KONTRON
CoolMONSTER/S User’s Guide
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Introduction
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coolMONSTER PISA® Family
coolMONSTER products represent the best scaleable half-size Slot SBC family. Each coolMONSTER
module is characterized by the same mechanical and electrical pin-out for the Keyboard, COM A-D,
Sound, IrDA, EIDE 40pin and 44pin, LPT, LAN, VGA, USB, and Floppy. These homogeneous features
make upgrades easier within the Kontron Embedded Modules GmbH coolMONSTER product family.
PISA® is the proven space-saving concept that provides full PCI and ISA bus signals on just half-
size Slot boards. The ancestors were fully sized PICMG boards that had PCI and ISA card edges in a
row. PISA squeezed them to just half-size, which still serves full PCI and ISA buses, which enabled
smaller and cheaper enclosures when possible while maintaining all PCI and ISA periphery.
Whenever a LCD panel is required, coolMONSTER products with onboard graphics controllers are the
right choice. Display connections are simplified when using these units, which come with a JUMPtec
Intelligent LVDS Interface (JILI) or JUMPtec Intelligent Display Adaption (JIPA). The interface can
recognize which display is connected and then independently set all video parameters.
As part of the standard features package, all coolMONSTER modules come with a JUMPtec
Intelligent Device Architecture (JIDA) interface, which is integrated into the BIOS of the SBC
modules. This interface enables hardware independent access to coolMONSTER features that cannot
be accessed via standard APIs. Functions such as watchdog timer, brightness and contrast of LCD
backlight and user bytes in the EEPROM can be configured with ease by taking advantage of this
standard coolMONSTER module feature.
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