
98, ME, NT, 2000 and XP may limit your IRQ selection without aftermarket drivers. This is
usually not required unless all IRQ’s supported by the OS are already allocated.
Note
PC/104 CPU manufacturers vary in implementation of the interrupt interface. Most use pull-
ups on the interrupts. This allows a board to drive low or tristate float high the interrupt lines
preventing damage if two boards conflict. The PCFW-104 uses the tristate scheme. On a few
motherboards the manufacturers use pulldown resistors. The PCFW will not request a inter-
rupt in this scheme since the tristated line cannot float high. In this case a pad is provided
for installation of a pullup resisitor, R8. The user should install a 1K 0805 resistor on this pad.
Should this not work the largest value possible should be used to prevent excessive current
draw. 250 ohms is a recommended minimum
Address Select Jumpers, JP2
For flexibility with most SW and Development libraries this unit will support any valid address
between 0x000-0x007 and 0x7F8-0x7FF.
Most applications will use one of the common serial port addresses. The most common are:
COM1 = 3F8, IRQ4, COM2 = 2F8, IRQ3 COM3 = 3E8, IRQ4 COM4 = 2E8, IRQ3
Most software development libraries for serial communication support non-standard address
and/or IRQ assignments.
An excellent library is the COMM/DRV LIB from Willies Computer Software at http://www.
wcscnet.com/.
The default address is 3E8 which is COM3. To select the address you desire place jumpers on
JP2 in the following order.
From left to right. Placing a jumper sets the address bit to 0 or low.
Addressing Examples
Hex A10 A9 A8 A7 A6 A5 A4 A3
2F8 X X
300 X X X X X X
310 X X X X X
3E8 X X
3F8 X
7F8
X = jumper installed meaning bit = 0.
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