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NPC-486E

User's Manual

Adastra Systems

26232 Executive Place

Hayward, CA 94545

TEL (510) 732-6900

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Summary of Contents for NPC-486E

Page 1: ...NPC 486E User s Manual Adastra Systems 26232 Executive Place Hayward CA 94545 TEL 510 732 6900 FAX 510 732 7655 ...

Page 2: ...tained herein are the property of their respective owners This document is designed to provide information about Adastra Systems Corporation products No warranty of suitablility purpose or fitness is implied While every attempt has been made to insure the information in this document is accurate the information contained within is supplied as is and is subject to change without notice ...

Page 3: ...___________Error Bookmark not defined 3 2 CHANGING MEMORY CONFIGURATION _______________ Error Bookmark not defined 3 3 LOGICAL CONFIGURATIONS ________________________ Error Bookmark not defined 3 2 1 CONVENTIONAL MEMORY ______________________Error Bookmark not defined 3 2 2 EXPANDED MEMORY __________________________Error Bookmark not defined 3 2 3 EXTENDED MEMORY___________________________Error Bo...

Page 4: ...OPERATION _______________________ Error Bookmark not defined 10 ETHERNET INTERFACE ___________________________ Error Bookmark not defined 10 1 CONNECTORS ___________________________________ Error Bookmark not defined 10 2 10BASE T OPERATION ____________________________ Error Bookmark not defined 10 2 1 RJ45 PIN OUT _______________________________Error Bookmark not defined 10 3 10BASE2 AND 10BASE5 ...

Page 5: ...POWER CONTROL _______________Error Bookmark not defined 14 4 SSD PAGE ADDRESS CALCULATIONS ________________ Error Bookmark not defined 15 BIOS______________________________________________ Error Bookmark not defined 15 1 FLASHFUSION FLASH BIOS UPDATE UTILITY _______ Error Bookmark not defined 15 2 SOLID STATE DISK DRIVER ________________________ Error Bookmark not defined 15 3 NETWORK BOOT DRIVER_...

Page 6: ...NSTAL ____________________________ Error Bookmark not defined G 2 CONFIGURATION _________________________________ Error Bookmark not defined G 2 1 PNP ISA MODE ENABLED ______________________Error Bookmark not defined G 2 2 PNP ISA MODE DISABLED______________________Error Bookmark not defined G 3 DRIVER INSTALLATION ____________________________ Error Bookmark not defined G 3 1 NOVELL NETWARE DOS OD...

Page 7: ..._ERROR BOOKMARK NOT DEFINED H 3 5 UPDATE BIOS NOW ______________________ERROR BOOKMARK NOT DEFINED H 3 6 EXIT __________________________________ERROR BOOKMARK NOT DEFINED H 4 BIOS IMAGE FILE LIST________________________ERROR BOOKMARK NOT DEFINED ...

Page 8: ...e of driving both flat panels and CRTs Additional subsystems are integrated into the NPC 486E which further enhance its PC AT functionality These include a PS 2 style mouse and a 16 bit Ethernet interface Special features and functions are included on the NPC 486E to address the needs of embedded control These functions include a watchdog timer a solid state disk and an ISA bus extension based on ...

Page 9: ...Two 16550 serial UARTs RS 232C One bi directional PC AT printer parallel port TTL Speaker Driver 8 ohm 5W speaker drive capability Display VGA compatible adapter 32 bit local bus 512K 1M optional 16M colors 640x480 800x600 and 1024x768 resolution Simultaneous CRT with flat panels LCD EL and Plasma Windows hardware accelerator factory order option On board LCD bias positive or negative voltage On b...

Page 10: ...95 RH non condensing Power 1 5A at 5 volt 80486SX 33 MHz 4 Mbytes RAM 1 4 Technical Support Adastra Systems Corporation technicians and engineers are available for technical support should the need arise We are committed to making our product easy to use and will help in any way we can when you apply our products in your systems Technical support may be reached at 510 732 6900 8 00 am to 5 00 p m ...

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Page 12: ...ed to different applications The 486SX is cost effective but will not handle calculation intensive applications as well as the others The DX4 is the highest performance processor but this performance does not extend to memory or display intensive applications that are dependent on the external 33MHz bus 2 1 Processor Upgrade The CPU is a factory installed option and must be specified at the time o...

Page 13: ...he new processor in the socket taking care to line up the pin 1 indicators of the chip and socket 6 Apply even pressure to opposite edges of the chip starting with a low force 7 Increase the pressure evenly on the chip edges until it is fully seated within the socket The pressure required is significant it is important that there be support under the PC board directly below the CPU socket 8 Change...

Page 14: ...e changed by manipulating the VLSI VL82C486 CLKCTL register index 06h If E12 is out the fast clock divider in the CLKCTL register is used if E12 is in the slow clock divider is used See the VLSI Technology VL82C486 Data Manual for details or contact Adastra technical support See Chapter 16 for a table of the power savings from slowing down the clock and turning off peripherals 2 2 Temperature Rati...

Page 15: ...04 800 4 06 1000 5 07 Ta with 33 MHz 49 65 71 74 76 76 Heat Sink 50 MHz 30 54 64 68 71 72 66 MHz 16 46 58 64 67 69 Ta without 33 MHz 36 44 50 55 58 60 Heat Sink 50 MHz 11 23 33 40 45 47 66 MHz 8 7 19 28 34 37 Notes 1 Temperature given in C 2 Source Intel Microprocessor Handbook ...

