The software will monitor, data-log, plot the eight locations generating eight data sets. For general info. The advantage the Dolphin board has over other multi-serial port cards is each serial port IRQ can be set to any IRQ between 3 and 15. The address of each port can be set from COM 1 to COM 8. Base COM address can be set to one of four base addresses.
Serial ports can share the same IRQs or be independent.
Any port can be disabled. Two of these cards will provide a system with eight serial ports. Software on the bare-bones PC can autoload from the autoexec.bat, and could include all the various features and options mentioned throughout this web site. The standard Aware RM software can use any of the above mentioned IRQs. For more info.