by connecting the appropriate cable between the adapter and
the peripheral device. You can use any combination of interface types to
connect up to two peripherals to the two-port version, or up to four
peripherals to the four-port version.
Features
The DataFire SYNC 2000 adapter has the following features:
• High-speed synchronous communications ports
• Automatic cable detection
• SurgeBlock
™
surge protection
• All major electrical interfaces are available as UIB cable options,
including X.21, V.28 (V.24)/EIA-232, V.35/RS-449, V.36, EIA-422,
and EIA-530
• Available with an optional PowerPC 603 processor, 4 megabytes of
RAM, and Frame Relay or X.25 public data network protocols
• The DataFire SYNC 2000 adapter has gained homologation
acceptance for most European countries
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