Users Manual & Installation Guide

PV- 5127: Power supply module with UPS

PC/104 interface

The PV-5127 has a software interface where the CPU can read status information and perform a power-off through the PC/104 bus. The power-off can be delayed up to 253 seconds, so that the UPS monitoring can start the delayed power-off, then start a shutdown of the operating system, and the actual power-off happens after the operating system has finished shutting down.

When a delayed power-off has been initiated, the software can later cancel or modify it. This means that the delayed power-off can be used as a software watchdog: If the software e.g. once every second starts a power-off specifying a delay of 10 seconds, the system is continuously kept on. If, because of a software error, the refreshing of the delayed power-off stops, the PV-5127 will power off the system in 10 seconds. If mains is present and the system temperature is OK, the PV- 5127 will turn on again two seconds later, ensuring a clean reboot.

This interface is used by the PV-5127 UPS minidriver for Windows 2000/XP. You only need the following information if you want to write your own UPS monitoring or watchdog software.

To the CPU, the PV-5127 appears as a fixed block of eight I/O addresses at 250h-257h. It doesn’t use any memory addresses, IRQs, or DMA channels.

 

Address

Read/write

Function

 

 

250h

read only

SIGNATURE

 

 

 

 

251h

read only

STATUS

 

 

252h

read only

BAT_STATUS

 

 

253h

read only

RS232_STATUS

 

 

254h

read/write

SHUTDOWN

 

 

255h

-

Reserved

 

 

256h

-

Reserved

 

 

257h

-

Reserved

 

SIGNATURE (port 250h, read only):

This port always reads as 37h. Software can read this register to verify the presence of a PV-5127 adapter.

STATUS (port 251h, read only): 0000bmss

This port contains the following read-only status information bits.

ss(STATUS bit 1-0): System temperature, according to the internal or external system temperature sensor.

ss=00: Too cold

ss=01: Cool

ss=10: Warm

ss=11: Too hot

m (STATUS bit 2): Mains present.

m=0: Mains voltage not present, running on battery

m=1: Mains voltage present

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Micro Technic PV-5127A user manual PC/104 interface, Address Read/write Function, Signature port 250h, read only

PV-5127A, PV-5127 specifications

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