Serial Port Naming Conventions
- Updated2025-04-03
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The following table describes how the serial ports on an sbRIO device may be notated differently depending on the working environment.
Note Environments can use use
zero-indexed ports or one-indexed ports.
Hardware Silkscreen | Linux TerminalFile System (sysfs) | VISA Names in MAX |
---|---|---|
Serial1 | ttys0 | ASRL1 |
Serial2 | ttys1 | ASRL2 |
Serial3 | ttys2 | ASRL3 |
Serial4 | ttys3 | ASRL4 |
Serial5 | ttys4 | ASRL5 |
Serial6 | ttys5 | ASRL6 |
Note In the table above, the rows for Serial 3, Serial 4, and Serial
6 indicate ports that are not implemented by default in hardware.