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Chapter 2

Product Overview

LittleBoard 800

Reference Manual

800R

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JP1

J14

JP3

JP4

JP5

J10

J23

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M

J19

JP6

J11

J12

J17

JP7

JP2

J15

U19

U18

U15

JP19

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U13

U23

U32

L16

U25

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5

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7

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Q21

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U24

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2

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J13

J21

J16

CompactFlash
Voltage (JP3)

CMOS
Normal/Clear
(JP19)

CompactFlash
Master/Slave (JP2)

Serial Port 3
RS485
Termination
(JP6)

Serial Port 4 RS485
Termination (JP7)

Serial Port 1
RS485
Termination
(JP4)

Serial Port 2
RS485
Termination
(JP5)

Figure 2-7. Jumpers and Fuse Locations (Top view)

Additional Components

The fuse in Table 2-6 is shown in Figure 2-7.

Table 2-6. Additional Component Descriptions

Component

Description

F1 (1.5A) Auto Reset

Overcurrent Fuse for the CRT on connector J3

Summary of Contents for LittleBoard 800

Page 1: ...LittleBoard 800 Single Board Computer Reference Manual P N 5001743A Revision A...

Page 2: ...out obligation to notify any person of such revisions If errors are found please contact Ampro at the address listed below on the Notice page of this document TRADEMARKS Ampro and the Ampro logo are r...

Page 3: ...cifications 17 Thermal Cooling Requirements 17 Mechanical Specifications 18 Chapter 3 Hardware 21 Overview 21 CPU U1 22 Memory 22 DDR DIMM Memory DIMM1 22 Flash Memory U13 22 Interrupt Channel Assignm...

Page 4: ...OS Setup Serial Console 60 BIOS Menus 61 BIOS Setup Opening Screen 61 BIOS Configuration Screen 62 Drive Configurations and Boot Options 62 User Interface Options 65 Memory Control Options 66 Power Ma...

Page 5: ...Signal Descriptions J2 25 Table 3 5 PC 104 Interface Pin Signal Descriptions J1A 29 Table 3 6 PC 104 Interface Pin Signal Descriptions J1B 30 Table 3 7 PC 104 Interface Pin Signal Descriptions J1C 31...

Page 6: ...al LittleBoard 800 Table 4 1 BIOS Setup Menus 60 Table 4 2 Floppy Drive BIOS Settings 63 Table 4 3 LCD Panel Type List 70 Table A 1 Technical Support Contact Information 77 Table C 1 Connector and Man...

Page 7: ...ustry standard busses and signals Reference Material The following list of reference materials may be helpful for you to complete your design successfully Most of this reference material is also avail...

Page 8: ...chase and utilize a LittleBoard 800 QuickStart Kit or Development System LittleBoard 800 Support Products LittleBoard 800 QuickStart Kit QSK The QuickStart Kit includes the LittleBoard 800 RAM an I O...

Page 9: ...ingle PC 104 or PC 104 Plus form factor 3 6 x 3 8 inches modules feature 486 VIA Eden Celeron and Celeron M CPUs Each CoreModule includes a full complement of PC core logic functions plus disk control...

Page 10: ...ssors from VIA Eden ESP to Pentium M CPUs in an ETX form factor to plug into your custom baseboard Each ETX module provides standard peripherals including dual Ultra DMA 33 66 100 IDE floppy drive int...

Page 11: ...nto space constrained environments with off the shelf components The EBX standard boasts highly flexible and adaptable system expansion allowing easy and modular addition of functions such as addition...

Page 12: ...orts a EPP ECP parallel port four USB 2 0 ports PS 2 keyboard and mouse interfaces floppy and two Ultra DMA 33 66 100 IDE controllers supporting two IDE drives each independent 10 100BaseT and 10 100...

Page 13: ...ipherals Supports IDE native and ATA compatibility modes Provides CompactFlash socket Supports Type I or Type II cards Supports CompactFlash Card Supports secondary IDE bus with Master Slave jumper Su...

Page 14: ...integrated LEDs on each port Link Activity and Speed Provides Intel 82551ER and 82541 GI PI controller chips Supports IEEE 802 3 10 100BaseT and 10 100 1000BaseT compatible physical layers Supports Au...

Page 15: ...Southbridge 82801 DBM DDR SDRAM DIMM LVDS Connector Super I O 1 LPC47B272 Flash BIOS Memory FWH AC 97 CODEC Gigabit Ethernet Controller 82541 GI PI PC 104 Plus Bus Connector PCI ISA Bridge PC 104 Conn...

