Welltech SPCI2S Intel NetStructure SS7 Boards User Manual
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SS7 Programmer’s Manual for SPCI2, SPCI4 and CPM8 Issue 2
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2. INSTALLATION
2.1 Introduction
This programmer’s manual covers the installation and use of the software
contained on the following distributions:
Development Package for Windows
Development Package for Linux
Development Package for Solaris
User Part Development Package
Binaries for SPCI4, SPCI2S and CPM8 (various protocols)
The Development Package contains the device driver, library functions and
header files for use by an application, a number of executables to be run as part of
the software environment, and a utility to configure the protocol software. The
installation of this package is described in the following sections.
The User Part Development Package contains example source code to illustrate
the techniques used for interfacing with the protocol modules and protocol-specific
header files for use when building an application. It is distributed as a zip file and a
tar file, and is applicable to all supported operating systems. Extract the contents of
the User Part Development Package distribution disk onto the development
machine maintaining the sub-directory structure.
The Binaries are the operating software for the SPCI2S, SPCI4 and CPM8 boards.
This is in the form of a single binary file (‘the code file’) which is downloaded to the
board at run-time by the driver program. Code files for these boards all have a file
suffix .dc3 and should not be confused with code files for other products which use
different suffices. A single SS7 code file (ss7.dc3) includes all SS7 protocol options
(MTP, ISUP, TUP, SCCP, TCAP, MAP and IS41). The code file is used in
conjunction with a software licence button which determines the protocols that the
user is authorised to run.
The code file should be copied onto the target machine maintaining binary file
integrity; it will subsequently be downloaded onto the board at run time. Note that
both PCI and CompactPCI* boards run identical binary software.
Note: Ensure that at least one SPCI4, SPCI2S or CPM8 card is present in the
target system prior to installing and loading the device driver.