Ampro Little Board P6d, Reference Manual

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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. You
can install the Little Board P6d module, MiniModules, or conventional expansion boards, keyboard,
monitor, and I/O devices to quickly create a platform for your hardware and software engineering
needs.
The QuickStart Kit includes cables, documentation, and software needed to develop an application
with the Little Board. Unlike the Development Platform, you must supply the disk drives and
power supply. Technical drawings for the cables provided in the QuickStart Kit are included in
Appendix B.
There are other kits available from Ampro to aid in the development of your application. A Cable
Kit that includes only the Little Board P6d cable set is available.
To facilitate connections to the Little Board P6d utility connectors, Ampro provides the Little Board
P6d Utility I/O Development Board. Figure 1-1 is an illustration of the I/O Development board
showing the connectors and switches that are provided. It is included in the Development Platform
Kit and the QuickStart Kit.
Figure 1-1. I/O Development Board