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Nagasaki PC104-688VL User Manual

Manual is about: VIA Eden PC/104 CPU Board

Summary of PC104-688VL

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    Nagasaki ipc ipc solution website: http:// www.Nagasaki.Com .Tw email: sales@nagasaki.Com.Tw pc104-688vl via eden pc/ 104 cpu board user’s manual feb 2004 version: 1.0 part number: pc104- 688vl.

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    Ii copyright ©copyright 2002 nagasaki ipc. The content of this publication may not be reproduced in any part or as a whole, transcribed, stored in a retrieval system, translated into any language, or transcribed in any form or by any means, electronic, mechanical, magnetic etc. Or otherwise without ...

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    Iii table of content pc104-688vl via eden pc/104 cpu board user’s manual..................................................................... I table of content .........................................................................................................................................Ii...

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    Iv chapter 3 installing crt........................................................................................................................... 19 crt display (cn5) ...................................................................................................................................

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    V appendix................................................................................................................................................... 65 dimension ....................................................................................................................................

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    1 chapter 1 introducing the pc104-688vl system board overview the pc104-688vl is a via eden low power processor, all in one, pc/104 cpu board. This user’s manual provides information on the physical features, installation, and bios setup of the pc104-688vl. Built to unleash the total potential of th...

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    Nagasaki ipc 2 layout.

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    Nagasaki ipc 3 specifications supports 300 ~ 733 mhz low power cpu. (400mhz for standard) via vt8601t+vt82c696b chipset and 64kb or above l2 cache inside the cpus. One sodimm socket for up to 512mb pc-133 sdram. One 100m/10m ethernet port. Onboard vga port (vt8601t embedded) supports crt up to 8mb s...

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    Nagasaki ipc 4 packing list upon receiving the package, verify the following things. Should any of the mentioned happens, contact us for immediate service. • unpack and inspect the pc104-688vl package for possible damage that may occur during the delivery process. • verify the accessories in the pac...

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    Nagasaki ipc 5 chapter 2 hardware installation to set up a pc104-688vl system board, complete the description chapter 2 and chapter 3. This chapter introduces the system board connectors, jumper settings and then guides you to apply them for field application. Before installation before you install ...

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    Nagasaki ipc 6 hardware features the following lists the connectors and jumpers to install the pc104-688vl. Item description cn1 lcd connector with 24 bit ttl signals (reserved for via8606) cn2, cn3 10-pin rs-232 port connector cn4, cn8 connector to daughter board fb4641, provides ac97 signals for a...

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    Nagasaki ipc 7 j8: power connector (4-pin 2.5mm jst) j4: reset header j4 is a 2-pin header for connecting to system reset bottom. Short-circuit these 2 pins to hardware reset pc104-688vl as well as restart system. It is similar to power off the system and then power it on again. Pin 1: vcc (+5v) pin...

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    Nagasaki ipc 8 j3: rj45 lan /adapter connector with led indicators fb4605a is a rj45 connector with 2 leds for lan. The left side led (orange) indicates data is being accessed and the right side led (green) indicates on-line status. (on indicates on-line and off indicates off-line) j3 provide twist-...

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    Nagasaki ipc 9 j2: keyboard/mouse connector j2 is a 6-pin 2.0mm jst connector, use the included adapter cable you can attach standard ps/2 type keyboard and mouse. J5: external speaker header pin signal 1 speaker+ 2 speaker- j2 6 1 pin 1: mouse data pin 2: keyboard data pin 3: ground pin 4: vcc pin ...

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    Nagasaki ipc 10 cn4: audio connector cn4 is a 12-pin 2.0mm idc connector with ac97 signals for audio i/o. Use the included audio cable and fb4641 adapter board for your audio applications. Cn8: usb connector use the usb adapter cable and fb4641 board, you can attach up to 2 usb devices. Cn4 descript...

