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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1.8 PC/104 bus interface
The PC/104 bus is a modification of the industry standard (ISA) PC bus specified in IEEE
P996. The PC/104 bus has different mechanics than P966 to allow the stacking of mod-
ules. The main features are:
- Supports programmable extra wait state for ISA cycles.
- Supports I/O recovery time for back-to-back I/O cycles.
The specification for the PC/104 bus and the PC/104-Plus bus are available from the
PC/104 Consortium (http://www.PC104.org).
1.9 Super I/O
The onboard Super I/O (SMSC FDC37B72x) provides:
- PC-AT keyboard interface on IDC10 connector
- floppy disk interface on FFC connector
- COM1 and COM2 on IDC10 connectors
- LPT1 on IDC26 connector
- PS/2 mouse interface on IDC16 connector
- IrDA interface on IDC16 connector
- General purpose pins are used for the watchdog functions
To use the watchdog function of the Super I/O it is necessary to program the registers.
This can be done through the two I/O addresses 370h and 371h. At the I/O address 370h
the index-register is located, at the I/O address 371h the data-register. To change the reg-
isters or to read them the Super I/O controller has to be in configuration mode. Therefore
the data byte 55h has to be written to the I/O address 370h. After configuration the con-
figuration mode can be left by writing AAh to the I/O address 370h. Reading from or writing
to a register works as follows:
OUT (0x370, 0x55)
OUT (0x370, register-index)
OUT (0x371, register-data), or IN (0x371, register-data)
OUT (0x370, 0xAA)
On request there are DOS programs SMCW.EXE (to write) and SMCR.EXE (to read)
available that work that way (hex-letters ‘ a ’ to ‘ f ’ have to be entered as small letters)
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To change a register enter:
SMCW <register-index (in hex)> <register-data (in hex)>
Example: SMC e2 0a
To read a register enter:
SMCR <register-index (in hex)>
Example: SMCR e2
Output: INDEX e2 VALUE a
The Super I/O controller is divided in functional groups. Before the value of a register of a
functional group can be changed, this group has to be selected. This happens by writing
the number of the corresponding functional group in the index-register 07. For example the
registers for the General Purpose Pins of the controller have 8 as number of functional
group. To select this group the following should be entered:
Example: SMCW 07 08
1.10 PC-AT keyboard interface
The keyboard interface is located on the IDC10 Header “KEYBOARD”. An adapter cable is
available to use a standard PC-AT keyboard with this connector.
1.11 Speaker
The speaker signal is located on the IDC10 Header “KEYBOARD”. A standard PC
Speaker can be connected between the signal SPEAKER and VCC.
1.12 Reset-In Signal
The RESET-IN signal is located on the IDC10 Header “KEYBOARD”. To reset the board
the signal RESET-IN must be connected to GND.
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1.13 Floppy disk interface
The floppy interface connector is built for slimline floppy disk drives. For connection of a
conventional floppy disk drive an optional adapter connector is available.
1.14 Serial port COM1 and COM2
The serial ports are located on two IDC headers “COM1” and “COM2”. Adapter cables with
standard DB9 male connectors are available.
The serial ports are programmable in BIOS setup by pressing DEL at boot time. When en-
tering Integrated Peripherals and then choosing Onboard Serial Port 1 or Onboard Se-
rial Port 2, configuration of the serial ports is accessible.
The following settings are possible for COM1:
- Auto
- 3F8 / IRQ4 (base address / interrupt channel)
- 3F8 / IRQ3 (base address / interrupt channel)
- 3E8 / IRQ4 (base address / interrupt channel)
- 2E8 / IRQ3 (base address / interrupt channel)
The following settings are possible for COM2:
- Disabled
- Auto
- 3F8 / IRQ4 (base address / interrupt channel)
- 2F8 / IRQ3 (base address / interrupt channel)
- 3E8 / IRQ4 (base address / interrupt channel)
- 2E8 / IRQ3 (base address / interrupt channel)
1.15 Parallel Port LPT1
The parallel port is located on an IDC26 header. An adapter cable with a standard DB25
female connector is available.