Page 16: ...IMM sockets have gold contacts and using gold leaded SIMMs will improve long term reliability These may be obtained from Adastra or at local computer stores and are often referred to as PS 2 style memory modules Compatible modules come in 256Kx36 1M 512Kx36 2M 1Mx36 4M 2Mx36 8M and 4Mx36 16M capacity The resulting memory configurations are 1M 2M 4M 8M 16M or 32M bytes One or two SIMMs may be loade...

Page 17: ...e entire length of the module 4 The edges of the SIMM module should click as the latches lock into place 3 1 2 Removing SIMM Modules 1 Insure that power to the system is off 2 Pull the latch tabs on both ends of the socket back away from the module The module will rotate slightly to a position free of the latches 3 Rotate the module to 90 4 Carefully pull the module out Rotate Insert 2 1 Rotate Re...

Page 18: ...g system and programs which will run on the NPC 486E 3 2 1 Conventional Memory Conventional memory is the first 640K bytes of RAM This memory block is used extensively by various operating systems and programs common on the PC AT 3 2 2 Expanded Memory Expanded memory refers to a design which allows access to a large address space e g 32M bytes on a processor such as the 8088 that has address lines...

Page 19: ... a bank of RAM Execution of BIOS can then take place from the faster RAM memory enhancing performance The RAM used is called shadow RAM A special BIOS utility will copy ROM BIOS to shadow RAM if some of the system memory is allocated for the shadow RAM using Set up ...

Page 20: ...the end of the cable must be configured as the slave Consult the disk drive manual for instructions in this task The 44 pin 2mm connector is pin compatible with 2 5 and 1 8 form factor drives Power is provided on the cable An adapter board or cable to convert from the 44 pin 2mm connector to a 40 pin 0 1 connector is required to connect to 3 5 hard disk drives E27 E28 E18 J1 1 1 J19 U7 U6 E9 U13 2...

Page 21: ...no connect 4 2 Port Address and IRQ The port addresses and interrupt line used by the IDE Host Adapter are Port Addresses Interrupt Line 1F0 1F7 3F6 3F7 IRQ 14 4 3 Drive Type Specification The type of hard disk s connected to the IDE Host Adapter must be specified using the BIOS Setup utility The drive specification includes cylinder sector and head information which translates into formatted capa...

Page 22: ...veral small form factor 2 5 drives with capacities greater than 40 MB Maker Form Model Cylinders Heads Sectors Landing Capacity Maxtor 2 5 2585 981 10 17 NA 85 M Maxtor 2 5 25128 1024 14 17 NA 128 M Conner 2 5 CP2064 823 4 38 823 64 M Conner 2 5 CP2124 762 8 39 762 120 M ...

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Page 24: ... the end of the cable and one in the middle The first drive drive A is always connected to the end connector The middle connector is used for the second drive drive B The daisy chain cable twists seven lines 10 through 16 to correctly address the two floppies during operation the twist is a mirror around line 13 which remains stable See Appendix A for ordering information E27 E28 E18 J1 1 1 J19 U7...

Page 25: ...ive Select 0 15 GND 16 Motor 1 17 GND 18 Direction 19 GND 20 Step 21 GND 22 Write Data 23 GND 24 Write Gate 25 GND 26 Track 0 27 GND 28 Write Protect 29 no connect 30 Read Data 31 GND 32 Head Select 33 no connect 34 Disk Change 5 2 Drive Type Specification The drive type must be specified using the BIOS Setup utility The drive type can be 5 25 either 360KB or 1 2MB or 3 5 either 720KB or 1 44MB ...

Page 26: ...for the PS 2 style mouse 6 1 Connector The keyboard mouse connector J13 is a 8 pin friction lock single line header connector E27 E28 E18 J1 1 1 J19 U7 U6 E9 U13 2 J2 J3 E5 U8 E8 E7 E6 2 J4 1 6 E16 E10 E14 E13 E11 E15 E12 U9 E17 U14 1 E1 J18 1 E3 E2 E4 3 U16 E19 E20 E21 E22 E23 E24 E25 U15 U10 E26 U11 J6 J7 J8 J5 1 1 1 J9 J10 U24 E29 BT1 E30 1 J11 Keyboard Mouse U18 1 J12 1 E31 E32 J13 T1 U21 J17 ...

Page 27: ... Back View 6 2 No Keyboard Operation Often in embedded systems a keyboard is not used Standard PC AT BIOS will report an error and fail during power on self test POST after a reset if a keyboard is not present The NPC 486E BIOS is configured not to fail in the absence of a keyboard It reports nothing or a simple warning instead of the standard error message and continues with POST ...

Page 28: ...n male dual in line Hirose DF11 designated J4 The pin out for the front panel connector J4 is Pin Signal Pin Signal 1 IDE LED resistor and anode 5V 2 IDE LED cathode 3 Speaker 5V 4 Speaker 5 Push Button Reset Switch GND 6 Reset Switch E27 E28 Front Panel E18 J1 1 1 J19 U7 U6 E9 U13 2 J2 J3 E5 U8 E8 E7 E6 6 1 2 J4 E16 E10 E14 E13 E11 E15 E12 U9 E17 U14 1 E1 J18 1 E3 E2 E4 3 U16 E19 E20 E21 E22 E23 ...

