Data Link CW232 User manual

Simple User's Manual Ver1.1 2006.3 DATA LINK Co., Ltd
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Introduction
Thank you for your choosing our RS232C/RS422 Analyzer 【CW232(V)/CW422】.
This manual will give you some notices about how to use this product.
Please read the content before you use the product.
※Please agree to omit (V) of CW232/V in the following sentences, and to unite it only to the mark
named CW232/CW422.
Package Contents
・Simple manual (this book)
・Install CD-ROM
・CW232/CW422 main body
・USB cable
※ Please contact our Sales Department though it descends to the packing of the product with
scrupulous care if any of the above items of the package is missing.
System Requirement
□Correspondence OS: Windows98SE / 2000 / XP
□Recommended environment:
CPU _______Intel Pentium / Celelon 800MHz or above
RAM ______256 MB or above
HDD_______300 MB free space or above
USB _______USB1.1 or above
Others______External Graphic Card instead of the built-in one is recommended.
When the application program is installed, the CD-ROM driver is necessary.
Notification
※ Memory and hard disk capacity necessary for operating the program might be different depending on
the system environment used.
※ It should be tested in the above-mentioned, recommended environment, otherwise it probably
exists some instance that operation cannot be completely guaranteed according to customer's
environment.
※ Various specifications of the product are subjected to variation without a previous notice. Please
acknowledge it beforehand.
※ Please not connect it to interfaces other than USB and RS232C/RS422.It cause damage and fire, etc.
※ Please not put it on moisture, dust, lamp soot or damp. It causes fire etc.
※ Please not use or leave it in the place of the high temperature like the place where direct
sunshine in close contact with the heater strikes. It causes fire etc.
※ Please not put the foreign body internally to remodel it.
It causes fire, the electric shock, and the injury.
※ Please not touch by a wet hand. Itcausestheelectricshock.
※ Please remove all cables at once and not go on using when generation of heat is felt or abnormality
such as smelling to strangeness is confirmed by any chance. Please contact the shop of purchase.

Installation Instruction
・Driver installation (Windows98)
After insert attached CD-ROM in PC, connect CW232/CW422 main body to the USB socket on the
PC by USB cable.
①When the following dialog box is displayed, click「Next」button.
② When「Please select the retrieval method」dialog box is displayed, please select「Search for the
best driver for your device.」and click「Next」button.
③ When the following dialog box is displayed, please select「CD-ROM driver」and click「Next」
button.

④「Search for the driver file for the following device. USB SerialAnalyzer」dialog box is displayed,
please click「Next」button.
⑤When「Windows has finished installing the software that your new hardware device requires」.
dialog box is displayed, please click「Finish」button and installation of driver finish.
・Driver installation (Windows XP)
After insert attached CD-ROM in PC, connect CW232/CW422 main body to the USB socket on the
PC by USB cable.
When the following dialog is displayed, select「Install the software automatically (Recommended)」
and click「Next」button. It will be up to「Completing the Found New Hardware Wizard」according
to the dialog message.
・Application program CW232/422 installation
When「Setup.exe」is double-clicked, the installation of the analyzer application program begins.
The starting screen of application installation

※You could select the setup language as the screen-shot. Click「OK」button and「Preparing to
install…」has finished. Then it will go to the next step.
When「Welcome to the InstallShield Wizard for CW232/422」dialog box is displayed, click
「Next」button.
In addition, the following dialog boxes are displayed.
① 「Please select a setup type」screen: ○Complete(C) is selected usually.
② 「Ready to install the program」the screen: When「Install (I)」was clicked, the installation
begins.
③ 「InstallShield Wizard completed」the screen: click「Finish (F)」and installation ends.
④ CW232/422 is started from a start menu or a desktop icon.

Start screen and names of all parts
①Menu：Include [File], [View], [Settings], and [Help].
②Tool bar：Create a new communication document.
Open a document you have saved. The file type is *.df.
Print out all the data on the screen.
Display the CW232/CW422 version information.
Begin the monitor.
End the monitor.
③The status bar: Connected state, the transmission rate and the version of CW232/422 F/W are displayed.
④The count bar: The number of data receptions from the equipment connected with the CH1 side is
displayed in TXD.
The number of data receptions from the equipment connected with the CH2 side is
displayed in RXD.
RTS (high) displays the frequency that RTS is changed from Busy into Ready.
RTS (below) displays the frequency that RTS is changed from Ready into Busy.
The change frequency of CTS - DSR (high and below) each control signal with a similar
possession is displayed.
ERR displays the error generation frequency of the parity error.
※Line: It becomes one unit of the display data. (line)

Connection Example
Please connect it according to the following procedures.
1) CW232/422 is connected between two equipment that monitor it as shown in the figure below.
2) To display the monitor data, CW232/422 is connected between WindowsPC with the USB cable.
3) On WindowsPC, the CW232/422 application program is started.
4) It is confirmed to recognize CW232/422 by the CW232/422 application program's normally
starting.
5) It is assumed the state that can be communicated by turning on the power supply of the device at
monitored both ends.
6) The CW232/422 application program is set, and it is assumed the state of the monitor beginning.
7) The communication that wants to be actually monitored between devices at both ends begins.
Attention:
※Please connect both sides in correct way.
※Please note the signal polarity of sufficiently when you connect CW422 main body to the
communication line.
※There is a possibility that it causes the breakdown like the damage of the equipment etc. when the
polarity of is connected by mistake.