Page 16: ...me of the I O functions I O Functions Super I O 1 2 U14 U16 SMSC LPC47B272 The remaining I O controller functions I O Functions Ethernet Controllers U9 U11 Intel 82551ER 82541 GI PI 10 100BaseT and 10...

Page 17: ...800 Reference Manual 11 LB800RF_02a U16 U14 U11 U9 U41 U43 U17 U20 U21 U29 U22 U33 Q15 D14 Y7 Y1 U10 Gigabit Ethernet U11 10 100 Ethernet U9 Super I O 1 U14 Super I O 2 U16 PCI to ISA Bridge U41 Figu...

Page 18: ...Utility 3 10 pin connector for USB2 and USB3 ports bi direction J15 Utility 1 16 pin connector for keyboard external battery reset switch speaker J16 Parallel 26 pin connector for parallel port J17 F...

Page 19: ...rnet Port 1 J23 Primary IDE J6 Utility 1 J15 CRT J3 PC 104 Plus J2 Serial A J11 Serial Ports 1 2 CompactFlash Socket J8 Floppy J17 Utility 2 J13 Parallel J16 Utility 3 J14 Optional CPU J21 Fan Board G...

Page 20: ...hed A flashing LED indicates active data transfers Ethernet Speed LED Speed LED This green LED is the Speed indictor and indicates transmit or receive speed of Ethernet port 2 J10 A steady On LED indi...

Page 21: ...2 Y5 Y3 U39 U3 J13 J21 J16 Q2 Q9 Q5 D6 Q1 CompactFlash Voltage JP3 CMOS Normal Clear JP19 CompactFlash Master Slave JP2 Serial Port 3 RS485 Termination JP6 Serial Port 4 RS485 Termination JP7 Serial P...

Page 22: ...ould increase this dimension Environmental Specifications Table 2 8 provides the most efficient operating and storage condition ranges required for this board Table 2 8 Environmental Requirements Para...

Page 23: ...measured using with 128MB DDR PC2700 RAM video Ampro I O Interface board floppy 1 IDE HDD 1 PS 2 keyboard mouse 4 Serial loopbacks externally powered USB CD ROM 1 externally powered USB HDD 1 USB Jum...

Page 24: ..._01d J26 J3 J9 J14 J1 J8 J10 J23 DIMM1 J19 J7 J6 J2 J11 J12 J17 J15 J13 J21 J16 0 0 0 0 0 200 2 800 0 575 1 875 0 0 2 700 3 500 6 350 7 600 7 800 7 600 7 535 5 350 0 0 0 200 0 275 3 200 0 100 3 100 0...

Page 25: ...10 J23 DIMM1 J19 J7 J6 J2 J11 J12 J17 J15 J13 J21 J16 1 945 0 0 0 0 0 200 2 800 0 0 7 600 7 800 6 465 0 0 3 395 0 060 0 200 2 650 5 550 5 700 5 350 0 155 4 250 5 800 5 350 7 600 7 500 0 200 0 850 1 65...

Page 26: ...Chapter 2 Product Overview 20 Reference Manual LittleBoard 800...

Page 27: ...r USB SMBus Infrared IrDA Ethernet Interfaces J10 J23 Audio Interface J5 CRT LVDS Video Interfaces J3 J4 Miscellaneous Time of Day RTC Temperature Monitoring Oops Jumper BIOS recovery Serial Console W...

Page 28: ...m architecture and requires a heatsink but no fan Pentium M Processor The 1 4GHz Pentium M 738 processor Dothan core has 2MB L2 Cache on board with a 400MHz FSB This Pentium M 738 processor uses 90nm...

Page 29: ...Primary X IDE Secondary X Math Coprocessor X PS 2 Mouse X PCI INTA O O O D O O O O O O O O PCI INTB O O O O O O D O O O O O PCI INTC O O O D O O O O O O O O PCI INTD O O O O O O D O O O O O PCI INTE...

Page 30: ...ess hex Subsystem 000 00F Primary DMA Controller 020 021 Master Interrupt Controller 040 043 Programmable Interrupt Timer Clock Timer 060 06F Keyboard Controller 070 07F CMOS RAM NMI Mask Reg RT Clock...

Page 31: ...AD11 T S Address Data Bus Line 11 Refer to pin A3 for more information 7 A7 AD14 T S Address Data Bus Line 14 Refer to pin A3 for more information 8 A8 3 3V 3 3 volts 5 power supply input 9 A9 SERR O...