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    Nagasaki ipc 11 fb4641: provides audio and usb board the j3, j4, and j5 connectors on fb4641 are 2-way line-in, mono microphone input, and 2-way lineout respectively. You can connectors j1, cn2 cable from pc104-688vl cn4 and cn8. The following figure shows these audio connectors on fb4641 board: j5 ...

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    Nagasaki ipc 12 cn7: ide hard disk connectors cn7 is 44-pin 2.0mm idc connectors. Use the included hard disk cables to attach up to two 2.5” hard disk drives. The following table lists the pin description of cn7. Pin description pin description 1 -reset 2 ground 3 data 7 4 data 8 5 data 6 6 data 9 7...

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    Nagasaki ipc 13 cn6: 26-pin parallel port connector (26-pin 2.0mm idc) the included printer interface cable is used to transfer 26-pin connector into standard db25 connector. Cn6 db-25 description cn6 db-25 description 1 1 -strobe 2 14 -auto form feed 3 2 data 0 4 15 -error 5 3 data 1 6 16 -initiali...

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    Nagasaki ipc 14 cn2 & cn3: serial port connectors rs-232c pin definitions cn2 (com1) & cn3 (com2) are 10-pin 2.0mm idc connectors. The included serial port adapter cables are used to transfer 10-pin 2.0mm idc into standard db-9 connector. The following tables show the signal connections of these con...

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    Nagasaki ipc 15 j7 & jp1: external battery header and battery select jumper j7 is used to connect an external battery pack if on-board lithium battery is empty or not and please setting jp1 properly of on-board battery or external battery. Jp1: clear cmos data you can use jp1to clear cmos data. The ...

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    Nagasaki ipc 16 bus1: pc/104 bus connectors pc/104 a&b pin pin signal pin signal pin signal pin signal a1 -iochk a17 sa14 b1 ground b17 -dack1 a2 sd7 a18 sa13 b2 rstdrv b18 drq1 a3 sd6 a19 sa12 b3 +5v b19 -refresh a4 sd5 a20 sa11 b4 irq9 b20 busclk a5 sd4 a21 sa10 b5 -- b21 irq7 a6 sd3 a22 sa9 b6 dr...

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    Nagasaki ipc 17 dimm1: so-dimm socket the dimm1 socket on the solder side accepts 32mb to 512mb pc-100 sdram modules. Dimm1.

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    Nagasaki ipc 18.

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    Nagasaki ipc 19 chapter 3 installing crt this chapter describes the configuration and installation procedure crt display. Crt display (cn5) the pc104-688vl supports a crt colored monitor. It can be connected to create a compact video solution for the industrial environment. 8mb simulated vram allows...

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    Nagasaki ipc 20

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    Nagasaki ipc 21 chapter 4 bios setup this chapter describes the bios setup. Overview bios are a program located on a flash memory chip on a circuit board. It is used to initialize and set up the i/o peripherals and interface cards of the system, which includes time, date, hard disk drive, the pci bu...

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    Nagasaki ipc 22 bios functions on the menu, you can perform the following functions 1. Standard cmos setup 2. Advanced cmos setup 3. Advanced chipset setup 4. Power management setup 5. Pci/ plug and play setup 6. Peripheral setup 7. Hardware monitor setup 8. Auto-detect hard disks 9. Change user pas...

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    Nagasaki ipc 23 keyboard convention on the bios, the following keys can be used to operate and manage the menu: item function esc to exit the current menu or message page up/page down to select a parameter f1 to display the help menu if you do not know the purpose or function of the item you are goi...

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    Nagasaki ipc 24 standard cmos setup this section describes basic system hardware configuration, system clock setup and error handling. If the cpu board is already installed in a working system, you will not need to select this option anymore. Date & time setup highlight the field and then press the ...

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    Nagasaki ipc 25 boot sector virus protection this option protects the boot sector and partition table of your hard disk against accidental modifications. Any attempt to write to them will cause the system to halt and display a warning message. If this occurs, you can either allow the operation to co...

