Inova ICP-PII user manual Interfacing, Peripherals, Software, Graphics

ICP-PIII Product Overview

®CompactPCI

1.01 Interfacing

For maximum communication flexibility, multiple interfaces satisfying different industrial stand-		1
ards are implemented. LAN applications can take advantage of Inova’s 10BaseT/100BaseTx (dual)
Ethernet implementation or, if high-speed system-level serial interfacing is required, the built-in
400/100 Mbit/s FireWire port is available. Peripherals may be connected to the standard USB or,
as an option, the on-board PCI bus allows support of custom I/O piggybacks conforming to
Inova’s open specification.
The Intel 21554 non-transparent PCI/PCI bridge is utilised for multiprocessing applications equipped
with a Master and Slave CPU in the same system.
1.02 Peripherals
The ICP-PIII supports standard PC peripherals like floppy disk, hard disk and CD ROM. Notebook
style hard disks may be connected directly to the base-board (2-slot) and possess their own front-
panel offering COM ports and PS-2 style connectors for mouse and keyboard.
1.03 Software
The following operating systems have been verified with Inova’s PIII, 3U CompactPCI CPU:
N	Linux
N Windows® NT® & VenturCom RTX® (Real-Time Extension)
N	Windows® 2000
N	Windows ® CE
N	Windows ® 9x
N	Windriver VxWorks®
N	QNX®
N Esmeralda Technology Jbed® (under development)
N	Solaris x86

All readily available application software designed for operation on the standard x86 architecture will execute without modification.

1.04 Graphics

The Lynx3DM graphic controller is a highly integrated 128-bit GUI (Graphical User Interface) engine supporting dual independent graphic displays. Screen resolutions up to 1600 x 1200 pixels with 24-bit (True Colour) are supported.

The introduction of the ATI Radeon VE, with its 16MByte video RAM and superior 3D acceleration & hardware MPEG-2 support, enables screen resolutions up to 2048 x 1536 pixels to be driven.

Dual video and TFT dual-scan/single-scan colour panels are supported with configurable colour depths. In addition, Inova’s ICP-PIII caters for the needs of the GigaST)R, PanelLink™ and LVDS user.

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