Page 29: ...tics similar to that of a speaker The drive circuit for speakers and annunciators consists of a supply voltage and a transistor controlled drain The NPC 486E can drive an 8 ohm speaker at 0 5 watts Alternatives to such a speaker must be compatible 7 3 LED Interface The front panel LED indicator Hard Disk Access is an active low signal capable of sinking 24 ma 5 Speaker Signal Speaker Speaker 50 Oh...

Page 30: ...23 7 4 Reset Switch The reset switch should be a momentary normally open single pole switch The switch should be rated for 10 ma 5V Reset Switch Reset Switch ...

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Page 32: ...1 Connectors The connector for the primary port J9 is a 10 pin dual in line male header The secondary port J8 is a 14 pin dual in line male header The pin out for the primary connector J9 is Pin Signal Pin Signal 1 DCD 2 DSR 3 RXD 4 RTS 5 TXD 6 CTS 7 DTR 8 RI 9 GND 10 NC E27 E28 E20 E22 E23 E18 J1 1 1 J19 U7 U6 E9 U13 2 J2 J3 E5 U8 E8 E7 E6 2 J4 1 6 E16 E10 E14 E13 E11 E15 E12 U9 E17 U14 1 E1 J18 ...

Page 33: ...wo channel and single channel RS 485 operation In two channel operation the transmit and receive channels are separate transmit using pins 11 12 receive using pins 13 14 In single channel mode the transmit and receive operations are multiplexed using the single channel of pins 13 14 Multi drop operation requires supplemental software to control the active transmitter in both one and two channel im...

Page 34: ...XD Transmit Data Output Adapter cables are used to transform the 10 pin header to 9 pin or 25 pin D sub connector common to PC AT serial ports A similar conversion is used for the 14 pin header 10 pin Header to 9 pin D Sub Conversion When using the RS 485 capability of the second serial port an adapter to convert the 14 pin header to a 15 pin D Sub is typically used The RS 232 signals are not used...

Page 35: ...ms Inquiries should be directed to customer service Port Address Range Interrupt COM3 3E8 3EF IRQ4 COM4 2E8 2EF IRQ3 Jumpers E22 and E23 are used to physically couple the IRQ lines to the serial port hardware These jumpers may be removed if another device requires the use of these interrupts E23 COM1 Interrupt Enable No IRQ connection IRQ4 E22 COM2 Interrupt Enable No IRQ connection IRQ3 The Super...

Page 36: ...l For a full duplex port that means four physical lines There are half duplex one channel RS 485 implementations which require only two physical wires The software protocol to control this topology is more rigorous than that of a two channel system Transmitter Receiver Differential Differential Data Out Data In T T R R T T R R Data In Data Out Device 1 Device 2 Full Duplex Channel Transmitter Rece...

Page 37: ...RXD The selection of RS 485 versus RS 232 drive types is controlled by bit 4 in the NPC 486E Custom I O Register 0 A 1 on this bit disables RS 485 and selects RS 232 a 0 on this bit selects RS 485 7 6 5 4 3 2 1 0 C u s t o m R e g ister 0 B it H a lf D u p lex Transmit Control 0 RS 2 3 2 default 1 RS 4 8 5 In a half duplex system the transmit and receive functions share pins 13 and 14 of J8 Bit 4 ...

Page 38: ...y A software protocol typically controls which RS 485 node has permission to transmit The authorized transmitter asserts it s transmit enable and transmits all necessary data When finished the transmitter should be disabled In the RS 485 implementation of multi drop of the NPC 486E the transmitter enable line is controlled by bit 5 of Custom I O register 0 The transmitter is enabled by writing a 1...

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Page 40: ...ence J10 Pin Signal Pin Signal 1 STROBE 2 AUTOFD 3 D0 4 ERR 5 D1 6 INIT 7 D2 8 SLCTIN 9 D3 10 GND 11 D4 12 GND 13 D5 14 GND 15 D6 16 GND 17 D7 18 GND 19 ACK 20 GND 21 BUSY 22 GND 23 PE 24 GND 25 SLCT 26 NC E27 E28 E24 E25 E18 J1 1 1 J19 U7 U6 E9 U13 2 J2 J3 E5 U8 E8 E7 E6 2 J4 1 6 E16 E10 E14 E13 E11 E15 E12 U9 E17 U14 1 E1 J18 1 E3 E2 E4 3 U16 E19 E20 E21 E22 E23 E24 E25 U15 U10 E26 U11 Parallel ...

Page 41: ...o this is available from Adastra Systems Inquiries should be directed to customer service With no other parallel port in the system the BIOS will designate the on board port as LPT1 The I O addresses and interrupt assignment common to PC AT printer ports are as follows Address Range Interrupt 278 27A IRQ7 378 37A IRQ5 3BC 3BE IRQ7 9 3 Interrupt Selection The interrupt used by the port is controlle...

