Technical Specifications
4 – Overview
VL-486-4 Reference Manual
Technical Specifications
Size:
Meets all STD 80 and STD 32 Bus mechanical specifications
Storage Temperature:
-40
°
C to 85
°
C
Free Air Operating Temperature:
0
°
C to 65
°
C
Power Requirements:
(with 8 MB RAM and 1 MB Flash installed)
5V ±5% @ 800 ma
System Reset:
Vcc sensing, resets below 4.7V
Watchdog reset (jumper option)
LPT1/Parallel Interface:
IBM AT and PS/2 Compatible (Bi-directional)
Data Lines:
Output low voltage:
0.5V @ 24 ma
Output high voltage:
2.4V @ -12 ma
Control Lines:
Output low voltage:
0.5V @ 24 ma
Output high voltage:
2.4V @ -150 µA
COM1 & COM2 Interfaces:
IBM AT and PS/2 Compatible
COM2 configurable as RS-232/422/485
Digital I/O (Opto 22) Interface:
16 lines of bi-directional TTL compatible I/O with Rack Power output
Data Lines:
Input high voltage:
2.0V min., 5.3V max.
Input low voltage:
-0.3V min., 0.8V max.
Output low voltage:
0.5V @ 3.2 ma
Output high voltage:
2.4V @ -250
µ
A
Rack Power:
+5V @ 1A Max. (protected with self resettable polyfuse)
Floppy Disk Drive Interface:
None
Hard Disk Drive Interface:
None
Software provided to network CPU with desktop IBM PC via RS-232
Memory Sockets:
RAM:
Two sockets (sequentially addressed):
42-pin SOJ JEDEC; 1Mx16, or 1Mx18 Dynamic RAM
ROM:
Two sockets (64K paged):
32-pin PLCC JEDEC; 128x8, 256x8, 512x8 KB EPROMs or Flash EEPROMs
Memory Speed: (on-board):
RAM: 70 ns
EPROM and Flash EEPROM: 200 ns or faster
Bus Compatibility:
STD 80: Full compliance, 8.33 MHz bus speed
STD 32: Permanent Master; SA16, SA8-I, MB, MX
STD 32: Temporary Master; SA16, SA8-I, MB, {MX}
Specifications are subject to change without notice.