
©2004 Inova Computers GmbH
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Product Overview
ICP-CM
1.01 Interfacing
To satisfy today’s LAN-hungry industrial applications, Inova have implemented dual, independent
100BaseTx LAN Fast Ethernet interfaces as standard on the CPU’s front-panel - or fed to a rear I/O
transition module on the backplane. Connectivity is further enhanced through the integration of
the latest USB 2.0 serial interfaces that permit a number of readily available peripherals such as
mouse, keyboard, floppy drives and even CD-ROMs or printers to be utilized without compromizing
front panel width.
1.02 Peripherals
The ICP-CM supports standard PC peripherals – floppy disk, hard disk and CD ROM. Notebook
style hard disks may be connected directly to the base-board (2-slot) and possess their own front-
panel offering COM ports and combined PS-2 style connector for mouse and keyboard.
1.03 Software
The following operating systems are compatible with Inova’s CM, 3U CompactPCI CPU:
N
Linux
N
Windows
®
2000
N
Windows
®
XP
N
Windows
®
NT
®
& VenturCom RTX
®
(Real-Time Extension) - On request
N
Windows
®
CE - On request
N
Windows
®
9x - On request
N
Windriver VxWorks
®
- On request
N
QNX
®
- On request
N
Esmeralda Technology Jbed
®
(under development - On request)
N
Solaris x86 - On request
All readily available application software designed for operation on the standard x86 architecture
will execute without modification.
1.04 Graphics
Built in to the ICP-CM chipset is an analog VGA interface with BIOS configurable video RAM
allocation extracted from the system memory.
Inova have also developed a number of ATI Radeon R7000-based dedicated AGP plug-in modules
complete with video controller and RAM etc. for graphic intensive applications or to provide
greater display flexibility.
Depending on the selected module, MPEG-2 decoding, sound functions, GigaST
)
R for distrib-
uted display communication, PanelLink or TFT flat-panel connectivity can be easily implemented.