V+ Functionality

All of the following functionality of the SYSIO is supported, with complete backward compatibility:

• Floppy drive
• Hard drive
• Serial lines
• Fast and standard DIO
• Clock chip and NVRAM

All three serial ports on the front panel of each AWC board (i.e., the main processor board and each auxiliary processor board) can be used. The correspondence with the ports on an 040 or 030 CPU is as follows:

Table 6-2. LOCAL.SERIAL Port Comparison

V+ Reference	AWC	040/030	Protocol
LOCAL.SERIAL:1	Top	Upper	RS-422/485
LOCAL.SERIAL:2	Middle	Lower	RS-232
LOCAL.SERIAL:3	Bottom	(N.A.)	RS-232

NOTE: CONFIG_C version 12.4 edit A (or later) must be used to configure the third local serial port. If the system disk has been configured with a third serial port for any processor board, and an 040 or 030 processor board is used in that position, the configuration of the "extra" serial port is ignored.

Use of the following system options (and others) is not affected in any way by the type of main processor board being used with V+ version 12.4:

• Adept or non-Adept robots
• The AIM system
• The AdeptVision option
• The AdeptWindows PC user interface
• The AdeptNet options
• The Manual Control Pendant
• AIO boards
• DIO boards
• Third-party boards

Ethernet communication using either 10BASE-T or 100BASE-T is supported by the AWC board. The system automatically detects the speed being used on the Ethernet cable.