Buy StarTech.com 2 Port RS232 Mini PCI Express Serial Card with 16950 UART MPEX2S952 (Green)StarTech.com 2 Port RS232 Mini PCI Express Serial Card with 16950 UART MPEX2S952 (Green) Product Description:
- Native single chip design means up to 48% less load on your CPU which is critical for small embedded PCs that use low power, low MHz CPUs
- The smallest form factor available for internally adding serial ports to any embedded system
- Backed by a StarTech.com free lifetime warranty
- Compliant with PCI Express base specifications revision 1.1a
- High Performance Dual Channel Oxford 16950 UART
- 128-byte deep FIFO per transmitter and receiver
- Native single-Chip, single lane PCI Express
- Two high speed RS-232 serial ports with data transfer rate up to 460.8 Kbps
Product Description
The MPEX2S952 2-port Mini PCI Express serial card turns a mini-PCIe slot into two RS232 (DB9) serial ports - a cost-saving solution for adding legacy serial support for embedded systems that aren't normally compatible. The adapter card features a native PCI Express single chip design, which allows you to take advantage of full PCI Express capability by providing improved speed and reliability while reducing the load applied to the CPU by as much as 48% over conventional "bridge chip" serial cards .Designed and constructed to provide long-lasting durability and reliability, the 2-Port Mini PCI Express RS232 Serial Card is backed by our Lifetime Warranty and free lifetime technical support.
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2 of 2 people found the following review helpful.
Easy setup, works in Linux
By David Hendricks
I used the Startech series mini-PCIe to serial adapters for some machines at work. Setup is as easy as can be and it works great for debugging on laptops, netbooks, etc. It uses an Oxford UART and is supported in Linux. The only tricky part is that you need to tell your OS to route serial port access to MMIO rather than the usual legacy IO ports, but this is standard practice for all PCI <--> serial bridges.Here are some instructions I put together (for Chromium OS) to make this device print kernel messages and enable the login prompt:[...]
0 of 0 people found the following review helpful.Works as advertised
By Sonny
Ordered 3 of these, all of them worked as advertised, with 2 serial ports in mini-pci-e form factor which makes them useful for working on modern laptop or netbook type computers
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