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grifo® Windows Terminal Z80 family

English PDF User Manual of GWT80.

Ver. 5.00 - Rel. March 09, 2005.

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GENERAL INFORMATION

The GWT80 (Grifo® Windows Terminal Z80 family) is used with GDOS 80 operating system, which is executed on Abaco® target cards provided of Z80 microprocessors and derivates. Thanks to a standard PC, it can completely manages the develop and debug phase of the user application program in a fast, efficient and comfortable way.

In detail any GWT80 users can use the PC as a develop system for the target card. The available operations start with the transfer of developed program from PC to target card, and go on with the test of program, directly on selected hardware. Then the user carry on by detecting and solving any errors (sintax, logic and execution bugs) and finally he saves the obtained program on the non volatile memories, installed on target card that becomes autonomous and embedded. If it is required the GWT80, and the PC that execute it, can be used even after the final installation for many different purposes, as: transfer of collected or required data, update of working parameters, production of printed reports, user interface management, etc.

The availability of some utilities speeds up the program use and lets the user perform many operations in a intuitive, immediate and comfortable manner. So it is not necessary to have a specific knowledge on all the selected products, and in this way, the complete develop time of the user application program is drastically reduced.
GWT80 is a follow up version of previous GET80 program and it is full compatible with this one; the main difference with the last is that GWT80 can be executed on PC provided of Windows operating system.

FEATURES

• Selection of working Language;
• communication with remote cards provided of GDOS 80 romated operating system;
• RS 232 serial communication with target card;
• management of possible additional Interfaces for RS 232 Communication, available on PC;
• Terminal Emulation complete of many commands and attributes;
• personalization of terminal emulation window according with user preferences, for Dimension, Text Colour, Background Colour, etc.
• management of files saved on PC as files of GDOS 80 operating system;
• fast selection of the Working Folder on PC;
• management of Printer connected to PC;
• transmission of presaved Strings usefull for reduce the develop time of User application program;
• production of EPROM binary image with a ROM Disk defined by the user;
• Automatic Saving of the performed settings and their mantainement after Re-execution;
• Fast Recall mode for the most frequently used commands, through mouse;
• suitable for Windows 9x operating systems and following ones;
• include an easy Installation program with simple questions on package configurations;
• No license feed, nor additional costs: the user is free to use the program without restriction, even without advise grifo®;
• It is supplyed on CD and directly from Internet.

GWT80 REQUIREMENTS

Z80 based control card

It is the electronic card that belong to grifo® industrial set, based on Zilog Z80 and compatible microprocessors, as:

• GPC® 80F
• GPC® 81F
• GPC® 011
• GPC® 15A
• GPC® 15R
• GPC® 153
• GPC® 183
• GPC® 154
• GPC® 184
• GPC® 150
• etc.

Independently from the application to develop, the target card must be provided of:
- EPROM or FLASH EPROM with romated operating system GDOS 80
- at least 64 Kbytes of RAM
- one asyncronous RS 232 serial line

The remote card is not absolutely necessary for GWT80 execution but it is anyway indispensable for many of its functionalities.

Personal computer

A personal computer provided of:

• RAM memory: > 24 MBytes
• Hard disk: > 8 MByte liberi
• Opearting system: Windows 95
  Windows 98
  Windows ME
  Windows 2000
  Windows XP
• Video card: > 640x480 pixels, 65536 colours
• Monitor : Colours
• Mouse: Microsoft compatible, correctly managed by used PC and operating system
• Serial line: RS 232, following V24 specifications, orrectly managed by used PC and operating system (COMx)

The following resources are optional in fact they are necessary only when specific operations are performed by the user:

• Printer: Any model correctly managed by used PC and operating system
  Mass memory drive: Any type of hard and/or removable disk, with any support media and any format, correctly managed by used PC and operating system

In the previous description the indication "correctly managed by used PC and operating system" refers to the device in object that must be previously installed. This installation includes both hardware and software configurations as defined by the manufacturing company. In other words the GWT80 have no dedicated software driver for these devices, but it uses those already available in the operating system.

Suggested materials

To simplify and to speed the GWT80 use, even by untrained customers, the following items can be profitably used:

• Cable and possible accessories for serial connection between control card and PC (CCR.PLUG9, CCR.PLUG.25, NCS 01, etc.).
• An EPROM programmer that burns the application program developed by the user, on EPROM. This programmer is necessary only if GDOS80 is on EPROM is used, in fact in the FLASH EPROM version the memory burning is automatically performed by the control card.

Page up-dated at March 10, 2005

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