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Little Board™ P6d Reference Manual
P/N 5001451A Revision B
5215 Hellyer Avenue, San Jose, CA 95138-1007
Phone: 408 360-0200, FAX: 408 360-0222, Web: www.ampro.com
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TRADEMARKS The Ampro logo is a registered trademark, and Ampro, EnCore, Little Board, CoreModule, and MiniModule are trademarks of Ampro Computers, Inc. Pentium is a registered trademark of Intel, Incorporated. All other marks are the property of their respective companies. NOTICE No part of this document may be reproduced, transmitted, transcribed, stored in a retrieval system, or translated into any language or computer language, in any form or by any means, electronic, mechanical, magnetic,
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Table of Contents Preface Introduction......................................................................................................................................... vii Technical Support ......................................................................................................................... vii Introduction General Description .......................................................................................................................... 1–1 Product Feature
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System Memory................................................................................................................................. 2–9 ROM BIOS..................................................................................................................................2–10 Shadowing ..................................................................................................................................2–10 BIOS Recovery ...................................................
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Ethernet RJ45 Interface Connector (J13)..................................................................................2–37 Ethernet Interface Software ......................................................................................................2–38 Ethernet Setup...........................................................................................................................2–39 Ethernet Indicator LEDs .........................................................................
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Preface Introduction This manual is for integrators and programmers of systems based on the Ampro Little Board P6d, a full-featured CPU module conforming to the EBX 1.1 technical specification. It contains technical information about hardware requirements, interconnection, and software configuration. Technical Support Ampro Computers, Inc. provides a number of methods for contacting Technical Support listed in the following Table i. Ampro provides a comprehensive listing of Frequently Asked Q
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Chapter 1 Introduction General Description The Little Board P6d system is a high integration, high-performance Pentium-II based PC/AT- compatible system that conforms to the EBX V1.1 specification. This rugged and high quality single-board system contains all the component subsystems of a PC/AT PCI motherboard plus the equivalent of up to six expansion boards. The Little Board P6d system meets the size, power consumption, temperature range, quality, and reliability demands of embedded system
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The board uses a single 3.3V DIMM memory module for main DRAM memory, and supports from 32MB to 256MB in a 64-bit or 72-bit (ECC) configuration. The module has a full complement of standard PCI PC/AT architectural features, including DMA channels, interrupt controllers, real-time clock, and timer counters. Enhanced Embedded-PC BIOS One of the most valuable features of the Little Board P6d module is its enhanced embedded-PC BIOS, which includes an extensive set of functions that meet the unique r
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Little Board P6d Module The CompactFlash disk is a solid-state or rotating media disk system that emulates an IDE drive. It uses standard CompactFlash disk media, similar to a PCMCIA memory card, but smaller. Insert the CompactFlash disk media in the on-board CompactFlash socket, and use it in much the same way you would use a removable-media hard drive. The CompactFlash drive is architecturally equivalent to an IDE drive in your system. When installed, it becomes one of the two IDE drives su
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Flat Panel/CRT Display Controller A 69030 video display controller supports both flat panels and CRTs, and offers full software compatibility with all popular PC video standards (VGA, Super VGA, and VESA). All standard resolutions up to 1600x1200 pixels at 64K colors for CRTs and up to 1280x1024 pixels at 16.7M colors for flat panels are supported. 4MB of SDRAM are provided as standard video memory. The display controller features are: ! Enhanced AGP Bus Interface – The video controller provi
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Little Board P6d Module Enhanced Reliability Reliability is especially important in embedded computer systems. Ampro, specializing in embedded system computers and peripherals, knows that embedded systems must be able to run reliably in rugged, hostile, and mission-critical environments without operator intervention. Over the years, Ampro has evolved system designs and a comprehensive testing program to ensure a reliable and stable system for harsh and demanding applications. These include: I
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Little Board Development Platform And QuickStart Kit To help developers quickly assemble an embedded system, Ampro offers the Little Board Development Platform. It includes a power supply, 3-1/2 inch 1.44M floppy disk drive, IDE hard drive, CD ROM drive, speaker, I/O connectors, a backplane for ISA and PCI expansion cards, an I/O development board (described below), and mounting studs for the Little Board. The Development Platform provides a "known good" environment for your development work.
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Little Board P6d Module The Little Board P6d Utility I/O Development Board provides connections for the speaker, keyboard, mouse, IrDA, TTL serial, front panel switches, misc. power management signals, external power supply connections, and so forth. Table 1-1 summarizes the connectors available on the I/O Development Board. Table 1-1. I/O Development Board Connector Summary Connector Name Description J1 Utility Connect to Little Board P6d Utility J2 Power Provides connections for -12V and -5V
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J3 — Misc. This connector contains miscellaneous Power Management signals and the TTL serial. Table 1-3. Miscellaneous Power Management and TTL Wiring Pin # Signal Pin # Signal 1 TTL_TX3 2 TTL_RX1 3 TTL_RX3 4 TTL_TX1 5 TTL_GND 6 SMBALRT 7 TTL_TX4 8 SMBDATA 9 TTL_RX4 10 SMBCLK J4 — Keyboard You can use J4 to connect a PS/2 keyboard. J4 is a standard 5-pin DIN connector. J5 — Mouse You can use J5 to connect a PS/2 mouse. J5 is a standard 6-pin mini-DIN connector. Switch Descriptions (S1 – S5) T
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Little Board P6d Module Figure 1-2 is a block diagram of the Little Board P6d architecture. CPU DRAM Temp 443BX DIMM Serial PCI/120 Bus EEPROM 100BaseT USB (2) Audio Video PIIX4E Ethernet PC/104 Bus IDE (4) Buffer Compact Flash Multi-I/O BIOS RTC I/O Keyboard Floppy Serial 1, 2 Parallel Serial 3, 4 Mouse Figure 1-2. System Block Diagram 1-9
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Chapter 2 Product Reference Overview This chapter contains the technical information you will need to install and configure the Little Board P6d system. The information is presented in the following order: ! Mounting Dimensions (page 2-1) ! Connector Summary (page 2-3) ! Jumper Summary (page 2-6) ! DC Power (page 2-7) ! System Memory (page 2-9) ! Battery Backed Clock (page 2-12) ! Serial Ports (page 2-12) ! Universal Serial Bus (USB) Ports (page 2-17) ! IrDA Port (page 2-18) ! Parallel Port (pa
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