The parallel port is programmable in BIOS setup by pressing DEL at boot time. Entering
Integrated Peripherals and then choosing Onboard Parallel Port, configuration of LPT1
is accessible.
Configuring LPT1, the following settings are possible:
- Disabled
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- 3BC/IRQ7 (base address / interrupt channel)
- 378/IRQ7 (base address / interrupt channel)
- 278/IRQ5 (base address / interrupt channel)
While not disabled, Parallel Port Mode can be selected by choosing:
- Normal
- SPP
- EPP 1.7+SPP
- EPP 1.9+SPP
- ECP
- ECP+EPP 1.7
- ECP+EPP 1.9
If Parallel Port Mode is switched to ECP or ECP+EPP 1.x, ECP Mode Use DMA is ac-
cessible. DMA channel 1 or 3 can be selected.
1.16 PS/2 mouse interface
The PS/2 mouse signals MCLK and MDAT are located on the IDC16 header “AUDIO”. The
PS/2 mouse function is programmable in BIOS setup by pressing DEL at boot time. Enter-
ing BIOS features Setup and then choosing PS/2 mouse function control PS/2 mouse
function can be disabled or enabled.
1.17 Audio interface
The audio signals are located on the IDC16 header “AUDIO”. The signals are LINE-IN
(left/right), LINE-OUT (left right) and MICROPHONE-IN of the optional available Audio Co-
dec. The audio function is programmable in BIOS setup by pressing DEL at boot time.
Entering Integrated peripherals and then choosing Build in CPU Audio the audio func-
tion can be disabled or enabled. If enabled the following settings can be made:
Audio I/O Base Address: 220H, 240H, 260H or 280H
MPU-401 I/O Base Address: Disabled, 300H or 330H
Audio IRQ Select: IRQ5, IRQ7, IRQ10 or Disabled
Audio Low DMA Select: DMA0, DMA1, DMA3 or Disabled
Audio High DMA Select: DMA5, DMA6, DMA7 or Disabled
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The Audio port is Soundblaster16 compatible under MS-DOS. For Windows95/98 a driver
package is available. Also an adapter cable with standard audio connectors is available.
1.18 IrDA interface
The IrDA interface signals IRRX and IRTX are located on the IDC16 header “AUDIO”. The
IrDA interface is available as serial port 2 by selecting it in the BIOS setup. The normal
serial port2 can be not used at the same time. Entering Integrated Peripherals and then
choosing Auto or one of the available base addresses in the menu point Serial Port 2, the
menu point UART2 Mode will appear. There are three different possibilities to choose.
- Standard
- IrDA 1.0
- ASK-IR
Choosing IrDA 1.0 or ASK-IR, two menu points are accessible. With Duplex Select you
can choose between half duplex and full duplex communication. With TxD, RxD it is pos-
sible to select independently whether the functions data transmission (Hi, Lo), data recep-
tion (Lo, Hi), data transmission and reception (Hi, Hi) or no data communication (Lo, Lo)
are enabled.
To use the IrDA interface an external transmitter must be connected to the IrDA signals.
1.19 USB ports
Two USB ports are located on the IDC16 header “AUDIO”. When using USB it has to be
enabled in the BIOS.
Entering Chipset Features Setup and then choosing USB Controller: Enabled.
It is possible to use an USB keyboard under DOS without special driver software. There-
fore USB legacy support has to be enabled in the BIOS. (Note: not all keyboard manufac-
turers are supported)
Entering Chipset Features Setup and then choosing USB Controller: Enabled and also
USB Legacy Support: Enabled.
An adapter cable with two standard USB connectors is available.