Page 42: ...mpatible with those of a PS 2 style parallel port This functionality is always available and does not conflict with normal printer use The following piece of code may be used to put the on board I O device into bi directional mode MOV DX 3F0H ENTER SUPER I O CONFIG MOV AX 55H CLI OUT DX AL OUT DX AL MOV DX 3F0H CONFIG BI DI PARALLEL PORT MOV AL 1 OUT DX AL MOV DX 3F1H IN AL DX AND AL 0F7H OUT DX A...

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Page 44: ... the network to one of two ports 10Base T connects through a simple adapter cable to a 10 pin polarized header J16 10Base2 and 10Base5 connect through their respective Attachment Unit Interfaces AUI and a straight through ribbon cable to a 16 pin polarized header J17 See appendix A for part numbers and ordering information Only one interface 10Base T or AUI should be active The AM79C961 dynamicall...

Page 45: ...le on the 10Base T connector J16 pins 2 and 5 External current limiting resistors in series with the LEDs are needed 10 2 1 RJ45 Pin Out An adapter cable converting the J16 10 pin header to a standard 10Base T RJ45 jack is available see Appendix A for adapter part numbers and ordering information RJ 45 Pin out Pin Signal 1 Transmit Data 2 Transmit Data 3 Receive Data 4 No Connect 5 No Connect 6 Re...

Page 46: ... The on board Ethernet interface may be configured by a software utility program This program will allow the selection of the I O address DMA channel and Interrupt Request line used by the interface It also can disable the dynamic selection of the AUI interface I O Address Selections IRQ Channel Selections DMA Channel Selections 300H 31FH 5 3 320H 33FH 9 5 340H 35FH 10 6 360H 37FH 11 7 380H 39FH 1...

Page 47: ...n The following drivers are available Novell Netware 3 1x 4 x Server ODI DOS ODI OS 2 ODI Novell UnixWare 1 1 Microsoft LAN Manager 2 x Microsoft Windows for Workgroups 3 1 NDIS 2 01 Microsoft Windows for Workgroups 3 11 NDIS 2 01 NDIS 3 0 Microsoft NDIS 2 01 compatible networks DEC PATHWORKS Banyan VINES IBM LAN Server 2 0 3 x Sun PC NFS 5 x Artisoft LANtastic 6 0 Microsoft Windows NT 3 1 3 5 NDI...

Page 48: ...llation NDIS 2 01 IBM LAN Server 2 0 3 x Microsoft LAN Manager 2 x Sun PC NFS 5 x Microsoft Windows for Workgroups 3 1 Microsoft Windows for Workgroups 3 11 Artisoft LANtastic 6 0 NDIS 3 0 Microsoft Windows NT 3 1 3 5 Microsoft Windows for Workgroups 3 11 ODI Novell NetWare 4 x DOS and Server Sun PC NFS 5 x Microsoft Windows NT 3 1 Microsoft Windows for Workgroups 3 11 STREAMS SCO UNIX 3 2 4 ODT 1...

Page 49: ...certain combinations Config Option I O Addr IRQ DMA 1 300h 3 5 2 320h 4 6 3 340h 5 7 4 360h 9 3 BOOTP Allowed Configurations Most net boot ROM images are 16K bytes in size In the NPC 486E the image is typically located within the BIOS memory device and at address CC000h The Boot ROM images are distributed with the network drivers and can be obtained from the factory They can be loaded into the NPC...

Page 50: ...tandard CRT VGA monitors and one for flat panel displays Connector J1 a 16 pin dual in line header is used for CRT monitors which are compatible with the IBM 8014 VGA display A simple cable adapter can be used to map this connector to the standard 15 pin D SUB connector commonly used for VGA See Appendix A for ordering information E27 E28 E1 E18 Flat Panel Display Connectors CRT Connector PC Video...

Page 51: ...nal Description 1 P8 Panel Data 8 2 Signal GND 3 P9 Panel Data 9 4 P20 Panel Data 20 5 P10 Panel Data 10 6 Signal GND 7 P11 Panel Data 11 8 P21 Panel Data 21 9 P12 Panel Data 12 10 Signal GND 11 P13 Panel Data 13 12 P22 Panel Data 22 13 P14 Panel Data 14 14 Signal GND 15 P15 Panel Data 15 16 P23 Panel Data 23 17 P16 Panel Data 16 18 Signal GND 19 ENAVEE Enable VEE LCD Bias 20 SHFCLK Inverted clock...

Page 52: ...3 pin numbering standard 2mm scheme 11 2 Flat Panel Display Selection Unlike the original NPC 486 the NPC 486E supports only one display setting for a given BIOS However the NPC 486E can now support simultaneous CRT and flat panel for all displays including dual scan LCD It also has Flash BIOS that enables the user to easily re program the VGA BIOS for a different display See the chapter on Flash ...

Page 53: ...itive and negative voltages at the same time Both are available on different pins on the connectors Care should be taken to connect the proper voltage polarity To reduce the potential for providing to high a voltage there is a jumper E1 that limits the positive or negative voltage to 24V Consult the display specification to determine which setting is correct for your display If there is any doubt ...