Use Method
※After the equipment is connected like the example of the above-mentioned example,「Analyzer
application program CW232/422」installed in PC can be started.
① Setup the serial communication condition.
Menu[Settings]->[COM Settings]
Baud rate:
50/100/110/150/200/300/600/1200/2400/4800/9600/14400/19200/28800/38400/57600/76800/115200
※ Under baud rate whether data can be monitored depends on the processing performance of PC.
※ According to the processing performance of PC there is a possibility of defeating.
Data length: 7 or 8.
Parity bit: None, Odd or Even.
Stop bit: 1 or 2.
② Setup display mode. Menu[Settings]->[Display mode].

③ Click monitor beginning button . The data that flows on RS232C/RS422 is monitored.
The monitor data is preserved in the memory of PC.
Though the data that can be preserved depends on the image resolution etc. of PC, the
preservation for about 2048 Line is possible. Data that exceeds this is overwrited one by one at
the reception.
Attention: According to the image resolution of PC, usage condition of the memory and
above-mention Display Settings content, content of data does somewhat back and forth.
④ When the monitor stop button is clicked, the monitor stops.
･The monitor is stopped and the collection data is analyzed. The position where the monitor
data is displayed can be moved by the scroll bar.
･After the monitor stops, the collection data is analyzed. If data is indicated and clicked with
the mouse pointer, the position of specified data is displayed.
･The monitor data can be retrieved by menu [Settings] -> [Find].
⑤The file preservation of the collection data is possible by menu [File ]-> [Save].
⑥The collection data can be printed by menu [File] -> [Print].
⑦The collection data can be cleared by menu [File] -> [New].
↓The following dialog box is displayed.

When you preserve the data which is being monitored, it will ask you if the data will be saved or
not.
Click「Yes」to save data or click「No」to close without saving data.
The monitor beginning button is clicked again. The monitor is newly begun.
※ Please refer to an online manual for other use.
Error Message
If the main body of CW232/CW422 connection is not recognized when analyzer application
program CW232/CW422 is started, the following dialog box is displayed.
※When this message is displayed, analyzer application program CW232/422 is ended once.
Please confirm that CW232/CW422 and PC are correctly connected with an attached USB
cable.
Analyzer application program CW232/422 is started again.
･After starting analyzer application CW232/422, the application and CW232/CW422 cannot
communicate because the USB cable comes off, the following dialog box is displayed.
※Analyzer application CW232/422 monitor stops when this message is displayed. Confirm that
CW232/CW422 and PC are correctly connected with an attached USB cable.
When you click the monitor beginning button , the monitor is restarted.

･CW232/CW422 receives the power supply when connected to PC by an attached USB cable and
starts.
At this time, 2-3 second later, LED in the upper part of the main body becomes a green light
after red lights(It is normal.). CW232/CW422 is thought of abnormity when it is not lighting
such LED. Please not go on using and contact our user support section.
This LED blinks in green while monitoring it normally.
When the parity error is detected during monitoring, LED becomes blinking red.

Externals chat

Guarantee regulations
1. Our product is shipped through an in-house inspection of our regulations, and I will repair free
of charge when it is broken down by any chance in the guaranteed term. Please open the
packing at once after it is accepted and examine the product.
The guaranteed term of the Data Link product is one year from our consignment day.
Because the product control goes with Serial No, the written guarantee is not being appended.
Please inform me of product Serial No when it is broken down. I will limit it to the repair of the
hardware part of this product.
2. Our company assumes the trouble indirectly to cause it by the breakdown of this product or the
use directly with the one that it doesn't assume the responsibility.
3. In the following cases, it becomes a repair for a fee during the guaranteed term.
⑴ Breakdown and damage that is caused in the transportation, fall, moving, and impact, etc.
⑵ Mistake in use or remodeling, breakdown because of repair and damage.
⑶ It breaks down or it damages it to fires such as a fire, the earthquake, and lightning.
⑷ Breakdown and damage that originates in equipment outside our product connected with our
product.
4. In the following cases, it is not possible to repair even for a fee.
When the repair price exceeds a new product price by the state of the breakdown like the
PCB substrate total loss and IC total loss, etc.
5. I will not do the business trip repair at the product breakdown. It becomes a repair of
bringing in to our company or the shop.
6. The content of the above-mentioned guarantee is effective only in Japan.
※Described brand name and company name are the trademarks or registered trademarks of each company.
※The content of this manual is the one as of July, 2004, and the specification and the design, etc. might change
without a previous notice for the quality improvement. Please contact a technical inquiry of this product with
our user support section.
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