11/13/2022 0 Comments Icom ci v interface![]() Both of the output signals have a second grounded emitter transistor to provide a second inversion. The USB to CAT / CI-V adapter is my own design and uses an FT230X UART chip to go from USB to logic level UART signals. Yaesu and Kenwood use mini-DIN connectors, so a different cable will have to be made to drive one of these radios. The ICOM radio that I am testing with has a 3.5mm connector for the CI-V signal, making the cable simple. Rev 1.1 of the boards have already been sent out to OSHPark. The first rev PCB that I did had the tip and ring pins interchanged, hence the blue wires. One thing to be aware of is that some radios use considerably higher voltage for keying the microphone, so a relay should be used to drive such a radio.īoth of the output connectors are just 3.5mm stereo sockets. This logical convention works with existing software (WSJT-X), so it is apparently standard. Diode D3 prevents the MIC-KEY signal on the collector of Q3 from being pulled below ground. DIODE D4 prevents the base of Q3 from being pulled below ground. The operation of the MIC-KEY is similar, the RTS signal (pin 7) drives the base of another NPN transistor (Q3) to pull the MIC-KEY signal to ground when the RTS pin goes high. These extra handshake signal connections may help keep the UART happy but are probably not necessary. The RTS signal (pin 7) is also driving the CTS input (pin 8). The DTR signal (pin 4) on the 9 pin connector is also used to pull up the DSR (pin 6) and DCD (pin 1) on the D connector. The RXD signal never goes negative like a real RS232 signal, but it works as is. Q2's output is also pulled up to about +5V and the resulting signal goes to the RXD pin on the 9 pin connector. Responses from the radio go through Q2 to be inverted. When the host is not actively talking to the radio, the COM IO signal idles in the high state. The COM_IO signal is pulled up to about 5V by the voltage supplied by the DTR pin. ![]() D2 prevents the TXD signal from driving the base of Q1 below ground. It also logically inverts the RS232 levels before applying them to the COM_IO signal to the radio. The TXD signal (pin 3) drives an NPN transistor (Q1) to get the "open collector" aspect of the output side of the bus. The normal output voltage range for current USB to RS232 adaptors seems to be about -6V to +6V. The diode D1 is used to prevent the positive power supply from going negative if the DTR signal goes low. ![]() Looking at the schematic for the 9 Pin RS232 to CAT / CI-V interface, you can see that the board is powered from pin 4 (DTR), so DTR must be set high for the board to operate. Both interfaces use a similar physical layer design. The name CAT seems to be in wider usage for this purpose. ICOM calls their communication system CI-V and Yeasu calls it CAT. The design for the RS232 to CI-V adapter was shamelessly copied from, thanks! ![]()
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