Lippert PC/104-Plus User manual

Cool RoadRunner II
“All-in-one” PC/104-Plus CPU board
Technical Manual
TME-104P-CRR2-R1V16.doc
Version 1.16 / April 04
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1FUNCTIONAL SPECIFICATION..................................................................................5
1.1 The “Cool RoadRunner II” at a glance .................................................................................................... 5
1.2 Functional block diagram......................................................................................................................... 7
1.3 Processor................................................................................................................................................... 8
1.4 I/O Companion........................................................................................................................................... 8
1.5 Integrated Chipset features...................................................................................................................... 9
1.6 On Board Power Supply ........................................................................................................................... 9
1.7 PC/104-Plus bus interface ...................................................................................................................... 10
1.8 PC/104 bus interface ............................................................................................................................... 11
1.9 Super I/O................................................................................................................................................... 11
1.10 PC-AT keyboard interface..................................................................................................................... 12
1.11 Speaker................................................................................................................................................... 12
1.12 Reset-In Signal....................................................................................................................................... 12
1.13 Floppy disk interface............................................................................................................................. 13
1.14 Serial port COM1 and COM2................................................................................................................. 13
1.15 Parallel Port LPT1.................................................................................................................................. 13
1.16 PS/2 mouse interface ............................................................................................................................ 14
1.17 Audio interface....................................................................................................................................... 14
1.18 IrDA interface......................................................................................................................................... 15
1.19 USB ports............................................................................................................................................... 15
1.20 EIDE port ................................................................................................................................................ 16
1.21 Compact flash connector ..................................................................................................................... 16
1.22 CRT / LCD Graphic-Controller.............................................................................................................. 16
1.23 Video Input Port..................................................................................................................................... 19
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1.24 TV-OUT ................................................................................................................................................... 19
1.25 Ethernet-Controller................................................................................................................................ 20
1.26 Watchdog ............................................................................................................................................... 21
1.26.1 Short-time watchdog timer.................................................................................................................... 21
1.26.2 Long-time watchdog timer.................................................................................................................... 21
2HARDWARE INSTALLATION...................................................................................24
2.1 Adapter cable set..................................................................................................................................... 24
2.2 BIOS.......................................................................................................................................................... 24
2.3 Software installation ............................................................................................................................... 25
3CONNECTORS..........................................................................................................26
3.1 Power connector pin definition.............................................................................................................. 26
3.2 COM1 port connector pin definition...................................................................................................... 26
3.3 COM2 port connector pin definition...................................................................................................... 26
3.4 LPT1 port connector pin definition........................................................................................................ 26
3.5 Keyboard connector pin definition........................................................................................................ 27
3.6 VGA connector pin definition................................................................................................................. 27
3.7 10/100BaseT connector pin definition................................................................................................... 28
3.8 PS/2 Mouse / USB / IrDA / Audio connector pin definition.................................................................. 28
3.9 EIDE connector pin definition................................................................................................................ 28
3.10 Floppy connector pin definition........................................................................................................... 29
3.11 TV-OUT connector pin definition......................................................................................................... 29
3.12 Flat Panel connector pin definition...................................................................................................... 30
3.13 PC/104-Plus bus pin definition............................................................................................................. 31
3.14 PC/104 bus pin definition...................................................................................................................... 32
3.15 Video Input Port..................................................................................................................................... 33
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4MOTHERBOARD SOFTWARE SPECIFICATIONS...................................................34
4.1 System address map............................................................................................................................... 34
4.2 Interrupts and DMA channels................................................................................................................. 36
5TECHNICAL CHARACTERISTICS............................................................................37
5.1 Electrical specifications.......................................................................................................................... 37
5.2 Environment specifications.................................................................................................................... 37
5.3 Mechanical specification ........................................................................................................................ 38
6OPTIONS ...................................................................................................................41
7HISTORY....................................................................................................................42
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1 Functional specification
The “Cool RoadRunner II” is an “All-in-one” CPU board with on-board 10/100 BaseT
Ethernet interface and graphic acceleration. The CPU is an x86-compatible 64-bit micro-
processor with sixth generation features and is available with speeds up to 300 MHz. The
graphic interface supports all kinds of LCD and TFT Flat Panels and complies with the or-
dinary SVGA standard. It includes 2 Mbytes graphic memory and has a maximum resolu-
tion of 1280 x 1024, 16.7 million colors. An Audio interface with two lines in and out each
and a microphone line is supported. Memory is expandable up to 512 Mbytes with 3.3V
SDRAM SODIMMs (144p.). The board conforms to the official PC/104Plus Specification.
1.1 The “Cool RoadRunner II” at a glance
CPU:
 National Geode™ MMX™ with I/O Companion CX5530™
Cache Memory:
 16 KB unified L1 Write-Back Cache
 No L2 cache subsystem can be installed
Main Memory:
 Supports a 64-bit memory bank using single- or double-sided 144-pin SO
DIMM modules up to 512MB SDRAM
Extension slots:
 1x 32-bit PC/104Plus slot
 1x 16-bit PC/104 slot
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Interfaces:
Minimal model:
 Power supply
 PS/2 Keyboard
 one parallel port
 two serial ports
 PS/2 Mouse
 two USB ports
 IrDA
 Floppy
 EIDE
 SVGA monitor
 Flat Panel
 Compact Flash socket
 PC/104 Bus
 PC/104+ Bus
Options:
 Ethernet: 10/100 BaseT Intel 82559 Ethernet controller
 Sound: AC97 Sound Codec National LM4548, Line-In (left/right),
Line-Out (left/right), Microphone-In
 TV-OUT: S-Video and BAS signal
Other models are possible on high volumes.
