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Chapter 1. Introduction
Thank you for choosing NOVA-8890 SOCKET 478 Pentium 4/4-M Single Board
Computer. NOVA-8890 board is a 5.25” embedded form factor board equipped
with high performance processor and multi-mode I/O designed for the system
manufacturers, integrators, or VARs that needs reliable and quality performance
at a reasonable price.
In addition, the VGA controller of NOVA-8890 Built-in AGP4X VGA (Intel 845G/GV)
has 3D graphics capability, which provides up to 2048x1536x16-color resolution.
The onboard VGA shares 8MB system DDR-SDRAM.
An advanced high performance super AT I/O chip–ITE IT8712 & Winbond W83627
are used in the NOVA-8890 board. On-chip UARTs are compatible with
NS16C550. The parallel port and IDE interface are compatible with IBM PC/AT
architecture.
NOVA-8890 has built-in (ICH4) 10/100 & Onboard Intel 82540EM 100/1000 Fast
Ethernet LAN. They are fully integrated 10BASE-T/100BASE-TX/1000BASE-TX
LAN solution with high performance networking functions as well as low power
consumption feature.
NOVA-8890 uses Intel 845G/GV chipsets that are 100% software compatible and
are of PCI 2.2 standard.
