michael brown wrote:

> I suppose that if you'd cared to go check out their carrier/dev board

I did, as I said in an earlier post (but used the wrong name of it).

> (and it's documentation) for the chip, you'd see that they clearly
> call the DB9 connector an RS-232 interface.

They don't.
They say it's a "RS-232 serial port DB-9 Female", witch
is correct. Thay don't say anything about the electrical
interface. Again, just as I said in an earlier post.

> Funny, I can't seem to locate any
> level convertors on the board or in the schematic for it.  Is that
> perfectly valid as well?

Well, you have to add *something* by our own, right ?
At least if you'd like to have a "real" RS232 interface.

http://www.basicx.com/Products/Parts/bx24devboard2.gif

Calles it "RS-232 serial port DB-9 Female", or, in other words,
specifing the *physical* connector. I'v seen that connector
beeing used for many different things, not only RS232 interfaces.

http://www.basicx.com/Products/Parts/bx24devboardsch.gif

Says nothing about the electrical specifications of the
"serial" interface at all. Well, there is something that *looks*
as an "RS-232 serial port DB-9 Female", if that's what you
thought about.


I think they have carefully avoided to say that they
actualy *has* an "RS232 interface", which they hasn't,
I *do* agree on that ! I also do agree that it's a
bad design...

Jan-Erik.

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