2: Description and Specifications
This chapter summarizes the XPort AR device server’s features and basic information needed before getting started.
Features
The XPort AR is designed with additional features above and beyond the original XPort, including:
The Evolution OS operating system
Two full serial ports with all hardware handshaking signals or three serial ports without handshaking signals
11 configurable pins
Supports fully compliant PoE designs by using PoE compliant magnetics and passing through both the used and unused pairs
Increased memory: 4MB Flash and 1.25MB RAM
Hardware capability in place to allow future software support for:
−I2C Bus
−SPI Bus
−CAN Bus
−USB
−External interrupts, including one
−Timer input
Applications
The XPort AR device server connects serial devices such as those listed below to Ethernet networks using the IP protocol family.
ATM machines
CNC controllers
Data collection devices
Universal Power Supply (UPS) management units
Telecommunications equipment
Data display devices
Security alarms and access control devices
Handheld instruments
Modems
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