User's Manual

USB Readers
and Wiegand
Converters
The pcProx USB keystroke device operates
in two
primary
modes:
USB keyboard.
It
reads
the
card data and sends
it
as keystrokes as
if the
user typed
the ID
data on a
keyboard.
Under
the
application programmer interface
(API)
defined
in the
pcProx SDK.
When it reads
card data,
the
active application receives
the
entire card
data.
Note:
The pcProx ExpressCard operates as a USB
r
eader
.
RS-232 Readers and
Converters
The RS-232, Ethernet,
or virtual COM port
device operates
in two
primary
modes:
1.
ASCII
output
device.
In this
mode
the
user card data
is
read and sent as a decimal
or
hexadecimal number
in
ASCII
characters.
2. API defined
in the
pcProx SDK. The device attaches
to
a computer serial
port. When it reads
card data,
the
active application receives
the
entire card
data.
Once
the
configuration settings are correctly configured and
written to
flash
memory
,
the
device
can
immediately be
deployed.
Note:
The pcProx PCMCIA operates as an RS-232
r
eader
.
Minimum
System
R
equir
ements
Minimum
S
y
s
t
em
Requirements
HARDWARE
Pentium class
PC
MEMORY 32 MB RAM
DISK 25 MB
hard disk
space
I
/O
1
available RS-232
or
USB
P
or
t
Operating
S
y
s
t
em
Any
operating system
that supports
a USB keyboard
including
Microsoft
Windows 2000®,
XP®, Vista®, 7®, Server
200
3®,
Server 2008®, Linux, Macintosh®. Can be used
for keystroke
applications
Note:
The software
does
not
perform any data validation checking. The data must be known before
it is
read
to
verify
its
v
alidit
y
.