Acrosser Technology AR-B1380, User Manual

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AR-B1380/AR-B1380A User’ s Guide
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Table of Contents
0. PREFACE ....................................................................................................................................................3
0.1 COPYRIGHT NOTICE AND DISCLAIMER ................................................................................................................................... 3
0.2 WELCOME TO THE AR-B1380/1380A CPU BOARD .................................................................................................................. 3
0.3 BEFORE YOU USE THIS GUIDE .................................................................................................................................................. 3
0.4 RETURNING YOUR BOARD FOR SERVICE ............................................................................................................................... 3
0.5 TECHNICAL SUPPORT AND USER COMMENTS ...................................................................................................................... 4
0.6 ORGANIZATION............................................................................................................................................................................. 4
0.7 STATIC ELECTRICITY PRECAUTIONS ....................................................................................................................................... 4
1. OVERVIEW ..................................................................................................................................................5
1.1 INTRODUCTION ............................................................................................................................................................................ 5
1.2 PACKING LIST ............................................................................................................................................................................... 5
1.3 FEATURES ..................................................................................................................................................................................... 6
2. SYSTEM CONTROLLER..............................................................................................................................7
2.1 MICROPROCESSOR ..................................................................................................................................................................... 7
2.2 DMA CONTROLLER ...................................................................................................................................................................... 7
2.3 KEYBOARD CONTROLLER .......................................................................................................................................................... 8
2.4 INTERRUPT CONTROLLER ......................................................................................................................................................... 8
2.4.1 I/O Port Address Map........................................................................................................................................................... 9
2.4.2 I/O Channel Pin Assignment (Bus1).................................................................................................................................. 10
2.5 REAL-TIME CLOCK AND NON-VOLATILE RAM ....................................................................................................................... 11
2.6 TIMER ........................................................................................................................................................................................... 12
2.7 SERIAL PORTS ............................................................................................................................................................................ 12
2.8 PARALLEL PORT ......................................................................................................................................................................... 15
2.9 SOLID STATE DISKS................................................................................................................................................................... 16
2.10 ETHERNET CONTROLLER......................................................................................................................................................... 16
2.11 VGA CONTROLLER ..................................................................................................................................................................... 16
3. SETTING UP THE SYSTEM .......................................................................................................................17
3.1 OVERVIEW................................................................................................................................................................................... 17
3.2 INDEX OF THE CONNECTORS AND JUMPERS ...................................................................................................................... 18
3.3 SYSTEM SETTING....................................................................................................................................................................... 18
3.3.1 CN1: Hard Disk Drive Connector........................................................................................................................................ 20
3.3.2 CN2: Floppy Disk Drive Connector..................................................................................................................................... 21
3.3.3 CN3: Parallel Port Connector ............................................................................................................................................. 21
3.3.4 CN6: Ethernet RJ-45 Header.............................................................................................................................................. 22
3.3.5 CN7 & CN8: PC/104 Connector ......................................................................................................................................... 22
3.3.6 PS/2 Keyboard and Mouse ................................................................................................................................................. 25
3.3.7 Power Connector................................................................................................................................................................. 26
3.3.8 J5: External Speaker Header.............................................................................................................................................. 26
3.3.9 J7: Reset Header ................................................................................................................................................................ 26
3.3.10 Board Battery Configuration............................................................................................................................................. 27
3.3.11 JP3: CPU Base Clock Selector........................................................................................................................................ 27
3.3.12 Serial Port......................................................................................................................................................................... 29
3.3.13 LED Headers and Indicator.............................................................................................................................................. 30
3.3.14 DRAM Configuration ........................................................................................................................................................ 31
4. CRT/LCD FLAT PANEL DISPLAYS ...........................................................................................................32
4.1 DB1: CRT CONNECTOR ............................................................................................................................................................. 32
4.2 LCD FLAT PANEL DISPLAY........................................................................................................................................................ 32
4.2.1 Inverter Board Description................................................................................................................................................... 33
4.2.2 LCD Settings and Connectors............................................................................................................................................. 33
4.3 SUPPORTED LCD PANELS ........................................................................................................................................................ 36
5. SOFTWARE INSTALLATION.....................................................................................................................37
5.1 OVERVIEW................................................................................................................................................................................... 37
5.2 UTILITY DISKETTE ...................................................................................................................................................................... 38
5.2.1 VGA Driver .......................................................................................................................................................................... 38
5.2.2 SSD Utility............................................................................................................................................................................ 38
5.3 WRITE PROTECT FUNCTION .................................................................................................................................................... 41
5.3.1 Hardware Write Protect....................................................................................................................................................... 41
5.3.2 Software Write Protect ........................................................................................................................................................ 41
5.3.3 Enable the Software Write Protect ..................................................................................................................................... 41
5.3.4 Disable the Software Write Protect..................................................................................................................................... 41
5.4 WATCHDOG TIMER .................................................................................................................................................................... 42
5.4.1 Acrosser’ s Watchdog Timer Program................................................................................................................................. 42
5.4.2 Built-in Watchdog Timer...................................................................................................................................................... 44
5.4.3 INDEX 38H: WD Report register - ....................................................................................................................................... 45