Page 54: ...14 8x8 720x400 640x350 640x200 70 Hz 256 KB A B C 4 Graphic 4 40x25 8x8 320x200 70 Hz 256 KB A B C 5 Graphic 4 40x25 8x8 320x200 70 Hz 256 KB A B C 6 Graphic 2 80x25 8x8 640x200 70 Hz 256 KB A B C 7 Text Mono 80x25 80x25 80x25 9x16 9x14 9x8 720x400 720x350 720x350 70 Hz 256 KB A B C D Planar 16 40x25 8x8 320x200 70 Hz 256 KB A B C E Planar 16 80x25 8x8 640x200 70 Hz 256 KB A B C F Planar Mono 80x2...

Page 55: ...60 Hz 512 KB C 72 75 I 43 Hz 512 KB B C 78 Packed Pixel 16 80x25 8x16 640x400 70 Hz 256 KB A B C 79 Packed Pixel 256 80x30 8x16 640x480 60 Hz 512 KB A B C 7C Packed Pixel 256 100x37 8x16 800x600 60 Hz 512 KB B C 7E Packed Pixel 256 128x48 8x16 1024x768 60 Hz 1 MB C 7E I 43 Hz 1 MB B C CRT Codes A PS 2 fixed frequency analog CRT monitor or equivalent 31 5 35 5 KHz Horizontal Frequency Specification...

Page 56: ...eo window may be positioned anywhere using X Y coordinates or color keying An on board 1M frame buffer may be used for still frame capture The DVAB 104X includes Sound Blaster compatible audio features J19 Pin Signal Comments Pin Signal Comments 1 GND 2 NC No connect 3 GND 4 NC 5 GND 6 RED7 MSB input to NPC 486E 7 GND 8 RED6 9 GND 10 RED5 11 RED1 12 RED4 13 RED0 LSB input to NPC 486E 14 RED3 15 GN...

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Page 58: ... See Appendix C for a description of this register Bit 2 of register 1 is the software timer enable A 1 in this location enables the timer for operation if E14 is IN as well A 0 at this location disables the timer circuit The default value for this bit is 0 12 2 Operation When enabled the timer circuit must be continually strobed to prevent it from entering the alarm condition Strobing is done by ...

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Page 60: ...r reduced bus signal drive requirements 13 1 Connector There are two physical connectors associated with the 16 bit PC 104 expansion supported by the NPC 486E J5 and J6 E27 E28 E18 J1 1 1 J19 U7 U6 E9 U13 2 J2 J3 E5 U8 E8 E7 E6 2 J4 1 6 E16 E10 E14 E13 E11 E15 E12 U9 E17 U14 1 E1 J18 1 E3 E2 E4 3 U16 E19 E20 E21 E22 E23 E24 E25 U15 U10 E26 U11 PC104 J6 J7 J8 J5 1 1 1 J9 J10 U24 E29 BT1 E30 1 J11 U...

Page 61: ... LA19 D6 IRQ15 A8 SD1 B8 WS0 C7 LA18 D7 IRQ14 A9 SD0 B9 12V C8 LA17 D8 DACK0 A10 IOCHRDY B10 GND C9 MEMR D9 DREQ0 A11 AEN B11 SMEMW C10 MEMW D10 DACK5 A12 SA19 B12 SMEMR C11 SD8 D11 DREQ5 A13 SA18 B13 IOW C12 SD9 D12 DACK6 A14 SA17 B14 IOR C13 SD10 D13 DREQ6 A15 SA16 B15 DACK3 C14 SD11 D14 DACK7 A16 SA15 B16 DREQ3 C15 SD12 D15 DREQ7 A17 SA14 B17 DACK1 C16 SD13 D16 VCC A18 SA13 B18 DREQ1 C17 SD14 D...

Page 62: ... manner Adapter cards are designed with plugs on their undersides which mate with the PC 104 socket connectors of the NPC 486E PC 104 adapters can support the socket connector version on their top side and allow further stacking of adapters NPC 486 Stackthrough PC 104 Adapter J5 J6 ...

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Page 64: ... devices if desired for non volatility This SSD is referred to as the Socket SSD 14 1 Memory Configuration The architecture of the PC AT and the limitations imposed by DOS force the memory spanned by the SSD to be paged That is it is accessible in discrete blocks or Pages A window in the Upper Memory Area of the PC AT A0000 FFFFF is reserved to view the SSD memory The size of this window is the Pa...

Page 65: ...ocation memory type and memory size are configured using jumpers The Socket SSD memory type is specified by jumpers E9 and E10 E10 E9 Memory Type Supported Sizes Out Out Reserved NA Out In 5V Flash 128K 512K In Out EPROM 128K 256K 512K In In SRAM EEPROM 32K 128K 512K The JEDEC style socket of the Socket SSD accepts 32 pin devices It can also accept 28 pin 32K byte SRAM and EEPROM devices The selec...

Page 66: ... IN OUT 64K D000 if E5 and or E6 IN IN OUT 128K D000 if E5 and E6 OUT IN IN 16K D4000 14 2 1 Socket SSD Battery Connection The NPC 486E includes circuitry which allows reliable battery backed SRAM operation The on board battery used by the Real Time Clock RTC of the NPC 486E can be used by Socket SSD SRAM as well It is also possible to use an external battery Using the RTC battery will diminish it...

