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1 Introduction
IntroductionIntroduction
Introduction
Overview
Intellio - Intelligent Multiport Serial I/O Solutions
The Intellio C218Turbo is an 8 port high performance intelligent serial interface
board designed for 16-bit ISA bus. It is suitable for remote access, industrial control
and office automation, where an 386/486/Pentium PC system needs to communicate
with multiple modems, data acquisition equipment, serial printers and any other
serial devices through RS-232/RS-422/RS-485 interfaces.
One Intellio C218Turbo board provides 8 ports. Up to four boards of Intellio
C218Turbo may be used in the same system. See Section “Features” and Chapter
“Hardware installation” for details.
Low Host Processor Overhead
The Intellio C218Turbo is equipped with a high performance processor and 512KB
on-board memory to relieve the host’s CPU workload of all data and I/O handling
tasks. A buffer holds transmitted and received data to prevent data loss.
ASIC Design, Compact Size
The Intellio C218Turbo is also equipped with MOXA customer-designed ASIC
chip, which replaces lots of conventional IC and hence reduces the board to half-
size, increase the operation performance, and lower the failure rate of the board.