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2-4 Intel
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Pentium
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III Processor/840 Development Kit Manual
Getting Started
2.3 Software Key Features
The software in the kit was chosen to facilitate development of real-time applications based on the
components used on the evaluation board. The software tools included in your kit are described in
this section.
Refer to the letter included in your kit for up-to-date information on other vendors offering
development software for this kit.
Note: Software in the kit is provided free by the vendor and is licensed only for evaluation purposes.
Refer to the documentation in your evaluation kit for further details on any terms and conditions
that may be applicable to the granted licenses. Customers using the tools that work with Microsoft
products must have licensed those products. Any targets created by those tools should also have
appropriate licenses. Software included in the kit is subject to change.
Refer to http://developer.intel.com/design/intarch/devkits for details on additional software from
other third party vendors.
2.3.1 Embedded BIOS* for the Intel
®
Pentium
®
III Processor/840
Development Kit
The Intel Pentium
III
Processor/840 Development Kit ships pre-installed with Embedded BIOS*
pre-boot firmware from General Software. Embedded BIOS provides an industry-standard BIOS
platform to run any standard operating system, including DOS*, Windows* NT, NT Embedded*,
Windows 95/98, Windows CE, QNX*, VxWorks*, and Linux*, among others. The Embedded
BIOS Adaptation Kit (available separately) includes complete source code, a reference manual,
and a Window’s-based expert system, BIOStart* to enable easy and rapid configuration of
customized firmware for your Intel Pentium
III
processor/840 development kit.
The following features of Embedded BIOS have been enabled in the Intel Pentium III Processor/
840 Development Kit:
•
SMP BIOS supports dual Pentium
III
processors (up to 866 MHz)
•
RDRAM detection, configuration, and initialization with ECC
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Intel 840 chipset (MCH, ICH, and P64H) configuration
•
Firmware Hub with security
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POST codes displayed to POST code monitor
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Two serial ports, one EPP/ECP parallel port
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PCI bus and device enumeration and configuration
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AGP configuration and initialization
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SMC LPC Super I/O programming
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Integrated Debugger
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Burn-In Diagnostics
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Console Redirection
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Manufacturing Mode