APOLLO Technical Manual
Getting started with your APOLLO
Connecting a CompactFlash card
The APOLLO has a single CF+ version 2.0 Type II CompactFlash socket that supports
both Type I and Type II CompactFlash cards. This provides support for magnetic disk
drive data storage and I/O cards such as Ethernet, serial, fax/modem, barcode scanner,
Bluetooth, 802.11b wireless LAN, wireless digital cell phone cards, and so on.
The CompactFlash socket is connected to the CardBus/PCMCIA controller. If a
CompactFlash card is plugged into the socket it acts as a normal hard disk drive and is
detected by the BIOS during the POST process. If the card has an operating system
loaded and is correctly configured to be bootable, it can be selected as a boot device
from the BIOS boot menu.
If you purchase the Arcom development kit with Windows XP Embedded, this is
supplied with a bootable 1GB CompactFlash card.
The CompactFlash card can only be inserted into the socket one way. The correct
orientation is for the top of the card (i.e. the normal printed side) to be furthest from the
PCB.
Connecting a keyboard
A PS/2 keyboard can be connected to the PS/2 MiniDIN Connector. See page
more information.
Connecting a mouse
A PS/2 mouse can be connected to the PS/2 MiniDIN Connector. See page
information.
A driver is included on the support CD to enable
a
mouse to be used under DOS.
(Windows XP provides
mouse support via built-in drivers.)
Using the serial interfaces (RS232)
The four serial port interfaces on the APOLLO are fully PC compatible:
COM1 and COM2 are decoded at standard PC address locations. PC applications
can use these ports without any special configuration.
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COM3 and COM4 are interfaced via a PCI based dual UART. The Windows and
Linux drivers provided on the APOLLO CD allow for the configuration of these
devices as standard serial ports.
The BIOS setup screens are used to configure the operation of each of the serial ports.
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