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1.20 EIDE port
An EIDE (Extended Intelligent Drive Electronics) port is provided by the chipset to connect
intelligent drives that integrate the controller (hard disk, CD-ROM etc.). This port supports
LBA (Logic Block Addressing) that allows the use of hard disks larger than 512 Mbytes. To
enhance the performance, this port supports DMA F type of transfer. The EIDE port is lo-
cated on a standard 44-pin header (2mm) for 2,5” hard disks and the compact flash con-
nector. An adapter cable is available to connect standard EIDE devices with a 40 pin IDC
header.
1.21 Compact flash connector
On the bottom side of the board a compact flash connector is located that allows the use
of compact flash cards instead of a mechanical hard disk. This socket is also connected to
the primary EIDE port of the chipset. Care must be taken when using a compact flash card
and another EIDE device (hard disk, CDROM) on the EIDE port at the same time. The
compact flash card is always the master device; the device on the EIDE port must be set
up as slave. Compact flash cards are available as solid-state disks from 4 to 300 Mbytes
and also as IBM MicroDrive up to 1 GByte.
1.22 CRT / LCD Graphic-Controller
The graphic-controller CT69000 from Chips&Technologies combines state-of-the-art flat
panel controller capabilities with low power, high performance integrated memory. It incor-
porates 2Mbytes of proprietary integrated SDRAM for the graphics/video frame buffer. The
integrated SDRAM memory supports up to 83MHz operation, thus increasing the available
memory bandwidth for the graphics subsystem. The result is support for additional high-
color / high-resolution graphics modes combined with real-time video acceleration. This
additional bandwidth also allows more flexibility in graphics functions intensely used in
Graphical User Interfaces (GUIs) such as Microsoft™ Windows™.
The CT69000 supports a wide variety of monochrome and color Single-Panel, Single-
Drive (SS) and Dual-Panel, Dual-Drive (DD), standard and high resolution, passive STN
and active matrix TFT/MIM LCD and EL panels. Up to 256 gray scales are supported on
passive STN LCD’s. Up to 16.7M different colors can be displayed on passive STN LCDs
and up to 16.7M colors on 24-bit active matrix LCDs.
Vertical centering and stretching are provided for handling modes with less than 480 lines
on 480-line panels. Horizontal and vertical stretching capabilities are also available for
both text and graphics modes for optimal display of VGA text and graphics modes on
800x600, 1024x768 and 1280x1024 panels.
The CT69000 uses independent multimedia capture and display systems on-chip. The
capture system places data in display memory and the display system places the data in a
window on the screen.
The capture system can receive data from the system bus (PCI) in either RGB or YUV
format. The input data can also be scaled down before storage in display memory. Cap-
ture of input data may also be double buffered for smoothing and to prevent image tearing.
To better support MPEG2 (DVD) video decompression, the CT69000 includes a line buffer
to directly support the native format of MPEG2 data of 720 pixels wide.
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The capture engine also supports image mirroring and rotation for camera support. This
feature is important for applications such as video teleconferencing because it allows the
image movements to appear on the display as it actually occurs. The image and move-
ment is not a mirror image of what is actually taking place. The display system can inde-
pendently place either RGB or YUV data from anywhere in display memory into an on-
screen window which can be any size and located at any pixel boundary (YUV is con-
verted to RGB “on-the-fly” on output).
Non-rectangular windows are supported via color keying. The data can be fractionally
zoomed on output up to 8x to fit the on-screen window and can be horizontally and verti-
cally interpolated. Interlaced and non-interlaced data are both supported in the capture
and display systems.
The internal logic of the CT69000 is optimized for 3.3V operation, bus and panel interfaces
at 3.3V but can tolerate 5V operation.
The CT69000 graphics engine is designed to support high performance graphics and
video acceleration for all supported display resolutions, display types and color modes.
There is no compromise in performance operating in 8, 16 or 24 bpp color modes allowing
true acceleration while displaying up to 16.7M colors.
