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PCMCIA Serial card (RS232)

Part: ANPCM232
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If you have already tried using a low-cost PCMCIA serial card you most likely have already experienced either a computer freeze, driver errors, being unable to communicate with your serial device or even a BSoD.
With this being said, unless you invest in a serial PCI card with a quality processor and chipset, this is what you can expect from a low-cost PCMCIA serial card.
The reason is that most low-cost serial PCI cards are designed with a low-cost processor which again has low-cost poorly written drivers, which obviously results in heavy headaches for the user.

The PCMCIA serial card we present here uses a quality processor (OXCB950) from Oxford Semiconductor which provides superior performance and reliability at unmatched data transfer rates.
The card adds one standard high-speed serial RS232 COM port to your laptop which will allow you to connect to most types of serial RS232 devices.

This ruggedized model has a standard DB9 connector with female stand-off nuts for securing a serial cable.
It inserts into a Type II PCMCIA socket (most laptops come with this type of socket) which makes this PCMCIA serial card ideal for most office, commercial and industrial applications such as printers, modems, digital cameras, scanners, GPS devices, PLC's.
(Click here for PLC compability) and other industrial devices.

Why is this PCMCIA serial card better than other cards?
This particular serial PCMCIA card is very easy to configure since once installed it shows up under Windows Device Manager (unlike many others) as one additional COM port.

However, what makes this PCMCIA serial card superior to other cards is that it is designed around the Oxford processor as mentioned earlier but it also has a SP3243 serial transceiver chip from Sipex/Exar which creates a synergy of compatibility between the two chips.
These processors has shown to be compatible with the majority of serial RS232 devices on the market with a minimal error rate, which means that there is a very good chance that this particular PCMCIA serial card will work flawless with your device. You simply avoid the troubles with computer freeze, lost data and bad connections which are some of the problems with so many of the low-cost PCMCIA serial cards.

Specifications
  • PCMCIA serial Card (RS232) compatible with: Windows 95, 98, ME, 2000, XP 32/64, Vista 32/64, Win 7 32/64, Linux
  • Dual-channel high performance UART
  • Enhanced bi-directional serial PCMCIA card controller
  • 16-byte TX/RX FIFO for each UART channel
  • Port type: 1 x standard 9-pin D-Sub male
  • Supports re-map function for legacy ports
  • Compatible with 16C550 industrial standard UART
  • Hardware/software flow control
  • Baud rates up to 1Mbps
  • Supports 5-, 6-, 7- and 8-bit data framing
  • Supports even, odd, no parity and 1, 2 stop bit
  • 16-bit pc compliant (PCMCIA Revision 7.1)
  • IRQ sharing feature eliminates IRQ conflicts.
  • Compatible with various types of serial PCMCIA devices.
  • Very low power consumption 3.3v/5v operation voltage.
  • FCC and CE certified.
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Date Added: 05/15/2012 by Richard McArdle
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Works great for Windows 7 attaching to Cisco Networking equipment. I just stepped on the old one and...

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Date Added: 08/27/2011 by James Thompson
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works fine, but the housing where the db9 connector is is a little bulky, not that it matters much u...

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Date Added: 08/22/2011 by Kathleen Mabry
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We use this card in combination with the rs232 isolator and both have performed flawless with our wa...

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Date Added: 07/12/2011 by Jake Norman
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Im using this serial pcmcia card with my old windows xp laptop. connecting to a temp sensor over rs2...

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Date Added: 06/03/2011 by Shawn Johnson
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Easy to install and works fine with Windows 7. Also, I want to thank usconverters.co-m for providing...

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Date Added: 07/12/2010 by Mike Johnson
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Works fine with windows 7 and my mallagan gps. Pretty easy to install the drivers and get the card w...

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The PCMCIA Serial card (RS232) - Generally
The PCMCIA RS232 serial card is often used on older computers which does not have the new standard called ExpressCard. A PCMCIA serial card is an easy and convenient way to create a COM port in a computer which does not have any COM ports. When shopping for a RS232 serial PCMCIA card it is important that you choose a card which is suitable and compatible for your device and computer. Most importantly is the PCMCIA cards processor chip. There are many models and brands of PCMCIA serial card chips; we recommend a chip from either Oxford Semiconductors or Moschip, these PCMCIA serial card processor chips have proven effective in most applications. The typical PCMCIA serial card contains one serial COM port however some cards also comes in multi-port versions.


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