Dimensions:
 95.9mm x 115.6mm (including I/O extension)
Mounting:
 4 mounting holes
Note:It is strongly recommend using plastic spacers instead of
metal spacers to mount the board. With metal spacers
there is a possible danger to create a short circuit with
the components located around the mounting holes.
This can damage the board!
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1.2 Functional block diagram
National
GEODE
CX5530
I/O
Companion
Ethernet
controller Graphic controller
BIOS Super I/O
Audio
Watchdog
SODIMM SDRAM
RTC
ISA bus
PCI bus
EIDE
Ultra DMA/33
COM 1 COM 2LPT 1
KB
SVGA
10/100BaseT Flat Panel
Floppy
2xUSB / Audio / Mouse / IrDA
PC/104
bus extension
PC/104Plus
bus extension
Compact
Flash socket
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1.3 Processor
The National Geode™ MMX™ is an advanced 64-bit x86 compatible processor offering
high performance, fully accelerated 2D graphics, a 64-bit synchronous DRAM controller
and a PCI bus controller, all on a single chip. Plus it supports the MMX™ instruction set
extension for the acceleration of multimedia applications. The processor is a split rail de-
sign with 3.3V I/O and 1,6 to 2.6V Core voltage and is offered in speeds up to 300 MHz.
The core has integer and floating point execution units that are based on sixth-generation
technology. The integer core contains a single, six-stage execution pipeline and offers ad-
vanced features such as operand forwarding, branch target buffers, and extensive write
buffering. A 16Kbyte write-back L1 cache is accessed in a unique fashion that eliminates
pipeline stalls to fetch operands that hit in the cache.
A separate on-chip video buffer enables >30FPS MPEG1 video playback together with the
CX5530™ I/O Companion chip. A tightly coupled synchronous DRAM memory controller
supports graphics and system memory accesses. This tightly coupled memory subsystem
eliminates the need for an external L2 cache. Software handler routines for Xpress-
GRAPHICS™ and XpressAUDIO™ are included in the BIOS and provide compatible VGA
and 16-bit industry standard audio emulation.
1.4 I/O Companion
The Cx5530™ I/O Companion is a PCI-to-ISA bridge (South Bridge), ACPI-compatible
chipset that provides AT/ISA functionality. The device also contains state-of-the-art power
management enabling notebook designs as well as “Deep Green” implementations. Hard-
ware support for the Cyrix Virtual System Architecture™ (VSA™) is provided, thus ena-
bling Microsoft®PC97 and PC98-compatible audio. The integrated bus master EIDE con-
troller supports two ATA-compatible devices. A two-port Universal Serial Bus (USB) pro-
vides high speed, Plug & Play expansion for a variety of new consumer peripheral devices
such as digital cameras.
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1.5 Integrated Chipset features
- x86 compatibility and support of MMX™ instruction set extension
- fully 2D graphic acceleration
- synchronous memory interface
- PCI bus controller (PCI 2.1 compatible)
- ISA interface
- Ultra DMA/33 (ATA-4) support
- EIDE interface
- Two-port USB interface
- AT compatibility
- SMM power management
- full VGA and VESA video
- 16-bit stereo sound
- MPEG2 assist
- AC97 Version 2.0 compatible
1.6 On Board Power Supply
The on board power supply generates all necessary voltages from the single supply volt-
age of 5 volts. The generated voltage of 3.3 Volts, which is available on the connectors
„PC/104+“ and „Flat Panel“, must not be used to supply external electronic devices with
high power consumption like other PC/104 boards or displays.
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1.7 PC/104-Plus bus interface
The PC/104-Plus bus is a modification of the standard PCI PC bus. It incorporates all of
the PC/104 features, with the added advantage of the high speed PCI bus.
The main features are:
- PC/104 Plus Bus slot fully compatible with PCI version 2.1 specifications.
- Integrated PCI arbitration interface (32 bit wide, 3.3V).
- Translation of PCI cycles to ISA bus.
- Translation of ISA master initiated cycle to PCI.
- Support for burst read/write from PCI master.
- 33 MHz PCI clock.
The "Cool RoadRunner II" supports only signal levels at 3.3 Volt. Adapter boards on the
PC/104-Plus bus must tolerate this voltage. Signal levels of 5 Volt are not allowed.
Note: The internal DC/DC converter does not supply the 3.3 Volt
pins on the PC/104-Plus bus.
Because of the complete functionality in on board, there are some restrictions for exten-
sion boards on the PC/104 Plus bus:
SLOT0: no restrictions are known for this slot.
SLOT1: only extensions boards that will not use the busmaster function can operate
on this slot number. If an extension board with busmaster function is used on
this slot number the system might hang during boot-time. This restriction is
only valid if the board is shipped with the onboard Ethernet controller (stan-
dard configuration).
SLOT2: no restrictions are known for this slot.
SLOT3: this slot is used by the onboard VGA controller and cannot be used for ex-
tension boards. This restriction is only valid if the board is shipped with the
onboard VGA controller (standard configuration).
Note: The "Cool RoadRunner II" supports only one busmaster
extension board. This can be used only in SLOT0 or
SLOT2.
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