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    Nagasaki ipc 26 advanced cmos setup this section describes the configuration entries that allow you to improve your system performance, or let you set up some system features according to your preference. Some entries here are required by the cpu board’s design to remain in their default settings. Q...

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    Nagasaki ipc 27 available options: disabled, ide0-1, ide-2, ide-3, floppy, armd-fdd, armd-hdd, cd/dvd, usb-floppy, usb-cdrom, usb-hdd and scsi, network default setting: ide-0 for 1 st boot device; floppy for 2 nd boot device; cdrom for 3 rd boot device try other boot device if all 3 1 st –3 rd boot ...

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    Nagasaki ipc 28 floppy drive swap the field reverses the drive letter assignments of your floppy disk drives in the swap a, b setting, otherwise leave on the default setting of disabled (no swap). This works separately from the bios features floppy disk swap feature. It is functionally the same as p...

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    Nagasaki ipc 29 password check this field enables password checking every time the computer is powered on or every time the bios setup is executed. If always is chosen, a user password prompt appears every time and the bios setup program executes and the computer is turned on. If setup is chosen, th...

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    Nagasaki ipc 30 c000, 32k shadow - e800, 32k shadow these fields control the location of the contents of the 32kb of rom beginning at the specified memory location. If no adapter rom is using the named rom area, this area is made available to the local bus. The settings are: 1. Disabled: the video r...

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    Nagasaki ipc 31 advanced chipset setup this section describes the configuration of the board’s chipset features. Configure sdram timing by spd spd represents serial presence detect. It is an 8-bit, 2048 bits eeprom, built on the sdram for 100 mhz frequencies. If the installed sdram supports spd func...

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    Nagasaki ipc 32 isa bus clock this field sets the polling clock speed of isa bus (pc/104). Available options: pciclk/2, pciclk/3, pciclk/4, pciclk/5 and pciclk/6 default setting: pciclk/4 note: 1. Pciclk means the pci bus inputs clock (33mhz). 2. User is recommended to use setting at the range of 8m...

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    Nagasaki ipc 33 onchip vga frame buffers size this field is share memory architecture (sma) for frame buffer memory. Sma allows system memory to be efficiently share by the host cpu and allocated depending on user preference, application requirements, and total size of system memory. Available optio...

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    Nagasaki ipc 34 power management power management /apm select enabled to activate the chipset power management and apm (advanced power management) features. Available options: disabled, enabled default setting: enabled video power down mode this field specifies the power conserving state that video ...

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    Nagasaki ipc 35 standby time out (minute) this field specifies the length of a period of system inactivity (like hard disk or video) while in full power on state. When this length of time expires, the system enters standby power state. Available options: disabled, 1 minute, 2 minute, 4 minute, and 8...

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    Nagasaki ipc 36 pci/plug and play plug and plug aware o/s set to yes to inform bios that the operating system can handle plug and play (pnp) devices. Available options: yes, no default setting: no pci latency timer this field specifies the latency timings (in pci clock) pci devices installed in the ...

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    Nagasaki ipc 37 pci vga palette snoop when enabled is selected, multiple vga devices operating on different buses can handle data from the cpu on each set of palette registers on every video device. Bit 5 of the command register in the pci device configuration space is the vga palette snoop bit. (0 ...

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    Nagasaki ipc 38 irq 3 –15 when i/o resources are controlled manually, you can assign each system interrupt as one of the following types, based on the type of device using the interrupt: isa/eisa devices comply with the original pc at bus specification, requiring a specific interrupt (such as irq5 f...

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    Nagasaki ipc 39 peripheral setup this section describes the function of peripheral features. Onboard fdc this field enables the floppy drive controller on the pc104-688vl. Available options: disabled, enabled and auto default setting: auto onboard serial port 1 these fields select the i/o port addre...