Page 67: ... a g e S ize 6 4 K P a g e S ize 1 2 8 K P a g e S ize S o c k e t S S D P a g e S e lection Register The Page Selection Register is selected by writing an index value of 2 to the Custom Feature Index Register MOV DX CF_INDXREG IN AL DX READ INDEX REGISTER JMP 2 DELAY FOR ISA BUS I O JMP 2 AND AL 0FCH MASK INDEX BITS OR AL 2 INDEX SSD PAGE REGISTER OUT DX AL JMP 2 DELAY FOR ISA BUS I O JMP 2 MOV D...

Page 68: ...ration The Factory SSD consists of one or two Flash memory devices soldered on the board The devices can be 1M or 2M individually resulting in SSD capacities of 1M 2M or 4M Like the Socket SSD the memory of the Factory SSD is accessible in a window in the Upper Memory Area Jumpers E5 and E6 control the size and base address of the window E5 E6 Window Size Window Address Range In In 16K D8000 DBFFF...

Page 69: ...EAD INDEX REGISTER JMP 2 DELAY FOR ISA BUS I O JMP 2 AND AL 3 MASK INDEX BITS OR AL 3 INDEX SSD PAGE REGISTER OUT DX AL JMP 2 DELAY FOR ISA BUS I O JMP 2 MOV DX CF_DATAREG SELECT DESIRED SSD PAGE IN AL DX READ INDEX REGISTER JMP 2 DELAY FOR ISA BUS I O JMP 2 MOV AL desired page OUT DX AL JMP 2 DELAY FOR ISA BUS I O JMP 2 14 3 2 Factory SSD Write Enable The Write Enable line for the Factory SSD is ...

Page 70: ...le and disable the 12V supply and to assert the low power mode Both control lines are on Custom Feature Register 0 Bit 7 controls the 12V supply and bit 6 controls the low power mode A value of 1 enables power for the respective lines 7 6 5 4 3 2 1 0 Custom Feature Register 0 B it 0 F a c t o r y S S D 1 2 V D isabled 1 F a c t o r y S S D N o r m a l P o w er 0 F a c t o r y S S D L o w P o w er ...

Page 71: ...sical address Note that for Window sizes larger than 64K the Offset may be larger than a 64K segment This requires that the Segment and Offset change Segment Segment Offset 64K 4096 Offset Offset MOD 64K Special consideration must be given to the case of a 2M Factory SSD comprised of 2 1M devices In this configuration the total 2M of the SSD is not contiguous and each device starts on a 2M boundar...

Page 72: ...rea 000000h 0A0000h 100000h 384K bytes RAM ROM Expanded Memory Area System BIOS Setup 0F0000h 0E0000h 0D0000h 0C0000h 0B0000h 0A0000h VGA BIOS Drivers Available for ROM BIOS Available for ROM BIOS Display Adapter Memory Display Adapter Memory E27 E28 BIOS Memory Device E18 J1 1 1 J19 U7 U6 E9 U13 2 J2 J3 E5 U8 E8 E7 E6 2 J4 1 6 E16 E10 E14 E13 E11 E15 E12 U9 E17 U14 1 E1 J18 1 E3 E2 E4 3 U16 E19 E...

Page 73: ...0F0000h SYSTEM BIOS 100000h 15 1 FlashFusion Flash BIOS Update Utility The NPC 486E BIOS device is typically Flash memory This type of memory is re programmable in circuit Adastra System s FlashFusion Utility can be used to reprogram all or part of the BIOS image in the device 15 2 Solid State Disk Driver The Solid State Disk SSD driver can be included within the BIOS ROM or contained within the S...

Page 74: ...67 15 3 Network Boot Driver Network Boot ROM images are available for many network operating systems A net boot image may be incorporated into the ROM BIOS by special order or by FlashFusion ...

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Page 76: ...eripherals and PC 104 adapters 16 1 Main Power Connector The main power connector J14 mates with the hard disk power output connector of a typical PC power supply While the main power input accepts 5V and 12V only the 5V is required by the NPC 486 alone The 12V is required to supply some flat panel displays the PC 104 ISA bus and 12V CPU mounted fans E27 E28 Fan Power LCD Bias E18 J1 1 1 J19 U7 U6...

Page 77: ...or some PC 104 ISA bus expansion boards It also will accept power from an external battery for use with SRAM devices in the Socket SSD This is the recommended method for providing battery back up to the SRAM SSD It is a 0 1 pitch single row 6 pin friction lock header 4 3 2 1 GND 5V 12V GND Peripheral Power Connector J7 Top View 6 5 SRAM Battery SRAM Battery ...

Page 78: ... bias voltages 6 5 4 5V 12V GND Fan Power and LCD Bias Top View 3 2 1 7 5V Bias pot CCW pin GND SET Bias pot wiper pin GND Bias pot CW pin Connector J18 Fan Power 16 4 Power Consumption As discussed in Chapter 2 and Appendix C the NPC 486E has the ability to slow down the CPU speed or shut down peripherals in order to conserve power The following tables illustrates typical current requirements at ...

Page 79: ...rent Amps at 5V Peripherals 33 MHz 66 25 MHz 50 16 MHz 8 MHz All peripherals enabled 2 00 1 71 NA NA Network only disabled 1 97 1 68 NA NA VGA only disabled 1 81 1 51 NA NA All peripherals disabled 1 77 1 48 NA NA 80486DX4 Current Amps at 5V Peripherals 33 MHz 100 25 MHz 75 16 MHz 8 MHz All peripherals enabled 2 15 1 82 NA NA Network only disabled 2 11 1 78 NA NA VGA only disabled 1 95 1 62 NA NA ...

