Motorola CPCI-6115 manual About this Manual, Overview of Contents

About this Manual

Overview of Contents

This manual, CPCI-6115 CompactPCI Single Board Computer Installation and Use, provides general information, hardware preparation and installation instructions, operating instructions, firmware information, functional descriptions and pin assignments for the CPCI-6115 Single Board Computer (SBC).

This manual is divided into the following chapters and appendices:

Safety Notes, contains the warnings, cautions, and notices that precede potentially dangerous procedures, alert the user to practices that could cause minor injury, or possibly damage the product.

Sicherheitshinweise, contains the German translation of these warnings, cautions, and notices.

Chapter 1, Introduction, describes the features of the CPCI-6115, standard compliances, and ordering information.

Chapter 2, Hardware Preparation and Installation, provides an overview of basic operating and configuring issues such as the MOTLoad firmware, and environmental, power, and thermal requirements. The remainder of the chapter provides information on hardware preparation and installation instructions, including peripheral boards such as the CPCI-6115-MCPTM transition module.

Chapter 3, Controls, LEDs, and Connectors, on page 49 describes face plate and on-board connectors and their pin assignment. On-board headers and their settings are also discussed.

Chapter 4, Functional Description, provides a description of the major components and functionality of the MCPN905.

Chapter 5, Transition Module Preparation and Installation, provides information on the transition module that is compatible with the CPCI-6115. Information includes a brief overview, unpacking instructions, board preparation and installation instructions, face plate and on-board connector descriptions and pin assignments. Other sections describe the functionality, the PIMs that are installed on the transition module, along with installation and removal instructions.

Chapter 6, Remote Start via the PCI Bus, describes the remote interface provided by the firmware to the host CPU via the CompactPCI bus. This interface facilitates the host obtaining information about the board, downloading code and/or data, and execution of the downloaded program.

Chapter 7, MOTLoad Firmware, provides an overview and description of basic MOTLoad use including implementation issues, a list of the initialization sequence, and a description of basic commands.

Chapter 8, Memory Maps, provides an overview of the memory maps, interrupts, arbitration, sources of reset and endian issues.

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