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Introduction

The PCIDIO 24H/48H/96H series products are general purpose digital I/O cards. This series includes three cards:

PCIDIO 24H: 24-CH DIO card

PCIDIO 48H: 48-CH DIO card

PCIDIO 96H: 96-CH DIO card

The 48H series products are multi -function digital I/O boards used for industrial PC with a PCI bus. The cards are plug-and-play, therefore it is not necessary to set any jumpers for configuration of I/O address or interrupt resources.

PCIDIO 48H and PCIDIO 96H are 48-channel and 96-channel DIO cards respectively. PCIDIO 24H is a reduced version of PCIDIO 48H, all the functions are exactly the same as PCIDIO 48H except there are 24 channels only.

The PCIDIO 48H emulates two industry standard 8255 Programmable

Peripheral Interface (PPI) chips operated under mode zero configuration. The PCIDIO 96H emulates four PPI chips. These two cards are compatible

not only on hardware connectors but also on software programming.

Every PPI connector offers has 3 ports: PA, PB, and PC. The PC can also be subdivided into 2 nibble-wide ( 4-bit) ports - PC Upper and PC Low. Each connector is corresponding to one PPI chip with 24 DIO points.

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