Page 80: ...Primary serial COM1 J9 9 pin male DSUB 3M U 89809 8003 620 002 Secondary serial COM2 RS 232 J8 9 pin male DSUB 3M U 89809 8003 620 010 Secondary serial COM2 RS 485 J8 9 pin male DSUB 3M U 89815 8003 620 007 Parallel Port J10 25 pin female DSUB 3M U 89925 8003 620 011 Network 10BASE2 10BASE5 AUI J17 15 pin female DSUB 3M u89915 8003 620 012 Network 10BASE T J16 RJ45 8 pin modular jack high density ...

Page 81: ...M bytes floppy disk drive Part Number 920 002 5 25 1 2M bytes floppy disk drive A 5 Software Operating Systems Part Number 930 004 MS DOS 6 22 Part Number 930 005 MS Windows for Workgroups 3 11 Part Number 930 006 MS DOS 6 22 and MS Windows for Workgroups 3 11 A 6 Software Utilities Part Number 930 020 ROMFusion Solid State Disk Utilities A 7 Software Network Drivers Part Number 930 019 Network St...

Page 82: ... jumper or BIOS Configuration IRQ Interrupt Number Primary Use Alternate Use 0 08H 18 2 ms Timer NA 1 09H Keyboard NA 2 0AH Slave 8259 interrupt controller NA 3 0BH COM2 secondary serial 4 0CH COM1 primary serial 5 0DH Not used LPT2 Ethernet controller 6 0EH Floppy disk controller NA 7 0FH LPT1 8 70H Real time clock NA 9 71H LAN 10 72H Not used Video 11 73H Not used 12 74H PS 2 Mouse 13 75H Math c...

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Page 84: ...er 1 040 05F Counter Timer 060 06F Keyboard controller 070 07F RT Clock NMI 080 09F DMA Page register 0A0 0BF Interrupt controller 2 0C0 0DF DMA controller 2 0E0 0EF Undocumented 0F0 0FF Math coprocessor 100 1EF Unused 1F0 1F7 Fixed disk controller 1F8 1FF Unused 200 20F Unused game port 210 277 Unused 278 27F Unused LPT2 280 2E7 Unused 2E8 2EF Unused COM4 2F0 2F7 Unused 2F8 2FF COM2 300 35F Unuse...

Page 85: ...e read tests on the locations C 2 2 I O Registers The even I O location 510 or 590 depending on E13 is referred to as the index register The two least significant bits of this register form an index value Accesses to the odd I O location are routed to one of four registers depending on the two index bits These four registers accessed at the odd address are referred to as Data Registers The high bi...

Page 86: ... 1 read only low jumper in E5 REG1_6 4 Meg SSD select jumper 0 read only low jumper in E6 REG1_5 512K SSD select jumper 1 read only low jumper in E7 REG1_4 512K SSD select jumper 0 read only low jumper in E8 REG1_3 ck_sel jumper read only low 25 MHz system high 33 MHz E11 REG1_2 Watch dog enable high watchdog enabled REG1_1 System clock speed course control high faster see table Chap 2 REG1_0 Syst...

Page 87: ...ault 0000 0000 REG3_7 4 Meg SSD address line 21 REG3_6 4 Meg SSD address line 20 REG3_5 4 Meg SSD address line 19 REG3_4 4 Meg SSD address line 18 REG3_3 4 Meg SSD address line 17 REG3_2 4 Meg SSD address line 16 REG3_1 4 Meg SSD address line 15 REG3_0 4 Meg SSD address line 14 ...

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Page 90: ...J1 1 J19 U6 U7 E9 U13 E5 E8 E7 E6 J2 2 U8 J3 2 J4 1 E16 E10 E14 E13 E11 E15 E12 E17 U9 U14 1 E1 J18 E2 E3 E4 3 E19 E20 E21 E22 E23 E24 E25 1 U15 U16 U10 E26 U11 E27 E30 J10 J6 J8 6 J7 J5 1 J9 1 E28 E27 E29 E30 BT1 J11 U24 1 1 J12 U18 1 1 E31 E32 1 U21 J17 T1 J14 J13 1 J16 1 E31 E32 ...

Page 91: ...n E1 LCD Bias Voltage IN OUT 24V max under load 30V max under load E2 CPU Select C14 IN OUT DX DX2 DX4 SX E3 CPU Select NMI IN OUT DX DX2 DX4 SX E4 CPU Select A15 IN 1 2 IN 2 3 OUT DX DX2 DX4 SX invalid E6 E5 Factory SSD 4M Window Select OUT OUT OUT IN IN OUT IN IN SSD Disabled 16K byte EC00 64K byte E000 16K byte D800 E8 E7 Socket SSD 5M Window Select OUT OUT OUT IN IN OUT IN IN SSD Disabled 16K ...

Page 92: ...t IN OUT COM1 uses IRQ4 No COM1 IRQ connected E25 E24 LPT IRQ Connect at most one IN OUT OUT OUT IN IN OUT IN IN No LPT IRQ connected LPT IRQ 5 LPT IRQ 7 Invalid E26 3 3V Bypass Factory Installed IN OUT No 3 3V Regulator 3 3V Regulator installed E28 E27 Socket SSD 5M 28 32 Pin Device only one IN OUT OUT OUT IN IN OUT IN IN Invalid 32 pin device selected 28 pin device selected Invalid E29 Socket SS...