Page 32: ...eporting data parity errors 41 B11 3 3V 3 3 volts 5 power supply input 42 B12 TRDY S T S Target Ready This signal indicates the selected device s ability to complete the current cycle of transaction B...

Page 33: ...ne 17 Refer to pin A3 for more information 76 C16 GND Ground 77 C17 AD22 T S Address Data Bus Line 22 Refer to pin A3 for more information 78 C18 IDSEL1 Initialization Device Select 1 Refer to pin A18...

Page 34: ...tion 112 D22 AD31 T S Address Data Bus Line 31 Refer to pin A3 for more information 113 D23 VI O 5 volts 5 Reference voltage only 114 D24 GNT0 T S Grant 0 Refer to pin A25 for more information 115 D25...

Page 35: ...mal state is active high ready ISA boards drive the signal inactive low not ready to insert wait states Devices using this signal to insert wait states should drive it low immediately after detecting...

Page 36: ...DACK2 line is active 39 B7 12V 12 volt power Supplied externally or through PC 104 bus 40 B8 ZWS Zero Wait State This signal is driven low by a bus slave device to indicate it is capable of performin...

Page 37: ...interrupt request Only one device may use this request line at a time 57 B25 IRQ3 Interrupt Request 3 Asserted by a device when it has pending interrupt request Only one device may use this request li...

Page 38: ...J1D Pin Signal Descriptions J1 Row D 21 D0 GND Ground 22 D1 MEMCS16 Memory Chip Select 16 This is signal is driven low by a memory slave device to indicates it is cable of performing a 16 bit memory...

Page 39: ...held high until associated DACK6 line is active 35 D14 DACK7 DMA Acknowledge 7 Used by DMA controller to select the I O resource requesting the bus or to request ownership of the bus as a bus master d...

Page 40: ...15 provide the disk data signals 7 PD5 Primary Disk Data 5 These signals 0 to 15 provide the disk data signals 8 PD10 Primary Disk Data 10 These signals 0 to 15 provide the disk data signals 9 PD4 Pri...

Page 41: ...6 Sense Senses which DMA mode to use for IDE devices 35 PDA0 Primary ATA Disk Address Used 0 to 2 to indicate which byte in the ATA command block or control block is being accessed 36 PDA2 Primary ATA...

Page 42: ...data from a register or data port of the drive onto the host data bus Positive edge latches data at the host 24 GND Ground 25 SDIOR Secondary I O Read Write Strobe Strobe signal for read functions Ne...

Page 43: ...escription 1 GND Ground 2 SD3 Secondary Disk Data 3 These signals D0 D15 carry the Data Commands and Status between the host and the controller D0 is the LSB of the even Byte of the Word D8 is the LSB...

Page 44: ...his signal is generated by the host and clocks the I O data on the Card Data bus into the CompactFlash card controller registers when the card is configured to use the I O interface The clock occurs o...

Page 45: ...Not connected 6 DRVEN0 Drive Floppy Density Select 0 8 INDEX Index Sense to detect that the head is positioned over the beginning of a track 10 MTR0 Motor Control 0 Select motor on drive 0 12 NC Not C...

Page 46: ...e I O in ECP EPP mode 7 PD2 I O Parallel Port Data 2 Refer to pin 3 for more information 8 SLIN Out Select In This output signal is used to select the printer I O pin in ECP EPP mode 9 PD3 I O Paralle...

Page 47: ...ndard for any serial port Refer to Table 2 5 for termination jumper settings To implement the two wire RS485 mode on any serial port you must tie the equivalent pins together for each port For example...

Page 48: ...low level flow control RX1 If in RS485 or RS422 mode this pin is Receive Data 1 7 4 DTR1 Data Terminal Ready 1 Indicates this Serial port is powered initialized and ready Used as hardware handshake w...

Page 49: ...Data Set Ready 3 Indicates external serial communications device is powered initialized and ready Used as hardware handshake with DTR3 for overall readiness to communicate 3 2 RXD3 RX3 Receive Data 3...

Page 50: ...l output port 4 is ready to transmit data Used as hardware handshake with CTS4 for low level flow control TX4 If in RS485 or RS422 mode this pin is Transmit Data 4 15 3 TXD4 TX4 Transmit Data 4 Serial...

Page 51: ...ive connectors such as keyboard speaker etc Table 3 17 gives the pin outs and interface signals for Utility 1 interface and has 16 pins 2 rows odd even 1 2 with 0 100 pin spacing Keyboard Battery Rese...

