Yes, but those cables are very unique and typically very expensive.
Since DB9's are by far the most common connector for serial ports,
the board would be useless without including that cable which would
add cost to everybody's end product. I don't know how much the cable
below costs, but somebody else's octopus cable costed $88 when we
looked at it!
Those cables are also not something we'd have confidence in having a
consistant supplier for many years to come. Granted, we could have a
cable manufacturer manufacture them for us, but cable manufacturing
is very labor intensive and tends to be expensive. Yet one more
reason would be the extra cabling mess you'd have if you only needed
a few of the COM ports.
TS usually trys to consider total system cost a little more than your
typical SBC company. We've seen some really neat boards in the
industry that start out reasonably priced until you start adding up
all the extra cabling required. We try hard to not do that. More
cables == more mating rather than soldered wires == more complexity
== lower reliability.
//Jesse Off
--- In Curtis Monroe <> wrote:
>
> Did TS consider using an "octopus cable"?
>
> http://www.visionsystems.de/produkte/705.html
>
> -Curtis.
>
>
> On December 1, 2006 06:37 pm, Jesse Off wrote:
> > We've just designed a TS-7300 FPGA load with 34 RS232 serial
ports.
> > We were only able to bring out 25 in the enclosure pictured
below.
> > There is up to three serial ports in each of the 8 DB9's at the
top of
> > the enclosure.
> >
> > http://www.embeddedarm.com/~joff/34comm-stcllw.jpg
> >
> > Ridiculous huh? :-)
> >
> > //Jesse Off
> >
> >
>
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