● Completely configurable, asynchronous serial port (ICOM-2S has two ports).
● Opto-Isolated against noisy environments
● Support conventional High-speed RS-422, and Multi-drop RS-485
● Can be wired for 2 or 4 wire RS-422/485 communications
● Support RS-485 handshaking on-board without special drivers to support Windows and non-DOS programs
● Built-in support for local echo, line termination, and line bias supplies
● Supports extended AT interrupts
● LED status monitors on transmit and receive lines for troubleshooting
● Equipment monitoring
● Environmental measurements
● Embedded data acquisition
● Education/Laboratory
● Industrial Automation
Drivers for various operating systems are also provided, including active support for Windows XP -> 10 — all in both 32-bit and 64-bit flavors, and including consumer, server, and embedded varieties — as well as the 2.6 and newer Linux kernels and recent OSX / macOS versions. Many products continue to ship with driver support for Windows 95, 98, Me, NT4, and Windows 2000, but support for these operating systems is considered deprecated.