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    Nagasaki ipc 40 onboard parallel port this field selects the i/o port address for parallel port. Available options: auto, disabled, 378, 278, and 3bch default setting: auto epp version this field specifies the epp version for the parallel port mode specification used in the system and is not configu...

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    Nagasaki ipc 41 ide connection cable this field specifies the select ide use 40-pin or 40pin-80 conductor cable that can be applied when using ultradma/66/100 devices on cn3 ide hard disk connector. Available options: 40-pin, 80-pin default setting: 40-pin onboard ac’97 audio this field specifies th...

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    Nagasaki ipc 42 hardware monitor setup on the hardware monitor setup screen, you can set up or monitor the system temperature, cpu voltage, and via c3 cpu ration and cpu fan speed… system hardware monitor in this field, you can monitor or detect the followings items. These items are view-only and ca...

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    Nagasaki ipc 43 password setup there are two security passwords: supervisor and user. Supervisor is a privileged person that can change the user password from the bios. According to the default setting, both access passwords are not set up and are only valid after you set the password from the bios....

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    Nagasaki ipc 44.

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    Nagasaki ipc 45 chapter 5 driver and utility the enclosed diskette includes pc104-688vl vga driver and lan driver. Vga /audio driver for win98/win95 step 1: to install the vga driver, insert the cd rom into the cd rom device, and enter driver>vga>via8601t>win98_me. Step 2: open the control panel and...

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    Nagasaki ipc 46 bios flash utility in the directory, there is the flash835.Exe file. Step 1: use the amiflash.Com program to update the bios setting. Step 2: and then refer to the chapter “bios setup”, as the steps to modify bios. Step 3: now the cpu board’s bios loaded with is the newest program; u...

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    Nagasaki ipc 47 watchdog timer this section describes how to use the watchdog timer, including disabled, enabled, and trigger functions. The pc104-688vl is equipped with a programmable time-out period watchdog timer. You can use your own program to enable the watchdog timer. Once you have enabled th...

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    Nagasaki ipc 48 watchdog timer setting the watchdog timer is a circuit that may be used from your program software to detect system crashes or hang-ups. Led1 on this cpu board is the watchdog timer indicator, which is located at the upper-left corner above the usb connector. Whenever the watchdog ti...

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    Nagasaki ipc 49 chapter 6 technical reference this section outlines the errors that may occur when you operate the system, and also gives you the suggestions on solving the problems. Topic include: trouble shooting for error messages technical reference trouble shooting for error messages the follow...

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    Nagasaki ipc 50 cmos checksum error this error informs that the cmos has corrupted. When the battery runs weak, this situation might happen. Please check the battery and change a new one when necessary. Display switch is set incorrectly display switch on the motherboard can be set to either monochro...

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    Nagasaki ipc 51 keyboard error or no keyboard present when this situation happens, please check keyboard attachment and no keys being pressed during the boot. If you are purposely configuring the system without a keyboard, set the error halt condition in bios setup to halt on all, but keyboard. This...

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    Nagasaki ipc 52 technical reference real-time clock and non-volatile ram the pc104-688vl contains a real-time clock compartment that maintains the date and time in addition to storing configuration information about the computer system. It contains 14 bytes of clock and control registers and 114 byt...

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    Nagasaki ipc 53 address description 17 low expansion memory byte 18 high expansion memory byte 19-2d reserved 2e-2f 2-byte cmos checksum 30 low actual expansion memory byte 31 high actual expansion memory byte 32 date century byte 33 information flags (set during power on) 34-7f reserved for system ...

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    Nagasaki ipc 54 cmos ram map register description 00h -10h standard at-compatible rtc and status and status register data definitions 11h – 13h varies 14h equipment bits 7-6 number of floppy drives 00 1 drive 01 2 drives bits 5-4 monitor type 00 not cga or mda 01 40x25 cga 01 2 drives 80x25 cga bits...

