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  • Page 1 ELECTRON User Manual...

  • Page 3: User Manual

    UK contact Blue Chip Technology. Information offered in this manual is believed to be correct at the time of printing. Blue Chip Technology accepts no responsibility for any inaccuracies. The information contained herein is subject to change without notice. There are no express or implied licences granted herein to any intellectual property rights of Blue Chip Technology Ltd.
  • Page 4 Amendment History Issue Issue Author Amendment Details Level Date 18/5/99 1st Issue 26/2/01 CPU Support Updated, Disk-on-chip Additions...

  • Page 5: Table Of Contents

    APPENDICES.............................. 35 ADDRESS MAPS............................35 Memory Map.............................. 35 I/O MAP ..............................35 PCI Configuration Space Map ........................36 Interrupts & DMA Channels ........................37 BIOS POST CODES, ERRor messages and beepcodes ................38 Blue Chip Technology Ltd. 0127-1028 Page 1...
  • Page 6 This extensive range of products, coupled with our experience and expertise, enables Blue Chip Technology Ltd to offer an industrial processing solution for any application. The ELECTRON Single Board PC is the latest addition to our portfolio, providing a cost effective product development and volume production tool for OEMs.

  • Page 7: Introduction

    IMITATIONS OF IABILITY In no event shall Blue Chip Technology be held liable for any loss, expenses or damages of any kind whatsoever, whether direct, indirect, incidental or consequential, arising from the design or use of this product or the support materials supplied with this product. If this product proves to be defective, Blue Chip Technology is only obliged to replace or refund the purchase price at Blue Chip Technology's discretion according to their Terms and Conditions of Sale.

  • Page 8: On-Board Lithium Cell (Bt1: Cr2032)

    ELECTRON User Manual INTRODUCTION ON-BOARD LITHIUM CELL (BT1: CR2032) This board is fitted with a Lithium cell( BT1). Great care should be taken with this type of cell. Under NO circumstances should : • the outputs be shorted • be exposed to temperatures in excess of 100° C •...

  • Page 9: User Guide

    Larger numbers of PCI slots can be supported through PCI bridged backplanes. The ELECTRON provides a buffered ISA bus. This permits up to twenty ISA slots to be driven to complete the I/O capability. The ELECTRON should only be used in PICMG back-planes. ISA only back-planes are not recommended for use with ELECTRON as power should be drawn from both the PCI and ISA connectors of the PICMG connectors.

  • Page 10: Board Level Features

    ANSI/IEEE standard 754-1985. PROCESSOR UPGRADE The ELECTRON single board PC has a 242 SECC connector (Slot 1) that provides users with a processor upgrade path. Future, faster, lower power processors being developed for use with Slot 1 can provide performance beyond that delivered by the originally installed Pentium II/III Processor.

  • Page 11: System Memory

    There may be up to 20 ISA bus expansion connectors and four PCI expansion connectors. One slot is shared by both types of connector - this is reserved for the ELECTRON processor card. All PCI expansion slots accept PCI bus master cards, and fully support the PCI specification version 2.1.

  • Page 12: Specification

    Non-Operating -40° C to +70° C Operating +0° C to +55° C (min. airflow of 200 lpm) Emissions EN55022 (A) Immunity EN50082-1 in a Blue Chip ICON Industrial PC Chassis MTBF Calculated 72,000 Hours Dimensions Board only 338 x 122 mm Power Consumption figures given are for a typical configuration.

  • Page 13: Installation

    CPU INSTALLATION The ELECTRON board supports a single Slot 1 Celeron or Pentium II/III processor. The processor connects to the board using a 242 pin right angled Slot 1 connector.
  • Page 14 ELECTRON User Manual INSTALLATION The Electron supports the following processors: (Future CPUs will also be supported) Processor Type CPU Speed Host Bus Speed Cache Size (MHz) (MHz) (Kbyte) Pentium III Celeron 300A Blue Chip Technology Ltd. 0127-1028 Page 9...

  • Page 15: Memory Installation

    3.3Volt, 5Volt modules are not supported. JUMPER SETTINGS The ELECTRON has a number of jumpers to allow the user to configure the board to suit specific applications. The functions of these jumpers is listed below: J1: CMOS Clearing link: This jumper is used to clear the contents of the battery backed CMOS memory.
  • Page 16 ELECTRON User Manual INSTALLATION J3: Half/full duplex: This jumper is used in conjunction with jumper J5. It is used to select between a half Duplex RS485 operation on the second on board serial port. When jumper J5 is set to1/2, the J3 jumper should be installed in order to select ½...
  • Page 17 ELECTRON User Manual INSTALLATION RS232 SIGNALLING SELECTED ON SECOND SERIAL PORT (J3 NOT FITTED) HALF DUPLEX SELECTED ON SECOND SERIAL PORT (J3 FITTED) FULL DUPLEX SELECTED ON SECOND SERIAL PORT (J3 NOT FITTED) Blue Chip Technology Ltd. 0127-1028 Page 12...
  • Page 18 CPU front side bus (FSB)to CPU internal frequency. The FSB is automatically determined by the ELECTRON and there are no user jumper settings for this values. The possible FSB frequencies are 66MHz and 100MHz. Given below are the current supported...

