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TS-3200 User's Manual
1 Introduction
The model TS-3200 is a compact, full-featured PC compatible Single Board Computer based on the
386EX processor. If you are coming up from the 8-bit microcontroller world, you will find that this
product provides much more performance and much quicker development since you can now use
standard PC development tools such as Turbo C or Quick Basic. If you have done work in the PC
world in the past, you will find you can now build applications for a very small target that does not
require a keyboard, video, floppy disks, or hard drives.
You can typically write and debug code on a host PC using standard development tools for the PC
platform, then simply copy it to and run it on the TS-3200 without modification. If additional peripherals
are required, the PC/104 expansion bus allows for many standard functions available off-the-shelf. It is
also very simple to create a custom PC/104 daughter board for those special features that differentiate
your product. Technologic Systems can provide technical support as well as a free quotation for any
custom hardware, software, or BIOS modifications you may require.
This manual is fairly short. This is because for the most part, the TS-3200 is a standard 80386-based
PC compatible computer, and there are hundreds of books about writing software for the PC platform.
The purpose of this manual is documenting where the TS-3200 differs from a standard PC.
2 PC Compatibility
PC compatibility requires much more than just a 386 processor. It requires PC compatible memory and
I/O maps as well as a PC compatible BIOS. The General Software EMBEDDED BIOS offers a high
degree of compatibility with past and present BIOS standards allowing it to run off-the shelf operating
systems and application software.
The EMBEDDED BIOS has been tested with all major versions of DOS, including MS-DOS, DR-DOS,
and Embedded DOS 6-XL; all major versions of OS/2, including MS-OS/2 and IBM OS/2; MS-Windows
3.1, Windows-95, Windows NT, and NetWare 386.
2.1 Operating Systems
Technologic Systems Embedded PCs are compatible with a wide variety of x86-based operating
systems. A partial list OSes currently used with our boards by customers includes:
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TNT Embedded Toolsuite, Phar Lap Software
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UCos II
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RTKernel, On Time Software
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RTEMS, On-Line Applications Research Corporation
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DOS with WATTCP, public domain TCP/IP source code for DOS
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Linux
The TS-3200 is shipped, free of charge, with Embedded DOS ROM by General Software.
The TS-3200 can be shipped upon request with Linux pre-installed for a nominal fee. The Linux file
system and kernel is also freely available on the web should you wish to install it yourself. The Linux
OS requires a 16MB or larger Compact Flash or an M-System's DiskOnChip.
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Technologic Systems
05/21/2009
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