Startech 8 Port PCIe RS232 Serial Board

The PEX8S952 8 Port Native PCI Express RS232 Serial Adapter Card with 16950 UART allows you to turn a PCI Express slot into eight RS232 (DB9) serial connections using the included breakout cable.

The serial card is based on a native chip design, that allows you to harness the full capability of PCI Express (PCIe) - providing optimum reliability and speed, and reducing the load applied to the CPU by as much as 48% over conventional serial cards that use a PCI to PCIe bridge.

The RS232 Serial Adapter Card is compatible with a broad range of operating systems, including Windows®, Linux, and MAC OS for easy integration into mixed environments.

Backed by a StarTech.com Lifetime warranty and free lifetime technical support.

• 8 high speed RS-232 serial ports with data transfer rate up to 460.8 Kbps
• Breakout dongle cable included
• 128-byte deep FIFO per transmitter and receiver
• Automated in-band software flow control using programmable Xon/Xoff in both directions
• Automated out-of-band hardware flow control using Tx/Rx/RTS/CTS/DSR/DTR/DCD/RI/GND
• Compliant with PCI Express base specifications revision 1.0a
• High Performance Dual Channel Oxford 950 UART
• Native single-Chip, single lane PCI Express
• High Performance Dual Channel Oxford 950 UART provides reliability, speed and broad OS compatibility
• Native single-Chip, single lane PCI Express design reduces overall load on the CPU
• The included breakout cable helps to reduce cluttered connections

• Self service automated machines and kiosks to control serial devices such as scales, touchscreens, magnetic card readers, bar code scanners, receipt printers, label printers
• POS retail applications in grocery stores, and any other retail store to control keyboards, cash drawers, receipt printers, card readers / card swipes, scales, and elevated displays on poles
• Bank teller workstations in either full profile or low profile versions to control their serial devices such as cash drawers, card readers / card swipes, printers, keypads / pin pads, pen pads
• Standard ATM automated teller machines to control keypads, receipt printer, card readers / card swipes, touchscreen LCD's, camera control, etc.
• Used to control multiple surveillance / security cameras in a parking structure, office building, etc.

• 8 Port Serial Card
• 8 Port DB9 Break-out cable
• Driver CD
• Instruction Manual

PCI ExpressCards RS-232

PCI Express (PCIe) is a serial I/O technology that has been designed to deliver significantly more data than the existing PCI standard, with a transfer rate of 2.5Gb/s in each direction per lane. PCIe is expected to replace PCI on all new personal computers to the end of this year. Initially, personal computers will have both PCI and PCIe slots available. Drivers for all popular operating systems including Windows 7.