  • Page 19: Back Panel Connectors

    INSTALLATION Connectors There are three sets of connectors incorporated on the ELECTRON PC board. These provide connectivity to standard external peripherals available through the back panel connectors (network, serial ports, monitor, keyboard, etc.), in-chassis peripherals ( floppy disk, EIDE, etc.), and bus devices i.e. ISA and PCI.

  • Page 20: On-Board Connectors

    ELECTRON User Manual INSTALLATION COMBINED PS/2 MOUSE AND KEYBOARD PORT P20 (6 WAY MINI-DIN) PIN NO. SIGNAL PIN NO. SIGNAL Keyboard Data Mouse Data Ground +5 Volts (fused) Keyboard Clock Mouse Clock RS232 SERIAL PORT 1 P19 (9 WAY D-TYPE) PIN NO.
  • Page 21 ELECTRON User Manual INSTALLATION SECONDARY IDE CONNECTOR P7 (40 WAY HEADER) PIN NO. SIGNAL PIN NO. SIGNAL -Reset Ground Data bit 7 (HD) Data bit 8 (HD) Data bit 6 (HD) Data bit 9 (HD) Data bit 5 (HD) Data bit 10 (HD)
  • Page 22 ELECTRON User Manual INSTALLATION WIDE SCSI 2 CONNECTOR P4 (68 WAY HIGH DENSITY SINGLE ENDED ) PIN NO. SIGNAL PIN NO. SIGNAL Ground Data bit 12 Ground Data bit 13 Ground Data bit 14 Ground Data bit 15 Ground Data Parity P1...

  • Page 23: Ecp/Epp Parallel Port P6 (26 Way Header)

    ELECTRON User Manual INSTALLATION FLOPPY DISK DRIVE CONNECTOR P8 (34 WAY HEADER) ° ° PIN N SIGNAL PIN N SIGNAL Ground RPM/Low Current Ground Ground +Rate Ground -Index Ground -Motor 0 Ground -Drive select 1 Ground -Drive select 0 Ground...
  • Page 24 SPEAKER ( P10 pins 1 & 2) An on-board Piezo speaker is provided on the ELECTRON. An off-board speaker may be connected to the connector. The speaker provides error beep code information during the Power-On Self Test if the system cannot use the video interface.
  • Page 25 ELECTRON User Manual INSTALLATION IDE LED ( P10 pins 13 & 14) These two pins are used to connect to an LED to provide an indication that an IDE hard drive connected to the on-board IDE controller is active. This LED is shared by all the Primary and Secondary slave and master IDE devices.
  • Page 26 ELECTRON User Manual INSTALLATION USB CONNECTOR P11 (10 WAY HEADER) Signal Signal Pin N° Pin N° Chassis Port 0 -ve Ground Port 0 +ve Port 1 +ve Ground Port 1 -ve Chassis INTERNAL SVGA CONNECTOR P15 (10 WAY HEADER) Pin N°...

  • Page 27: Bus Connectors

    See the appendices for the pin-out details. Note that the PCI connector details the signals at the ELECTRON processor connector. These are different for each PCI slot on a backplane. ISA BUS XT CONNECTIONS A= Large gold fingers on main component side B= Large gold fingers on reverse side PIN NO.
  • Page 28 ELECTRON User Manual INSTALLATION ISA BUS AT CONNECTIONS C= Large gold fingers on main component side D= Large gold fingers on reverse side PIN NO. SIGNAL PIN NO. SIGNAL -SBHE -MEMCS16 LA23 -IOCS16 LA22 IRQ10 LA21 IRQ11 LA20 IRQ12 LA19...

  • Page 29: Pci Connectors

    CBEO- 3.3V 3.3V SREQ64- SACK64- NOTE: The PCI connector details shown here are for the ELECTRON processor card. The PCI connectors of a backplane differ slightly, some pins having a position dependent signal. Blue Chip Technology Ltd. 0127-1028 Page 24...
  • Page 30 ELECTRON User Manual INSTALLATION STATUS LEDS On the underside of the Electron PCB is are clusters of LEDs. These are arranged in groups to indicate the status of various board functions: P.O.S.T. DISPLAY Red LEDs D17 to D24 inclusive display the Power On Self Test (POST) data byte. Diode D17( top) represent the LSB and D24 (bottom) the MSB.

  • Page 31: Intel I740 Agp Graphics Controller

    RAPHICS ONTROLLER The ELECTRON single board PC is equipped with an Intel i740 SVGA graphics controller with 4/8 MB of graphics memory. The Trio64V has a 64-bit graphics engine that provides acceleration for scaling the video display without compromising picture quality or frame rate. The on-chip RAMDAC/clock synthesiser is capable of output pixel data rates of 220 MHz providing screen resolutions of up to 1600 x 1200 x 256 colours at 75 Hz.

