PIO/PEX-D24/D56 Series User Manual (Ver.3.1, Mar. 2015, PMH-005-31)
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1. Introduction
The PIO-D24U/D56U and PEX-D24/D56 card is the new generation product that
ICP DAS provides to meet RoHS compliance requirement. The new PIO-
D24U/D56U card is designed as a drop-in replacement for the PIO-D24/D56,
and users can replace the PIO-D24/D56 by the PIO-D24U/D56U and PEX-
D24/D56 directly without software/driver modification.
The PIO-D24U/D56U universal PCI card supports 3.3 V/5 V PCI bus while the
PEX-D24/D56 supports PCI Express bus. The PIO-D24/D56 and PEX-D24/D56
series consists of three 8-bit bi-direction ports. The 8-bit ports are named as port
A (PA), port B (PB) and port C (PC) respectively. All ports are configured as
inputs upon power-up or reset. In addition, the PIO-D56/D56U and PEX-D56
provides additional 16-bit digital inputs and 16-bit digital outputs.
The PIO-D24U/D56U and PEX-D24/D56 has a Card ID switch with which users
can recognize the board by the ID via software when using two or more PIO-
D24U/56U and PEX-D24/D56 cards in one computer.
These cards support various OS versions, such as Linux, DOS, Windows
98/NT/2000 and 32/64-bit Windows 8/7/Vista/2003/XP. DLL and Active X control
together with various language sample program based on Turbo C++, Borland
c++, Microsoft C++, Visual C++, Borland Delphi, Borland C++ Builder, Visual
Basic, C#.NET, Visual Basic.NET and LabVIEW are provided in order to help
users to quickly and easily develop their own applications.