DLV11-F asynchronous serial line interface

DLV11-F M8028 board etch revision D

The DLV11-F asynchronous serial line interface card (M8028) was a QBUS peripheral for the PDP-11 series of computers which provided an asynchronous serial line on a single dual-width card.

It provided both EIA RS-232 (with vestigial modem control), and active or passive 20 mA connectivity. Baud rates from 50 to 19,200 were available; receive and transmit can be set independently via configuration jumpers, or can be set via the registers, if desired (although not input and output independently; either transmit only, or both).

Line connection was via 40-pin Berg connector headers on the top edge of the card, using the standard DEC asynchronous serial line pinout.

Configuration was via wire-wrap jumpers.

Programing interface

Like the ancestral KL11, the DLV11 has 2 device registers for the receive side (one Control and Status Register - CSR - and one data buffer register), and similarly, two for the transmit side. Each line has two interrupt vectors - again, one receive, and one transmit.

For the PDP-11 main console (which is always a KL11/DL11 compatible device), the standard is that 0777560 is the base address (so the receiver registers are 0777560-2, and the transmitter are 0777564-6), and 060 is the base vector. It can be set to halt the CPU when a 'break' is seen; it can also send a 'break'.

The first line after the console is always assigned the address 0776500, and vector 0300. Additional lines are assigned addresses and vectors immediately following, for DL11's #1-#16 (i.e. 0776500-676 and 0300-0476).

Layout

The 'Revison C' and later PCB layouts are significantly different from the earlier ones; it is easy to recognize these versions visually, as the large UART chip is parallel to the long axis of the card. These versions are not covered in most DLV11-F documentation; they can be found in the "Microcomputer Interfaces Handbook" (1980), on pg. 207.

See also

• DLV11 asynchronous serial line interface
• DLV11-E asynchronous serial line interface
• DLV11-J asynchronous serial line interface

Further reading

• DLV11-F Replacement for the DLV11, MicroNote #046A

External links

• DLV11-E and DLV11-F asynchronous line interface user's manual (EK-DLV11-OP-001)
• Microcomputer Interfaces Handbook - the DLV11-F, Revisions C and up, is covered on pp. 207
• DLV11-F Field Maintenance Print Set (MP00461)