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    Nagasaki ipc 55 i/o port address map each peripheral device in the system is assigned a set of i/o port addresses, which also becomes the identity of the device. There is a total of 1k-port address space available. The following table lists the i/o port addresses used on the industrial cpu card. Add...

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    Nagasaki ipc 56 interrupt request lines (irq) there are a total of 15 irq lines available on the industrial cpu card. Peripheral devices use interrupt request lines to notify cpu for the service required. The following table shows the irq used by the devices on the industrial cpu card. Level functio...

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    Nagasaki ipc 57 dma channel map the equivalent of two 8237a dma controllers are implemented in the pc104-688vl board. Each controller is a four-channel dma device that will generate the memory addresses and control signals necessary to transfer information directly between a peripheral device and me...

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    Nagasaki ipc 58 serial ports the aces (asynchronous communication elements ace1 to ace2) are used to convert parallel data to a serial format on the transmit side and convert serial data to parallel on the receiver side. The serial format, in order of transmission and reception, is a start bit, foll...

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    Nagasaki ipc 59 bit 2: enable receiver line status interrupt (elsi) bit 3: enable modem status interrupt (edssi) bit 4: must be 0 bit 5: must be 0 bit 6: must be 0 bit 7: must be 0 interrupt identification register (iir) bit 0: “0” if interrupt pending bit 1: interrupt id bit 0 bit 2: interrupt id b...

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    Nagasaki ipc 60 bit 6: set break bit 7: divisor latch access bit (dlab) modem control register (mcr) bit 0: data terminal ready (dtr) bit 1: request to send (rts) bit 2: out 1 (out 1) bit 3: out 2 (out 2) bit 4: loop bit 5: must be 0 bit 6: must be 0 bit 7: must be 0 line status register (lsr) bit 0...

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    Nagasaki ipc 61 bit 5: data set ready (dsr) bit 6: ring indicator (ri) bit 7: received line signal detect (rsld) divisor latch (ls, ms) ls ms bit 0: bit 0 bit 8 bit 1: bit 1 bit 9 bit 2: bit 2 bit 10 bit 3: bit 3 bit 11 bit 4: bit 4 bit 12 bit 5: bit 5 bit 13 bit 6: bit 6 bit 14 bit 7: bit 7 bit 15 ...

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    Nagasaki ipc 62 parallel ports register address port address read/write register base + 0 write output data base + 0 read input data base + 1 read printer status buffer base + 2 write printer control latch printer interface logic the parallel portion of the smc37c669 makes the attachment of various ...

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    Nagasaki ipc 63 bit 7: this signal may become active during data entry, when the printer is off-line during printing, or when the print head is changing position or in an error state. When bit 7 is active, the printer is busy and cannot accept data. Bit 6: this bit represents the current state of th...

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    Nagasaki ipc 64 bit 5: direction control bit. When logic 1, the output buffers in the parallel port are disabled allowing data driven from external sources to be read; when logic 0, they work as a printer port. This bit is write-only. Bit 4: a 1 in this position allows an interrupt to occur when ack...

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    Nagasaki ipc 65 appendix dimension pc104-688vl unit: mm 3 . 9 3 2 . 3 1 4 . 7 2 0 . 1 3 0 . 8 3 9 . 4 9 5 . 9 7 . 6 7 3 . 7 9 0 . 2 1 3 . 7 1 6 2 4 . 3 1 9 . 6 3 5 . 7 1 5 . 8 8 5 . 7 5 . 1 5 . 1 8 0 2 6. 7 2 5 . 4.

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    Nagasaki ipc 66 fb4605 fb4641 unit: mm 4 8 4 6. 4 3 1. 5 1 3 1 0 1 0 9 9 4 1 9 .7 8 .8 2 8 .5 4 4 2 4 14 8 9 .5 4 .6 6 5 5 0 1. 6 7 5. 3 1 2 .1 1 0 1 0 1 .2 6. 3 6. 3 1 9 . 4 1 6 . 3 3 5 . 1 19 .6 2 .5.