Page 52: ...tional backup battery from an external source It can also be used in place of the on board backup battery B1 shipped with all LittleBoard 800s Each RTS battery input is protected with a zener diode 16...

Page 53: ...e are two basic infrared implementations provided the Hewlett Packard Serial Infrared HPSIR and the Amplitude Shift Keyed Infrared ASKIR methods HPSIR is a serial implementation of infrared developed...

Page 54: ...IrDA Transceiver 6 IRRX I IR Receive Data This signal comes from external IrDA Transceiver 7 GND Ground 8 VCC 5 Volts 9 MDATA I O Mouse Data Data signal provided to external mouse connector 10 MCLK I...

Page 55: ...ub and two USB ports on this connector USB V2 0 and Universal UHCI V1 1 compatible Integrated physical layer transceivers Over current detection status on the USB port software NOTE Ampro does not rec...

Page 56: ...half duplex support Full duplex support at 10Mbps and 100Mbps In half duplex mode performance is enhanced by a proprietary collision reduction mechanism IEEE 802 3 10BaseT 100BaseT compatible physica...

Page 57: ...ler delivers high performance PCI bus efficiency with wide internal data paths to eliminate performance bottlenecks by efficiently handling large address and data words This controller includes advanc...

Page 58: ...1 MDI0 2 MDI0 Media Dependent Interface 0 1000BaseT In MDI configuration MDI0 corresponds to BI_DA and in MDI X configuration MDI0 corresponds to BI_DB 10 100BaseT In MDI configuration MDI0 is used fo...

Page 59: ...Pin Signal Descriptions J9 Pin Signal Description 1 VIDEO_L Video Audio signal in left channel 2 VIDEO_GND Video Audio ground 3 VIDEO_R Video Audio signal in right channel 4 CD_L CD ROM signal left ch...

Page 60: ...els with 9 12 or 18 bit 1 Pixel Clock Supports 1 or 2 channel LVDS outputs CRT Interface Table 3 23 describes the pin outs and signals of the CRT interface and it has 10 pins 2 rows odd even 1 2 with...

Page 61: ...a Positive Output 14 LVDS_IYBM0 Data Negative Output 0 Channel 2 15 LVDS_PANELBKLTCTL Control Panel Backlight NA NA 16 LVDS_PANELVDDEN Enable Panel Power NA NA 17 CLK_LVDS_IYAP Clock Positive Output 1...

Page 62: ...jumper short together the DTR 7 and RI 8 pins on Serial A J11 header for Serial Port 1 As an alternate short the equivalent pins 4 and 9 on the Serial Port 1 DB9 connector as shown in Figure 3 2 Seria...

Page 63: ...enough time for the boot process to complete and for the OS to boot The OS or application must tickle turnoff the WDT as soon as it comes up This can be done by accessing the hardware directly or thro...

Page 64: ...nly voltage required for operation 2 GND Ground 3 GND Ground 4 12V 12 Volts This 12 volts is for the PC 104 PC 104 Plus and LVDS power only 5 3 3V 3 3 Volts This 3 3 volts is for PC 104 Plus Bus power...

Page 65: ...is located in the ROM BIOS and can be accessed when prompted using the Del key while the board is in the Power On Self Test POST state just before completing the boot process The screen displays a me...

Page 66: ...800 4 Start Setup by pressing the Ctl c keys when the following message appears on the boot screen Hit C if you want to run SETUP 5 Use the Enter key to select the screen menus listed in the Opening B...

Page 67: ...ter to select menu item C Copyright 2005 Ampro Computers Inc http www ampro com Help for BIOS and Hardware Settings LB800_1stscrn Figure 4 1 Opening BIOS Screen NOTE For the most current BIOS Informat...

Page 68: ...nth day of the month and all 4 digits of the year including the century plus year 26 May 2005 Time hh mm ss This requires 24 hour Clock setting in hours minutes and seconds Drive Configurations and Bo...

Page 69: ...upplied there is only one physical connector available Floppy A connector because the Floppy B connector is not available NOTE Ampro does not recommend connecting a USB boot device to the LittleBoard...

Page 70: ...rive and Boot Options Floppy Seek Disabled or Enabled Hard disk Seek Disabled or Enabled Floppy Swap Disabled or Enabled Boot Method Boot Sector or Windows CE Boot Sector is the traditional method for...

Page 71: ...15cps 12cps 10cps 8cps or 6cps This is a keyboard field and determines the rate in characters per second the keyboard controller will repeat a key if the key is held down on the keyboard Initialize PS...

