WinSystems EBC-BX, Руководство по эксплуатации

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EBC- BX Tech ni cal Ref er ence
2.1 In tro duc tion
This sec tion of the man ual is in tended to pro vide suf fi cient in for ma tion re gard ing the con figu ra tion
and us age of the EBC- BX board. Win Sys tems main tains a Tech ni cal Sup port group to help an swer
ques tions re gard ing con figu ra tion, us age, or pro gram ming of the board. For an swers to ques tions not
ade quately ad dressed in this man ual, con tact Tech ni cal Sup port at (817) 274- 7553 be tween 8AM and
5PM Cen tral Time.
2.2 In tel FW82443BX / SMSC Victory-66 Chipset
The EBC- BX util izes the In tel FW82443BX North bridge cou pled with the SMSC Victory- 66
South bridge. This com bined chipset pro vides a highly- integrated, high- performance back bone f or full
Pen tium class com pati bil ity. The Chipset con tains the logic for DRAM and bus state con trol as well as
the stan dard com ple ment of 'AT' class pe riph er als, in clud ing :
Two-82C37 DMA con trol lers
Two-82C59 In ter rupt controllers
82C54 Timer/Counter
Real Time Clock
En hanced Power Man age ment
Full Plug and Play compatibility
These func tional units are 100% PC/AT com pati ble and are sup ported by the Award BIOS and
setup. Us ers de sir ing to ac cess these in ter nal pe riph er als di rectly should ref er to any manu fac tur ers ge -
neric lit era ture on the equiva lent dis crete com po nent.
There are a number of in ter nal reg is ters within the BX chipset that are used by the BIOS for con trol
and con figu ra tion. Ref er to the I/O map in Ap pen dix A for port us age to avoid con flicts when add ing ex -
ter nal I/O de vices.
2.3 Mem ory In stal la tion
The EBC- BX sup ports a sin gle user instal la ble 168- pin stan dard DIMM. DIMM mod ules should be
a mini mum speed of PC- 100 and x64 or x 72. Ei ther ECC on non- ECC parts may be used. A sin gle
DIMM socket is pro vided which can sup port SDRAM sizes from 32MB to 256MB. For a list of quali -
fied DIMMs, go to
http://www.win sys tems.com/memory
In stal la tion is ac com plished with power off by in sert ing the DIMM mod ule di rectly into the con -
nec tor at M1. The DIMM mod ule is keyed in 2 places and can not be in serted back wards with out ex -
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