  • Page 32: Bios

    ELECTRON User Manual INSTALLATION The ELECTRON single board PC uses a number of BIOS’ to perform different functions: System BIOS Video BIOS SCSI BIOS Ethernet BIOS The Pheonix system BIOS is used by the Operating system to access the onboard peripherals such as EIDE hard disks, floppy disks, USB devices, serial and parallel ports.

  • Page 34: Software Description

    An outline describing the general features of the BIOS Setup facility may be found in the Phoenix Setup Guide -see file bios-setup.pdf (Adobe Acrobat is required). This section details the differences and describes the additional features of the Electron Bios Setup. MAIN MENU SYSTEM DATE The System Date format is dd/mm/yyyy.

  • Page 35: Advanced Menu

    ELECTRON User Manual SOFTWARE DESCRIPTION ADVANCED MENU The following sub-menus have been added to this page:- PCI CONFIGURATION Provides further menus to configure the embedded SCSI and Ethernet PCI devices . AUDIO OPTIONS MENU Provides setup options for the onboard Sound utilty.

  • Page 36: Bios Extensions Software Interface

    ELECTRON User Manual SOFTWARE DESCRIPTION BIOS E XTENSIONS OFTWARE NTERFACE The BIOS extensions provide the programmer with access to some of the additional functionality provided through the hardware. This is achieved through the use of a software interrupt (int 50h). A description of the functions available is described below.
  • Page 37 ELECTRON User Manual SOFTWARE DESCRIPTION Carry flag clear if successful. Carry flag Set if unsuccessful. AH = 04H, READ E²PROM (SINGLE LOCATION) Input parameters: AH = 04h BL = Location to read (0-63) Return values: DX = E²PROM Data AH = 05H, WATCHDOG ENABLE/DISABLE This function enables the simple 500ms watchdog.

  • Page 38: Disk-On-Chip Support

    SOFTWARE DESCRIPTION UPPORT The Electron supports the use of M-Systems’ DiskOnChip 2000 or DiskOnChip Millennium Flash Modules as solid-state disks. The notes below detail the use of the device with MS-DOS. If support is required for other operating systems, please consult Blue Chip Technology Technical Services, or M-Systems web-site at www.m-sys.com, for drivers and application notes.

  • Page 39: Configuring The Disk-On-Chip As The First Drive

    ELECTRON User Manual SOFTWARE DESCRIPTION The system will boot from the DiskOnChip, and will allow you to run and access any files that have been copied into the DiskOnChip. CONFIGURING THE DISK-ON-CHIP AS THE FIRST DRIVE The DiskOnChip can be configured to be installed as the last drive (default), or as the first drive in the system.

  • Page 40: Appendices

    0170 - 0177 Secondary IDE Channel 01F0 - 01F7 Primary IDE Channel 0200 - 0207 Gameport Joystick 0278 - 027B Parallel Port 2 02E8 - 02EF Serial Port 4 02F8 - 02FF Serial Port 2 Blue Chip Technology Ltd. 0127-1028 Page 35...

  • Page 41: Pci Configuration Space Map

    BYTE @ CFCh, CFDh, CFEh or CFFh CONFIGURATION ADDRESS REGISTER BIT DEFINITION FUNCTION / SETTING 30 - 24 RESERVED 23 -16 BUS NUMBER 15 - 11 DEVICE NUMBER 10 - 8 FUNCTION NUMBER 7 - 2 REGISTER NUMBER Blue Chip Technology Ltd. 0127-1028 Page 36...

  • Page 42: Interrupts & Dma Channels

    FUNCTION NUMBER (Bits 10-8): Used to indicate a specific function in multifunction PCI devices. The PIIX is the only multi-function device on ELECTRON located on the single board PC. Use 00h for the basic PIIX device and 01h for the PCI IDE BUS MASTER FUNCTION. For a multi-function PCI add-in card, refer to the card’...

  • Page 43: Bios Post Codes, Error Messages And Beepcodes

    PPENDICES RESERVED INTERRUPTS PS/2 Mouse (if present) Math co-processor Primary E-IDE Secondary E-IDE RESERVED Floppy Cascade channel BIOS POST CODES, ERROR MESSAGES AND BEEPCODES See the file BIOSERR.PDF - (Adobe Acrobat is required). Blue Chip Technology Ltd. 0127-1028 Page 38...
  • Page 44 P13:Com2 RS232 P10: Utilities P9:Com2 RS485 P5: Fan 3 J4:CPU Freq J2: SCSI Termination Power P3: Fan 2 P4: SCSI II J3:1/2 duplex P2: Fan 1 DIMMs 1&2 Slot 1 SECC J1:CMOS BT1:Battery Blue Chip Technology Ltd. 0127-1028 Page 39...
  • Page 45 ELECTRON U ANUAL PPENDICES D7: +5 Volt -5Volt D8:-5Volt D9:+3.3 Volt D10:-12Volt D11:CPU volt D12:+12Volt D13:+2.7 Volt POST LEDs D17:LSB bit 0 D24:MSB bit 7 D25: IDE D27:RESET D29:Network D29:SCSI Blue Chip Technology Ltd. 0127-1028 Page 40...

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