Serial I/O Boards

General Standards Corporation is a leading supplier of a wide range of high speed Serial I/O boards for embedded applications on several form factors/buses, and for many operating systems. See our selection tables below.

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  • Serial Mode Protocols include Asynchronous, Bisync, SDLC, HDLC, IEEE 802.3, Synchronous Telemetry, Simple Clock/Data ("-SYNC" product line), Di-phase and SPI Interface.
  • Transceiver support RS485, RS422 (V.10), RS232 (V.28), RS423, RS530, as well as other software selectable mixed protocol modes
  • Up to Eight Independent Serial Channels per Board
  • Synchronous Serial Data Rates up to 10 Mbits/sec
  • Asynchronous Serial Data Rates up to 1 Mbits/sec
  • Deep Transmit and Receive FIFOs up to 128K
  • PMC and cPCI rear I/O support
  • Custom Protocols Available

Form Factors:
  • CCVPX
  • PCI-Express
  • PXI
  • PMC
  • PC/104-Plus
  • PCI
  • cPCI
  • CCPMC
  • PC/104-Express
  • PCI-X
  • cPCI-X
  • XMC

Ask about other form factors.

Software Drivers:
  • Windows
  • VxWorks
  • QNX
  • Linux
  • MathWorks
  • Solaris
  • Labview
  • xPC Target

Ask about other device drivers.





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Serial I/O Selection Tables

Available Form Factor Model Series & Transceiver Type Applications Channels Max Synchronous
Data Speed		 Max Asynchronous
Data Speed		 Key Features
PCIe4* SIO8BX2V High Speed Data Acquisition and Control, High-speed Video and Data Capture, Development and Research, Raw Serial Data Capture 8 10 Mbits/sec sync 1 M bits/sec async 8 channel, high-speed I/O
Serial mode protocols includes Asynch, Bisync, SDLC, HDLC, and Nine-Bit.
Multi-protocol transceivers support RS422, RS232, RS530.
Up to 32K Deep FIFO Buffer
PCIe4* SIO8BX2V-FASYNC High Speed Asynchronous Serial Data Appplications including Serial Data Capture and Monitoring 8 N/A 10Mbits/sec async Eight Channel Fast Async Serial I/O PCIe Card Featuring RS422/485 transceivers, up to 10Mbps, and 32K byte FIFO Buffers (512K total)
PCIe4* SIO8BX2V-SYNC High Speed Data Acquisition and Control
High-speed Video and Data Capture
Development and Research		 8 10 Mbits/sec sync N/A Eight Independent Synchronous Serial Channels , Fast RS422/RS485 Differential Cable Transceivers Provide Data Rate up to 10Mbps, Software Selectable 120 ohm Termination Resistors for RS485
PMC66*
PCI66
cPCI66
PC104+
PCIe		 SIO4BXR LAN/WAN Networking
Telecommunications
Serial Interface		 4 10 M bits/sec sync 1 M bits/sec async; 4 channel, high-speed I/O
Rear I/O
Serial mode protocols includes Asynch, Bisync, SDLC, HDLC, and Nine-Bit.
Multi-protocol transceivers support RS422, RS423, RS232, RS530.
Up to 32K Deep FIFO Buffer
PMC66*
PCI66
cPCI66
PC104+
PCIe		 SIO4BXR-SYNC LAN/WAN Networking
Telecommunications
Serial Interface		 4 10 M bits/sec sync N/A 4 channel, high-speed I/O
Rear I/O
Simple clock/data synchronous
Multi-protocol transceivers support RS422, RS423, RS232, RS530.
Up to 32K Deep FIFO Buffer
PMC66*
PCI66
cPCI66
PC104+
PCIe		 SIO4BXR-SPI Serial Peripheral Interface devices 4 3M bits/sec sync N/A 4 channel, high-speed I/O supports Serial Peripheral Interface (SPI) protocol
Up to 32K Deep FIFO Buffer
PCIe* SIO4BX2 LAN/WAN Networking
Telecommunications
Serial Interface		 4 10 M bits/sec sync 1 M bits/sec async; 4 channel, high-speed I/O
Serial mode protocols includes Asynch, Bisync, SDLC, HDLC, and Nine-Bit.
Multi-protocol transceivers support RS422, RS485, RS232
Up to 32K Deep FIFO Buffer
PCIe* SIO4BX2-SYNC LAN/WAN Networking
Telecommunications
Serial Interface		 4 10 M bits/sec sync N/A 4 channel, high-speed I/O
Simple clock/data synchronous
Multi-protocol transceivers support RS422, RS485, RS232
Up to 32K Deep FIFO Buffer
XMC
 SIO4BX LAN/WAN Networking
Telecommunications
Serial Interface		 4 10 M bits/sec sync 1 M bits/sec async; 4 channel, high-speed I/O
Serial mode protocols includes Asynch, Bisync, SDLC, HDLC, and Nine-Bit.
Multi-protocol transceivers support RS422, RS423, RS232, RS530.
Up to 32K Deep FIFO Buffer
XMC
 SIO4BX-SYNC LAN/WAN Networking
Telecommunications
Serial Interface		 4 10 M bits/sec sync --------- 4 channel, high-speed I/O
Simple clock/data synchronous
Multi-protocol transceivers support RS422, RS423, RS232, RS530.
Up to 32K Deep FIFO Buffer
PCI66 SIO4B LAN/WAN Networking
Telecommunications
Serial Interface		 4 10 M bits/sec sync --------- 4 channel, high-speed I/O
Serial mode protocols includes Asynch, Bisync, SDLC, HDLC, and Nine-Bit.
Up to 32K Deep FIFO Buffer
PCI66 SIO4B-SYNC LAN/WAN Networking
Telecommunications
Serial Interface		 4 10 M bits/sec sync --------- 4 channel, high-speed I/O
Simple clock/data synchronous
Up to 32K Deep FIFO Buffer


