Owner's manual

56 Overview

The QPC841 Quad SDI card mounts in standard backplane slots and

its serial interface connectors are located on the card front panels. A

list of the modules that can be mounted in is given in the section on the

individual card.

Uses

Examples of asynchronous devices that can be connected to the system

processor using the NT8D41BA QSDI paddle board and the QPC841

Quad SDI card are:

•

an administration and maintenance terminal

• a background terminal for use in a hotel/motel

• the Automatic Call Distribution (ACD) feature

• the Call Detail Recording (CDR) feature

Features

The NT8D41 QSDI paddle board and the QPC841 QSDI card provide the

following features:

• asynchronous serial data interface ports, each supporting

— RS-232-C interface

—

8–bit ASCII data with parity and stop bit

— Asynchronous, start-stop operation

—

Data rates of 150, 300, 600, 1200, 2400, 4800, and 9600 baud

—

Data terminal equipment (DTE) emulation mode

—

Data communication equipment (DCE) emulation mode

•

enable/disable switch and LED

•

input/output (I/O) device address selectable by on-board switches.

Speciﬁcations

This section lists the specifications shared by all of the SDI cards. See

the appropriate section in this document for information specific to any

particular card.

Power consumption

The SDI cards obtain their power directly from the module backplane.

Power consumption for each of the cards is shown in Table 9 "Power

consumption" (page 57).

Nortel Communication Server 1000

Circuit Card Reference

NN43001-311 02.06 Standard

27 August 2008