Ampro Corporation 5001451A manual On-board Peripherals

On-board Peripherals

This section describes standard peripherals found on every Little Board P6d module.

!Four buffered serial ports (Two with full handshaking)

–Implemented with 16550-equivalent controllers with built-in 16-byte FIFO buffers

–On-board generation of RS232C signal levels

–All support either RS232C, RS485, or RS422

–Logged as COM1, COM2, COM3, and COM4 by DOS

–Serial 1/Serial 3 and Serial2/Serial4 share interrupts (IRQs)

!Multi-mode Parallel Port

–Superset of standard LPT printer port

–Bidirectional data lines

–IEEE-1284 (EPP/ECP) compliant

–Standard hardware supports all four IEEE-1284 protocol modes

–Internal 16-byte FIFO buffer

–DMA option for data transfers

!Floppy Disk Controller

–Supports one or two drives

–Reliable digital phase-locked loop circuit

–BIOS supports all standard PC/AT formats: 360K, 1.2M, 720K, and 1.44M

!PCI EIDE Disk Controllers

–PCI bus implementation of Extended IDE (EIDE) hard disk controllers (2)

–Supports up to four hard disk drives.

–Fast ATA-capable interface supports high-speed PIO modes

–BIOS supports drives larger than 528MB through Logical Block Addressing (LBA)

–Supports CompactFlash interface

!PCI Audio Interface

–SoundBlaster™ Pro/16 compatibility

–Trident 4DWAVE-NX controller

–National LM4549 AD97 CODEC

–National LM4863 2W Audio Amplifier

!Flat Panel/CRT Video Controller

–Supports CRTs and flat panel LCDs

–Supports Enhanced AGP Bus Interface

–Uses state-of-the-art 69030 Multimedia Accelerator

–4MB Embedded 83MHz SDRAM

–MultiView for different/same images on separate displays (LCD with CRT or TV)

–Video modes and resolutions, and memory requirements: See video tables starting on page 3-4.

–Supports interlaced or non-interlaced displays in resolution modes up to 1280x1024.

–Supports True Color at 800x600 VGA resolution

–GUI accelerator for enhanced performance

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