Advantech CA-6178F-00B1, User Manual

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2 PCA-6178 User's Manual
1.1 Introduction
The PCA-6178 Series all-in-one industrial grade CPU card uses Intel's
highly acclaimed Pentium
®
III/ Celeron ™ processor, together with the
Intel 440BX PCI chipset. The card works with standard ISA or
PCI/ISA-bus passive backplanes.
The CPU provides 256 KB/128 KB on-CPU L2 cache, eliminating the
need for external SRAM chips. It has two PCI EIDE interfaces (for up
to four devices) and a floppy disk drive interface (for up to two
devices). Other features include two RS-232 serial ports (16C550
UARTs with 16-byte FIFO or compatible), one enhanced parallel port
(supports EPP/ECP) and two USB (Universal Serial Bus) ports. The
PCI enhanced IDE controller supports Ultra DMA/33 and PIO Mode 4
operation. This provides data transfer rates of over 33 MB/sec.
System BIOS supports boot-up from an IDE CD-ROM, SCSI CD-ROM,
LS-120, FDD, IDE HDD, SCSI CD-ROM, and ZIP-100.
A backup of CMOS data is stored in the Flash memory, which protects
data even after a battery failure. Also included is a 63-level watchdog
timer, which resets the CPU or generates an interrupt if a program
cannot be executed normally. This enables reliable operation in
unattended environments.
The PCA-6178 Series offers several impressive industrial features such
as a VGA (AGP) controller, a PCI Ultra2 SCSI controller, a 10/100Base-T
networking controller, three DIMM slots for a total of 768 MB RAM
memory, and an ISA High Drive. In addition, the PCA-6178 Series
supports a solid state disk (SSD) using M-Systems Corporation's
DiskOnChip
®
2000 Flash disk, for up to 144 MB of non-volatile, reliable
memory that is not vulnerable to the hazards of an industrial comput-
ing environment. All these make it an ideal choice for applications that
require both high performance and full functionality.
Note: Some of the features mentioned above are not
available with all models. For more information about
the specifications of a particular model, see Section
1.3: Specifications.