Serial I/O Legacy Products

Available Form Factor Model Series & Transceiver Type Applications Channels Max Synchronous
Data Speed		 Max Asynchronous
Data Speed		 Key Features
PCI*

 SIO8BXS High Speed Data Acquisition and Control
High-speed Video and Data Capture
Development and Research		 8 10 M bits/sec sync 1 M bits/sec async 8 channel, high-speed I/O
Serial mode protocols includes Asynch, Bisync, SDLC, HDLC, and Nine-Bit.
Multi-protocol transceivers support RS422, RS423, RS232, RS530.
Up to 32K Deep FIFO Buffer
PCI*
 SIO8BXS-SYNC High Speed Data Acquisition and Control
High-speed Video and Data Capture
Development and Research
Raw Serial Data Capture		 8 10 M bits/sec sync N/A Eight Channel Synchronous Serial To Parallel Controller with Software Configurable Cable Tranceivers.
Multi-protocol transceivers support RS422, RS423, RS232, RS530.
Up to 32K Deep FIFO Buffer
PCIe4* SIO8BX2 --------- 8 10 Mbits/sec sync 1 M bits/sec async 8 channel, high-speed I/O
Serial mode protocols includes Asynch, Bisync, SDLC, HDLC, and Nine-Bit.
Multi-protocol transceivers support RS422, RS423, RS232, RS530.
Up to 32K Deep FIFO Buffer
PCIe4* SIO8BX2-SYNC --------- 8 10 Mbits/sec sync N/A Eight Independent Synchronous Serial Channels , Fast RS422/RS485 Differential Cable Transceivers Provide Data Rate up to 10Mbps, Software Selectable 120O Termination Resistors for RS485
cPCI* SIO4ARHM LAN/WAN Networking
Telecommunications
Serial Interface		 4 10 M bits/sec sync 1 M bits/sec async cPCI with Rear I/O PMC Expnasion Slot
PC104+ SIO4BX LAN/WAN Networking
Telecommunications
Serial Interface		 4 10 M bits/sec sync 1 M bits/sec async; 4 channel, high-speed I/O
Serial mode protocols includes Asynch, Bisync, SDLC, HDLC, and Nine-Bit.
Multi-protocol transceivers support RS422, RS423, RS232, RS530.
Up to 32K Deep FIFO Buffer
PC104+ SIO4BX-SYNC LAN/WAN Networking
Telecommunications
Serial Interface		 4 10 M bits/sec sync --------- 4 channel, high-speed I/O
Simple clock/data synchronous
Multi-protocol transceivers support RS422, RS423, RS232, RS530.
Up to 32K Deep FIFO Buffer
PC104+
SIO4B LAN/WAN Networking
Telecommunications
Serial Interface		 4 10 M bits/sec sync --------- 4 channel, high-speed I/O
Serial mode protocols includes Asynch, Bisync, SDLC, HDLC, and Nine-Bit.
Up to 32K Deep FIFO Buffer
PC104+
SIO4B-SYNC LAN/WAN Networking
Telecommunications
Serial Interface		 4 10 M bits/sec sync --------- 4 channel, high-speed I/O
Simple clock/data synchronous
Up to 32K Deep FIFO Buffer
PMC*
PCI*
cPCI
PC104+
PCIe		 HPDI32A-ASYNC (RS-485/422) High Speed Data Acquisition and Control
High-speed Video and Data Capture
Development and Research		 1 N/A 5 M bits/sec async High-speed async, deep FIFO buffering
PCI*
PMC*
SIO4 High Speed Data Acquisition and Control
High-speed Video and Data Capture
Development and Research		 4 10 M bits/sec sync 1 M bits/sec async 4 channel, high-speed I/O
Serial mode protocols includes Asynch, Bisync, SDLC, HDLC, and Nine-Bit.
Available RS422 or RS232
Up to 32K Deep FIFO Buffer
PMC
PCI
cPCI
 SIO4BX LAN/WAN Networking
Telecommunications
Serial Interface		 4 10 M bits/sec sync 1 M bits/sec async; 4 channel, high-speed I/O.
PMC
PCI
cPCI
 SIO4BX-SYNC LAN/WAN Networking
Telecommunications
Serial Interface		 4 10 M bits/sec sync 1 M bits/sec async; 4 channel, high-speed I/O.
PCI*
 SIO4B LAN/WAN Networking
Telecommunications
Serial Interface		 4 10 M bits/sec sync 1 M bits/sec async; 4 channel, high-speed I/O. Also rear panel I/O
PCI* SIO4B-SYNC LAN/WAN Networking
Telecommunications
Serial Interface		 4 10 M bits/sec sync --------- 4 QUAD channel synchronous serial to parallel controller with optional deep transmit and receive FIFOs.
PMC* SIO4AR-SYNC LAN/WAN Networking
Telecommunications
Serial Interface		 4 8 M bits/sec sync N/A PMC Rear I/O
VME* SIO4A (RS-485/422) LAN/WAN Networking
Telecommunications
Serial Interface		 4 10 M bits/sec sync 1 M bits/sec async 4 channel, high-speed I/O

PMC*		 SIO4AR LAN/WAN Networking
Telecommunications
Serial Interface		 4 10 M bits/sec sync 1 M bits/sec async; PMC Rear I/O. Also rear panel I/O
PMC
PCI*
cPCI
PC104+
PCIe		 HPDI32A-DIPHASE Telemetry
Telecommunications
Serial Interface		 1 10 M bits/sec --------- High-speed di-phase I/O, deep FIFO buffering


*True Form Factor.
Legacy Products are not recommended for new designs.

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