Aaeon SBC-356 User manual

SBC-356
Half-size All-in-one 386SX-40 CPU card

FCC STATEMENT
THIS DEVICE COMPLIES WITH PART 15 FCC RULES.
OPERATIONISSUBJECT TOTHE FOLLOWINGTWO
CONDITIONS:(1) THISDEVICE MAY NOT CAUSE HARM-
FULINTERFERENCE. (2)THIS DEVICEMUST ACCEPT
ANYINTERFERENCE RECEIVEDINCLUDING INTERFER-
ENCETHATMAYCAUSE UNDESIRED OPERATION.
THIS EQUIPMENT HAS BEEN TESTED AND FOUND TO
COMPLY WITH THE LIMITS FOR A CLASS"A" DIGITAL
DEVICE, PURSUANT TO PART 15 OF THE FCC RULES.
THESE LIMITS ARE DESIGNED TO PROVIDE REASON-
ABLE PROTECTION AGAINTST HARMFUL INTERFER-
ENCE WHEN THE EQUIPMENT IS OPERATED IN A
COMMERCIAL ENVIRONMENT. THIS EQUIPMENT
GENERATES,USES, AND CAN RADIATE RADIO
FREQENCY ENERGYAND , IFNOT INSTATLLEDAND
USED IN ACCORDANCE WITH THE INSTRUCTION
MANUAL, MAY CAUSEHARMFUL INTERFERENCE TO
RADIO COMMUNICATIONS.OPERATION OF THIS
EQUIPMENT IN A RESIDENTIAL AREA IS LIKELY TO
CAUSE HARMFUL INTERFERENCE IN WHICH CASE
THE USER WILL BE REQUIRED TO CORRECT THE
INTERFERENCE AT HIS OWN EXPENSE.

Copyright Notice
This document is copyrighted, 1997, by AAEON Technology Inc.
All rights are reserved. AAEON Technology Inc. reserves the
right to make improvements to the products described in this
manual at any time without notice.
No part of this manual may be reproduced, copied, translated or
transmitted in any form or by any means without the prior written
permission of AAEON Technology Inc. Information provided in
this manual is intended to be accurate and reliable. However,
AAEON Technology Inc. assumes no responsibility for its use, nor
for any infringements upon the rights of third parties which may
result from its use.
AMI, Analog Device, Award, Burr-Brown, Carray, DR-DOS IBM,
AT, INM XT, Personal System/2, PS/2, Micro Channel, PC-DOS,
Inlog, Jactech, Microsoft, MS-DOS, NEC, Singular and TI are
Registered trademarks.
Part No. 2007356000 1st Edition
Printed in Taiwan Oct 1997

Packing list
Before you begin installing your card, please make sure that the
following materials have been shipped:
• 1 SBC-356 CPU card
• 1 6-pin mini-DIN dual outlet adapter for keyboard and PS/2
mouse
• 1 Hard disk drive (IDE) interface cable (40 pin)
• 1 Floppy disk drive interface cable (34 pin)
• 1 parallel port adapter (26-25 pin) and COM port (10-9 pin)
adapter kit
• 1 utility disk with VGA utility programs and drivers
If any of these items are missing or damaged, contact your
distributor or sales representative immediately.

Contents
1 General Information ........................... 1
Introduction ............................................................................ 2
Specifications .......................................................................... 3
Board layout ........................................................................... 5
Carddimensions ..................................................................... 6
2 Installation ........................................... 7
Jumpersandconnectors ........................................................ 8
Locating jumpers and connectors....................................... 10
Setting jumpers ......................................................................11
Safetyprecautions ................................................................ 12
Installing DRAM (SIMMs) .................................................. 13
Watchdogtimersetup(JP9,JP14) ....................................... 14
PS/2 Mouse Setup (JP8)....................................................... 17
FlashEPROMSelection(JP15)........................................... 17
COM4 Communication setup (JP1, JP12, JP13) .............. 18
IDEHardDiskI/F(CN10) ................................................... 19
Floppy disk Connector I/F (CN7) ....................................... 20
SerialcommunicationI/F
(CN17, CN14, CN15, CN16, CN 12) ................................... 21
ParallelPortI/F(CON2)...................................................... 23
VGA Monitor I/F (CN18) .................................................... 24
FlatPanelI/F(CN11)............................................................ 25
Cable and switch connections
(CN1, CN3, CN4, CN5, CN19, CN21, CN6) ...................... 26
DiskOnChip Installation (U9, JP11) ................................... 27

