PCA-6189 User’s Manual 2
Chapter 1 Hardware Configuration1.1 Introduction
The PCA-6189 is designed with Intel® 855GME chipset and 6300ESB
(I/O controller) to support the Intel® Pentium® M / Celeron® M proces-
sor, high speed DDR333 memory, and high performance I/O functions
such as dual Gigabit Ethernet ports, Serial/parallel ATA ports, and a PCI-
X (64-bit / 66Mhz) bus. With the compliance with PICMG 1.0 specifica-
tion, PCA-6189 can be used with wide choice of existing PCI/ISA back-
planes to meet versatile requirements of industrial applications.
The PCA-6189 is designed to deliver high performance but low thermal
profile best for industrial embedded applications. It uses Intel's long-life
855GME and 6300ESB chipset, with the socket 479 it can supports vary
on the Pentium® M and Celeron® M processor by different applications.
It has 2 DIMM sockets and supports ECC (error checking and correction)
function for best reliability. It accepts up to 2GB DDR 333/266 SDRAM
memory, enough for most of applications. PCA-6189 could support dual
Giga LAN with the Gigabit Ethernet ports controller -- Intel® 82541
which is connected to the 32-bit PCI bus of the 6300ESB I/O controller.
With the 855GME integrated graphic controller PCA-6189 provides one
VGA display connector one LVDS and one DVI interface for panel dis-
play. Two serial ATA ports (up to 150MB/s)which can support RAID 0,1
functions and allows the use of thin and long SATA cables for storage
devices, eliminating the cabling issue inside an industrial grade chassis.
In addition, the PCA-6189 also provides most of the popular I/O inter-
faces such as four USB 2.0 ports, AC-97 audio interface, 2 RS-232 ports,
one enhanced parallel port and floppy disk interface.
The PCA-6189 is designed with reliability considerations to be suitable
for industrial environments. A specially designed heat-sink is attached to
the main chips to keep them cool and to extend the operating temperature
to 60 degree Celsius. The CMOS data backup and restore function pro-
tects the BIOS setup data from loss due to battery failure. A 256-level
watchdog timer prevents the system from hanging up if a program cannot
be executed normally. A remote management port allows users to moni-
tor the system healthy status and control the system remotely through the
standard SNMP/HTTP protocols when used with Advantech's SNMP-
1000 Intelligent System Manager.