Supported Display Modes
The following display modes are supported:
Resolution Color (bpp) Refresh Rates (Hz)
640x480 8 60, 75, 85
640x480 16 60, 75, 85
640x480 24 60, 75, 85
800x600 8 60, 75, 85
800x600 16 60, 75, 85
800x600 24 60, 75, 85
1024x768 8 60, 75, 85
1024x768 16 60, 75, 85
1280x1024 8 60
The CT69000 supports CRT and most kind of Displays like, STN DSTN, EL and TFT. The
CT69000 can boot on CRT, LCD or simultaneous. Up to 16 different displays are sup-
ported in the VGA BIOS. This functions can be programmed in BIOS setup by pressing
DEL at boot time. Entering Special Features Setup and then choosing:
CT69000 Display Device: CRT, LCD or simultaneous
The display can be selected through the following options, if CT69000 Display device is
LCD or simultaneous:
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LCD Panel Select: read pins PS0-PS3 on panel connector
With this setup option the display type is selected by connecting the panel select signals
PS0 – PS3 on the LCD connector to GND. The other possibility is to select the display di-
rectly in the BIOS, e.g.
LCD Panel Select: #01:1024x768 DSTN Col
The following panels are supported in the standard BIOS:
Alternatively connect
LCD
Panel Resolution Type Manufacturer Part no. PS0 PS1 PS2 PS3
#01 320 x 240 STNMonochrom Hitachi LMG 7520 GND GND GND GND
#02 1280 x 1024 TFT Color n.c. GND GND GND
#03 640 x 480 EL Monochrome Planar EL640.480-AG1 GND n.c. GND GND
#04 800 x 600 DSTN Color n.c. n.c. GND GND
#05 640 x 480 TFT Color Sharp LQ084V1DG21 GND GND n.c. GND
#06 640 x 480 TFT Color NEC NL6448AC33-24 n.c. GND n.c. GND
#07 1024 x 768 TFT Color Sharp LQ12X12 GND n.c. n.c. GND
#08 800 x 600 TFT Color Hosiden HLD1210-010000 n.c. n.c. n.c. GND
#09 800 x 600 TFT Color GND GND GND n.c.
#10 800 x 600 TFT Color n.c. GND GND n.c.
#11 800 x 600 DSTN Color GND n.c. GND n.c.
#12 800 x 600 DSTN Color n.c. n.c. GND n.c.
#13 1024 x 768 TFT Color GND GND n.c. n.c.
#14 1280 x 1024 DSTN Color n.c. GND n.c. n.c.
#15 1024 x 600 DSTN Color GND n.c. n.c. n.c.
#16 1024 x 600 TFT Color n.c. n.c. n.c. n.c.
Note: n.c. = leave this pin open. The above table is depending on the used VGA BIOS and may be changed for product improvement.
The actual supported displays can be seen in the BIOS menu.
Remember it is only necessary to connect PS0 – PS3 on the panel connector if the option
LCD Panel Select is set to read pins PS0-PS3 on panel connector.
This option is useful if you want to automatically select the proper display type through the
display cable.
The supply voltages of the backlight converter (normally 12V or 5V) and the supply voltage
oft the display (normally 5V or 3,3V) can be switched over the board. This is necessary for
the correct power sequence of the display. On the panel connector the used signals are:
Signal Name Pin Description Maximum ratings
VDD-SRC 37 Display Power Supply Source + 5V / 1 A
SW-VDD 36 Switched Power Supply + 5V / 1 A
VBKL-SRC 39 Display Backlight Supply Source + 12V / 1A
SW-VBKL 38 Switched Backlight Supply + 12V / 1A
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Note: On the panel connector are also the 3,3 Volt, generated by
the on board power supply. This 3,3 Volt must be not used
to supply connected displays with high power consump-
tion.
An adapter cable IDC10 to Sub-D HD15 female for CRT Monitors and several cable
adapters for a direct connection of the display are available.