3 AMIBIOS Setup .................................... 29
Generalinformation............................................................. 30
StandardCMOSSetup ........................................................ 31
AdvancedCMOSSetup ....................................................... 33
AdvancedChipsetSetup ...................................................... 40
ChangeSuppervisorPassword ............................................ 41
Auto Configuration with Optimal settings......................... 41
Auto Configuration with Fail Safe settings ........................ 41
Save Settings and Exit .......................................................... 41
Exit Without saving .............................................................. 42
4 SVGA Setup ......................................... 43
Windows 3.1 .......................................................................... 44
Driverinstallation-Windows Setup........................................ 44
DOS ....................................................................................... 45
SOFTWAREUTILITIES ...................................................... 47
The CHIPSCPL utility program ............................................. 47
Installingtheutility .................................................................. 47
Howto use the uitlity ............................................................... 47
A Watchdog Timer Demo Program .... 49
B Installing PC/104 Modules ................. 51
Installing PC/104 modules ................................................... 52
C LCD Display BIOS Configuration ........ 55

Chapter 1 General Information 1
CHAPTER
1
GeneraI
Information
This chapter provides background
information for the SBC-356.
Sections include:
· Card specifications
·Board layout

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Introduction
The SBC-356 is an all-in-one CPU card that intergrates VGA
display and Disk-On-Chip card. The SBC-356 is a half-sized card
that is based on the 386SX CPU running at 40MHz and supports
up to 32 MB of Fast Page DRAM. The card has an on-board
Watch-Dog timer, a Buzzer, and battery-backed Real Time Clock.
It comes with AMI BIOS which is mapped to the upper 64K of
memory.
The SBC-356 provides a floppy disk controller, an IDE disk
controller, four high speed serial prots (RS-232/422/485) and
one Multi-mode parallel port (ECC/EPP/ECP). The SBC-356 is
also equipped with VGA controller. It uses C&T F65545 ISA-bus
VGA controller which provides a flat panel I/F (interface) to
support panel displays.
For applications that require Solid State Disk (SSD) memory, the
SBC-356 is equipped with one 32-pin DIP IC socket which can
accommodate DiskOnChip Solid State Disk memory. The SBC-
356 supports from 2MB up to 24MB of SSD memory.

Chapter 1 General Information 3
Specifications
· CPU: 386SX 40 MHz
· Bus interface: ISA (PC/AT) bus
· Data Bus: 16 bit
· Chipset: ALI M6117B (Embedded CPU-386SX)
· RAM memory: Fast Page DRAM 512KB to 16 MB with access
time 70 ns or faster. Uses two 72 pin SIMM sockets
· Dsiplay controller: C&T F65545 ISA-bus VGA controller
· Video memory: two 256k*16 DRAM (1MB) and one 256K*16
DRAM(512KB) used for improving performance with color DSTN
panels
· IDE HDD interface: One primary IDE hard disk drive interface
supports up to two IDE HDDs
· Floppy disk drive interface: One floppy disk drive interface
supports up to two floppy disk drives, 5.25"(360KB and 1.2MB) and /
or 3.5" (720KB, 1.44 and 2.88MB)
· Parallel port: One Multi-mode Parallel port(ECC/EPP/ECP
models)
· Serial port: Four high speed serial ports. Three RS-232 and one
RS-232/RS-422/RS-485
· Real time clock: Dallas DS12B887
· Watchdog timer: Jumper configured time interval: 1, 2, 10, 20, 110,
120 seconds
· PC/104 connector: 104 pins for 16-bit bus. Supports PC/104
modules such as Flash/RAM/ROM disk modules and/or PCMCIA
modules
· Solid State Disk (SSD) interface: One 32-pin DIP socket supports
M-system Disk-On-Chip 2000 series, memory capacity from 1MB to
24MB.
· DMA channels: 7

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· Interrupt channels: 15
· Keyboard interface: Yes
· PS/2 mouse support: Yes
· Voltage requirements: +5V, +12V and -12V
· Operating temperature: +0°C to 60°C
· Storage temperature: -25°C to +85°C
· Operating humidity range: 0 to 90% non-condensing
· Storage humidity range: 0 to 90% non-condensing
· Weight (without memory): 260g
· Dimensions: 19.0(L)*12.5(W)*2.5(H)cm