VULCAN Technical Manual
Contents
© 2007 Eurotech Ltd Issue D
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Contents
Introduction ........................................................................................................................................4
VULCAN ‘at a glance’ ............................................................................................................5
VULCAN features ..................................................................................................................6
VULCAN support products.....................................................................................................9
Handling your board safely ..................................................................................................10
About this manual ............................................................................................................................11
Conventions.........................................................................................................................11
Related documents..............................................................................................................12
Getting started .................................................................................................................................13
Using the VULCAN ..............................................................................................................13
Detailed hardware description .........................................................................................................15
VULCAN block diagram.......................................................................................................15
IXP425 network processor...................................................................................................16
IXP425 GPIO pin assignments ............................................................................................18
VULCAN address map ........................................................................................................19
Expansion bus .....................................................................................................................21
PCI bus ................................................................................................................................22
Real time clock ....................................................................................................................23
Tamper detect circuit............................................................................................................24
Watchdog timers ..................................................................................................................25
Silicon serial number............................................................................................................27
Memory................................................................................................................................28
Interrupt assignments ..........................................................................................................29
General purpose I/O ............................................................................................................30
Data communications ..........................................................................................................31
Expansion interfaces............................................................................................................35
Power and power management.......................................................................................................37
Power supplies ....................................................................................................................37
Power management.............................................................................................................38
Connectors, LEDs and jumpers.......................................................................................................41
Connectors and headers......................................................................................................42
Jumpers ...............................................................................................................................49
Status LEDs .........................................................................................................................51
Appendix A - Contacting Eurotech ...................................................................................................52
Appendix B - Specification ...............................................................................................................52
Appendix C - Mechanical diagram...................................................................................................54
Appendix D - Reference information................................................................................................55
Appendix E - Acronyms and abbreviations ......................................................................................57
Index ................................................................................................................................................59
