Chapter 2 | Product Overview |
Product Description
The ReadyBoard 700 is a mid-sized, EPIC-compatible, low cost, high quality single-board system, which contains all the component subsystems of a PC/AT PCI motherboard plus the equivalent of up to 5 PCI expansion boards. The ReadyBoard 700 is based on either the ultra high performance, high- integration 933MHz Low Voltage Pentium® III processor, or the Low- Voltage 650MHz Celeron processor, or the low cost, Ultra Low-Voltage 400MHz Celeron processor. With these processor choices, the ReadyBoard 700 gives designers the choice of a complete, high performance embedded processor based on the EPIC form factor that conforms to the Revision 1.0 of the EPIC standard.
Each ReadyBoard 700 incorporates a VIA Technologies, Inc. Twister-T chipset (VT8606 and VT82C686B chips) with a Winbond Electronics Corp. Super I/O controller (W83877TF) chip that together provide four serial ports, a floppy or EPP/ECP parallel port, four USB 1.1 OHCI ports, PS/2 keyboard and mouse interfaces, an Ultra/DMA 33/66/100 IDE controller supporting two IDE drives and one CompactFlash socket, two independent 10/100BaseT Ethernet interfaces, and an audio AC’97 CODEC on board. The ReadyBoard also supports up to 512MB of SDRAM in a single 144-pin SODIMM socket, and a AGP 4x graphics controller, which provides CRT and flat panel video interfaces for the most popular LCD panels.
The ReadyBoard 700 can be expanded through the PC/104 and PC/104-Plus expansion buses for additional system functions. These busses offer compact, self-stacking, modular expandability. The PC/104 is an embedded system version of the signal set provided on a desktop PC's ISA bus. The PC/104-Plus bus includes this signal set, and in addition, signals implementing a PCI bus, available on an additional 120-pin (4 rows of 30 pins) PCI expansion bus connector. This PCI bus operates at a clock speed of 33MHz.
Among the many embedded enhancements on the ReadyBoard 700 that ensure embedded system operation and application versatility are a watchdog timer, serial console support, battery-free boot, customizable splash screen, on-board high-density CompactFlash card, and Ampro BIOS extensions for OEM boot customization.
The ReadyBoard 700 is particularly well suited to either embedded or portable applications and meets the size, power consumption, temperature range, quality, and reliability demands of embedded system applications. It can be stacked with Ampro MiniModules™ or other PC/104-compliant expansion boards, or it can be used as powerful computing engine. The ReadyBoard 700 only requires a single +5V power supply.
Board Features
•CPU features
♦933MHz LV Pentium® III Processor, 650MHz LV Celeron® or 400MHz ULV Celeron® CPU
♦The Penitum III CPU has a Front Side Bus (FSB) of 133MHz, while the Celeron CPUs have a Front Side Bus (FSB) of 100MHz
•Memory
♦Single standard 144-pin SODIMM socket
♦Supports a single +3.3V SDRAM SODIMM up to 512MB
♦Supports 100MHz (10ns) and 133MHz (7.5ns) clock speeds
•PC/104 and PC/104-Plus Bus Interface
♦PC/104 Bus speed at 8MHz
♦PCI 2.2 compliant
♦PCI Bus speed at 33MHz
•IDE Interfaces
♦Supports two enhanced IDE controllers (2 IDE drives plus CompactFlash card)