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Page 94: ... J2 J1 1 1 J19 U6 U7 E9 U13 2 J3 E5 U8 E8 E7 E6 2 1 6 J4 E16 E10 E14 E13 E11 E15 E12 U9 E17 U14 1 E1 1 E2 J18 E3 E4 3 U16 E19 E20 E21 E22 E23 E24 E25 U15 U10 E26 U11 J12 COM2 COM1 Peripheral Power J10 J6 J8 J7 J5 1 1 J9 BT1 E29 E30 J11 U24 1 Parallel 1 10Base T Keyboard Mouse IDE AUI Port U18 1 1 E31 E32 U21 1 J17 T1 1 J13 J14 1 J16 Floppy Main Power ...

Page 95: ...Hirose DF11 6DS 2C J5 PC 104 ISA16 bit Samtec ESW 132 14 G D Samtec HCMD 32 02 J6 PC 104 ISA 8 bit Samtec ESW 120 14 G D Samtec HCMD 20 02 J7 Alternate power AMP 640456 6 AMP 640441 6 J8 Secondary serial 3M 2514 6002UG 3M 3385 6614 J9 Primary serial 3M 2510 6002UG 3M 3473 6610 J10 Parallel port 3M 2526 6002UG 3M 3399 6626 J11 IDE Astron AT PH2 44 2 0 GF Astron AT IDCSK2 44 1 GF J12 Dual Floppy 3 5...

Page 96: ... into the floppy drive Make sure HIMEM SYS for DOS is loaded in the CONFIG SYS file 2 Type at the prompt aminstal exe Then press Enter 3 Follow the screens to complete the Configuration Section 1 and Installation Section 2 for the interface AMINSTAL supports a mouse otherwise a Key Map see below is provided to navigate through the utility You may press F1 at any time for help Key Function ESC Exit...

Page 97: ...controlled by the PnP BIOS Intel s Configuration ManagerTM or any other PnP configuration software e g Microsoft Chicago Load the PnP Configuration Manager in the CONFIG SYS file and reboot the system G 2 2 PnP ISA Mode Disabled AMINSTAL will detect the network interface with the Hardware ID in the base offset I O address 09h of the IEEE address ROM the IEEE address for the adapter card the I O ba...

Page 98: ...w the steps listed below 1 Run the AMINSTAL Utility to configure your network interface s I O base address IRQ channel and DMA channel Once you have completed the configuration of your network interface using AMINSTAL go to step 2 below to continue 2 Select the Continue button in the Configuration dialog box The Installation dialog box will appear 3 Select the desired network interface by highligh...

Page 99: ...S ODI directory i e a novell wkstn dosodi of the AMD NetWare driver diskette 6 Exit from AMINSTAL when the installation has completed Note The user may need to make modifications to autoexec bat using the AMD supplied sample autoexec net file as reference The installation of the NetWare DOS ODI client driver is now complete G 3 2 Installing The NDIS 2 01 Driver NDIS Network Driver Interface Specif...

Page 100: ... to install the NDIS 2 01 driver then do not use AMINSTAL to install the NDIS 2 01 driver 4 Highlight the NDIS 2 01 driver to install the driver Change the default path if necessary The default directory is C NDIS 5 Press the Continue button to complete the installation AMINSTAL will copy the selected driver file into the specified directory create a PROTOCOL INI file in the specified directory an...

Page 101: ...lled 4 Highlight the Packet driver to install the driver Change the default path if necessary The default directory is C PKTDRV 5 Press the Continue button to complete the installation AMINSTAL will copy the selected driver file into the specified directory and create a sample AUTOEXEC NET file in the specified directory AUTOEXEC NET contains the following PCNTPK INT 0x60 IOADDRESS ioaddress IRQ i...

Page 102: ... the display interface hardware VGA BIOS is they key to flat panel display support By reloading this component the physical display can be changed from CRT to flat panel or to a different flat panel Adastra BIOS Extensions initialize the unique features built into the NPC 486E The extensions can also include network boot functions or special customer requested features H 2 Running LB LB EXE is a D...

Page 103: ...eadable the VGA component can be reloaded with a minimum of effort by inserting the FlashFusion disk invoking LB and typing ENTER Command line option switches are used to change the default settings and allow System BIOS to be reprogrammed LB command line option switches are of the form O or O or O where O is the either V E or S These switches enable or disable the default loading of VGA Extension...

Page 104: ...is read into the Update Buffer H 3 2 Load All BIOS Components A short cut which will cause all components to be updated from a single file The file should contain all components LB will issue error messages for missing components H 3 3 Clear All BIOS Components Sets all components to No update H 3 4 Save Old BIOS Copies the contents of the BIOS memory device into the file BIOS OLD This can be used...

Page 105: ...le The second line includes a description of the file This description starts with three characters which denote what components are included in the file V signifies VGA BIOS component E signifies Adastra Extension BIOS and S signifies System BIOS If a component is absent a is used For example V describes a VGA only component and VES describes an image which contains all components The rest of the...

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