1.23 Video Input Port
The CT69000 has a digital video input port that may be used for overlaying a picture on
the screen. The data of the video input port is directly transferred to the video output and is
therefore not accessible by other application programs. The video input port cannot be
used as a frame grabber device. The signals of the video input port are located on the
video input port connector. Because the signals on this connector are routed directly to the
pins of the CT69000 the user may have to build his own hardware around to connect a
video device like a camera.
The video input port is located on the bottom side marked as VIDEO CON in the drawing.
The video input port is not available on all board models, but only on the model that in-
cludes all peripheral functions (TV-OUT, Sound, Ethernet, Graphics Controller).
1.24 TV-OUT
The TV-OUT option offers the possibility to connect directly a TV. The VGA-Signals (RGB)
is converted on board to a BAS signal (COMP) and a S-VHS signal (LUMA and CRMA).
The signals are located on a 12-pin IDC header (1,27 mm).
TV-OUT can be used together with a CRT Monitor or stand-alone. For proper timing of the
TV signals the currently used VGA mode must be changed to PAL or NTSC timing by a
VGA BIOS call via software interrupt 10h, function 5F19h (examples in assembler):
For PAL timing: mov ax,5F19 For NTSC timing: mov ax,5F19
mov bl,01 mov bl,01
mov bh,02 mov bh,01
int10 int10
Because the setting will be lost if the VGA mode changes, this must be executed when-
ever the VGA mode changes. To come back to normal VGA timing the software interrupt
looks like this:
mov ax,5F19
mov bl,01
mov bh,00
int 10
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In addition the right frequency generator for PAL or NTSC timing must be selected over
the general-purpose pin GP16 of the Super I/O.
For PAL timing this general-purpose pin must be held high. This can be done with the
DOS program SMCW.EXE:
SMCW 07, 08
SMCW E6, 02
For NTSC timing this general-purpose pin must be held low. This can be done with the
DOS program SMCW.EXE:
SMCW 07, 08
SMCW E6, 00
If a CRT-Monitor is used at the same time it must tolerate this timing. Because of the load
on the VGA signals by the CRT monitor the display on the TV becomes a little darker,
when connecting a CRT monitor at the same time.
When using Windows95, 98 or NT as operating system, the switch to TV PAL mode can
be done in the VGA driver. Because this will not affect the state of the GP16 pin of the Su-
per I/O, this will only result in TV PAL mode (the default setting after power-up of GP16 is
high).
1.25 Ethernet-Controller
The controller-controller 82559ER from Intel is a fully integrated 10/100 Base-TX LAN so-
lution and consists of both the Media Access Controller (MAC) and the physical layer
(PHY) interface combined into a single component solution.
The 32-bit PCI controller provides enhanced scatter-gather bus mastering capabilities and
enables the 82559ER to perform high-speed data transfers over the PCI bus. Its bus mas-
ter capabilities enable the component to process high level commands and perform multi-
ple operations, which lowers CPU utilization by off-loading communication tasks from the
CPU: Two large transmit and receive FIFOs of 3 Kbytes each help prevent data underruns
and overruns while waiting for bus accesses. This enables the 82559ER to transmit data
with minimum interframe spacing (IFS).
The 82559ER can operate in either full duplex or half duplex mode. In full duplex mode the
82559 adheres to the IEEE 802.3x Flow Control specification. Half duplex performance is
enhanced by a proprietary collision reduction mechanism.
The CSMA/CD unit of the 82559ER allows it to be connected to either a 10 or 100 Mbps
Ethernet network. The CSMA/CD unit performs all of the functions of the 802.3 protocol
such as frame formatting, frame stripping, collision handling, deferral to link traffic, etc. The
CSMA/CD unit can also be placed in a full duplex mode, which allows simultaneous
transmission and reception of frames.
The PHY unit of the 82559ER supports Auto-Negotiation for 10BaseT-/100BaseTX Half
Duplex and 10BaseT-/100BaseTX Full Duplex.
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