Page 72: ...ess to the memory addresses inside the memory hole region are forwarded to the PC 104 bus where memory mapped PC 104 devices have access Shadow D000 D3FF Disabled or Enabled These Shadow fields specif...

Page 73: ...or 2 Use the modified serial cable described in Chapter 3 under Hot Serial Cable SMM Support Disabled or Enabled This field was created to disable all SMI System Management Interrupt activity This fea...

Page 74: ...is field specifies the signal mode RS232 or RS485 used for Serial Port 1 If RS 485 mode is selected the RTS signal should be used to control the direction for this port transmit or receive Serial 2 Di...

Page 75: ...abled then no DMA channel is assigned making it available for other devices Mode Standard SPP bi dir EPP 1 9 SPP EPP 1 7 ECP EPP 1 9 ECP or ECP This field specifies the Mode used for the Parallel Port...

Page 76: ...the secondary video controller allowing you to use two separate video controllers and displays If this field is set to Enabled the on board video controller will not be initialized by the BIOS if anot...

Page 77: ...Enabled If this field is set to Enabled the BIOS makes the Plug and Play API available for Plug and Play Operating Systems This allows the Plug and Play OS to get the Plug and Play information by call...

Page 78: ...a Plug and Play adapter If another device in the system is using this IRQ then this field should be set to Disabled Assign IRQ 11 Disabled or Enabled Typically ISA Bridge Native IDE If this field is s...

Page 79: ...to Disabled Assign DMA 3 Disabled or Enabled If this field is set to Enabled then the BIOS can assign this DMA channel to a Plug and Play adapter If another device in the system is using this DMA chan...

Page 80: ...reen image supported by the LittleBoard 800 BIOS should be Bitmap image Exactly 640x480 pixels Exactly 16 colors A converted file size of not greater than 55kB Converting the Splash Screen File The fo...

Page 81: ...not approximately 153 718 bytes in size it is probably not in the right format or is too complex to be used in the BIOS You will have to edit it down in size until you have reached an acceptable file...

Page 82: ...Chapter 4 BIOS Setup 76 Reference Manual LittleBoard 800...

Page 83: ...rsonal assistance by going to the Ask a Question area in the Virtual Technician Requests can be submitted 24 hours a day 7 days a week You will receive immediate confirmation that your request has bee...

Page 84: ...Appendix A Technical Support 78 Reference Manual LittleBoard 800...

Page 85: ...ReadyBoard to the network and powering it on The server can be set up to detect new devices and install software automatically thereby greatly simplifying the management of small to large numbers of...

Page 86: ...n for Preboot Execution Environment PXE Accessing PXE Boot Agent BIOS Setup To access PXE Boot Agent BIOS Setup when LAN Boot has been selected in the LittleBoard 800 BIOS Setup screen refer to this p...

Page 87: ...or timeout Boot Failure Next boot device Figure B 1 PXE Agent Boot Setup Screen PXE Configuration Boot Method PXE TCP IP NetWare or RPL Default Boot Local or Network Local Boot Disabled or Enabled Con...

Page 88: ...ssage Timeout 3 seconds 6 seconds 12 seconds or Forever Boot Failure Prompt Wait for timeout or Wait for key Boot Failure Next boot device or Reboot RPL Configuration Boot Method PXE TCP IP NetWare or...

Page 89: ...le 9L28016 MMT PHYCO Housing IDCA001 F1002GFT K Housing 1100 20 J11 J12 Serial A B 20 pin Belden 9L28020 J26 Video LVDS 30 pin 2mm Samtec TMM 115 02 L D See Note Below 3M Amphenol Housing 3626 6600 Ho...

Page 90: ...Appendix C Connector Part Numbers 84 Reference Manual LittleBoard 800...

Page 91: ...features 60 USB Boot settings 69 USB CD ROM setup 63 USB connections 63 USB device requirements 62 USB floppy settings 63 User interface settings 65 Video settings 70 watchdog timer WDT 57 67 boot dev...

Page 92: ...on 74 USB Boot 62 63 USB Boot settings 67 Utility 1 interface features 45 Utility 2 interface features 46 Utility 3 interface features 49 video interface features 54 Video settings 70 voltage requirem...

Page 93: ...ISA bus 7 29 jumpers on board 14 LAN Boot 9 68 79 LVDS interface 55 memory 7 22 memory map 23 on board battery 8 on board CRT fuse 15 Oops jumper BIOS recovery 9 56 Parallel port 1 7 40 PC 104 bus 7 2...

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