PCM-4372 VIA EDEN 4" EPIC SBC with VGA/LCD/LVDS/SATA Ethernet/ USB2.0 User Manual...
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Creative is a trademark of Creative Technology LTD. CHRONTEL is a trademark of Chrontel Inc. All other product names or trademarks are properties of their respective owners. Part No. 2006437210 Edition 1 Printed in Taiwan May 2007 PCM-4372 User Manual...
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2 years global war- ranty for ADVANTECH’s standard products, a global extended warranty service is also provided for customers upon request. ADVANTECH cus- tomers are entitled to a complete and prompt repair service beyond the standard 2 years of warranty.
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ADVANTECH is not responsible whether by accident or other cause. Such conditions will be determined by ADVANTECH at its sole unfettered discretion. The product is damaged beyond repair due to a natural disaster such as a lighting strike, flood, earthquake, etc.
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Packing List Before installation, please ensure the following items have been shipped: Item Part Number 1 PCM-4372 SBC 1 Startup manual 1 Utility CD 1 mini jumper pack 9689000002 FLAT Cable 50P 20CM 3Com & LPT 1.27mm to D-sub 1700002034...
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Easy to have wireless technology with your embedded motherboard ..............56 5.1.3 The best board combination for a system ..... 56 Figure 5.1 PCM-4372 + MIO 2320 ......56 PC/104 Module Introduction........... 57 MIO-USB Introduction ........... 57 Installing SO-DIMM ............58 Optional Modules............
Chapter 1 General Information 1.1 Introduction The PCM-4372 is an EPIC SBC (Single Board Computer) with a high performance and lower power based on VIA Eden processors. The PCM- 4372, in conjunction with VIA CX700 chipset, supports processors clocked at up to 1GHz, four USB 2.0 compatible ports, dual 10/100Base-...
Standard products (0 ~ 60° C) Relative Humidity: 95% @ 60° C Phoenix products (-20 ~ 80° C) Relative Humidity: 95% @ 60° C Platinum Phoenix products (-40 ~ 85° C) Relative Humidity: 95% @ 60° C PCM-4372 User Manual...
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H/W Installation This chapter explains the setup proce- dures of the PCM-4372 hardware, including instructions on setting jump- ers and connecting peripherals, switches, indicators and mechanical drawings. Be sure to read all safety precautions before you begin the installation procedure.
Chapter 2 H/W Installation 2.1 Jumpers The PCM-4372 has a number of jumpers that allow you to configure your system to suit your application. The table below lists the functions of the various jumpers. 2.1.1 Jumper List Table 2.1: Jumpers...
Table 2.6: PCI VIO Setting (J5) Setting Function +3.3V You may configure your card to match the needs of your application by setting jumpers. A jumper is a metal bridge used to close an electric cir- cuit. It consists of two metal pins and a small metal clip (often protected by a plastic cover) that slides over the pins to connect them.
2.2 Connectors On-board connectors link the PCM-4372 to external devices such as hard disk drives, a keyboard, or floppy drives. The table below lists the func- tion of each of the board’s connectors. 2.2.1 Connector List Table 2.7: Connectors Label Function Battery Con.
2.2.2 IDE, CDROM hard drive connector (CN9) The board provides 1 IDE channels which you can attach up to two Enhanced Integrated Device Electronics hard disk drives or CDROM to the board’s internal controller. Its IDE controller uses a PCI interface. This advanced IDE controller supports faster data transfer, PIO mode 4, Multi-word DMA mode 2 and an UltraDMA-33 interface.
2.2.7 Power connectors 2.2.7.1 Main power connector, +3.3V, +5 V, +12 V (CN26) Supplies main power to the PCM-4372 (+5 V), and to devices that require +12 V. 2.2.7.2 Fan power supply connector (CN7) Provides +5V power supply to CPU cooling fan.
2.2.8.1 COM2 RS-232/422/485 setting (J2) COM2 can be configured to operate in RS-232, RS-422, or RS-485 mode. This is done via J2. Table 2.8: J2: COM2 RS-232/422/485 select Setting Function J2(1-2)(open) RS-232 J2(3-4)(open) RS-485 J2(5-6)(open) RS-422 2.2.9 VGA/LCD/LVDS interface connections The board’s PCI SVGA interface can drive conventional CRT displays and is capable of driving a wide range of flat panel displays, including passive LCD and active LCD displays.
The default setting is 4 bits input and 4 bits output. 2.2.14 SATA Connector (SA1, SA2) PCM-4372 supports Serial ATA via two connectors (SA1, SA2). Data transfer rates up to 150 MB/s are possible, enabling very fast data and file transfer, and independent DMA operation on two ports.
The modular, adaptable Award BIOS 6.0 supports the broadest range of third-party peripherals and all popular chipsets, plus Intel, AMD, nVidia, VIA and other compatible CPUs. You can use Advantech's utilities to select and install features to suit your designs according to customer needs. 3.2 BIOS Setup...
3.2.1 Main Menu Press <Del> to enter Award BIOS CMOS Setup Utility. The Main Menu will appear on the screen. Use arrow keys to select among the items and press <Enter> to accept or enter a sub-menu. Standard CMOS Features This setup page includes all standard compatible BIOS features.
The date format is <week>, <month>, <day>, <year>. • Week: From Sun to Sat, determined and display by BIOS only • Month: From Jan to Dec. • Day: From 1 to 31 • Year: From 1999 through 2098 PCM-4372 User Manual...
Time The time format is: <hour> <minute> <second>. The time is in 24-hour format. IDE Channel 0 Master/Slave • IDE HDD Auto-Detection: Press “Enter” for automatic device detection. IDE Channel 1 Master/Slave • IDE HDD Auto-Detection: Press “Enter” for automatic device detection.
This field speeds up the Power-On Self Test (POST) routine by skipping retesting a second, third and forth time. This setting is enabled by default. USB Flash Disk Type [Auto] This item allows users to change the flash disk format. The default setting is auto. PCM-4372 User Manual...
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First / Second / Third / Other Boot Drive • Floppy: Select boot device priority by Floppy. • LS120: Select boot device priority by LS120. • Hard Disk: Select boot device priority by Hard Disk. • CDROM: Select boot device priority by CDROM. •...
This item allows users to select size of system memory used to sup- port AGP graphics. The system default is setting is “128MB”. • AGP 2.0 Mode [4X] This item allows users to select the AGP type. The system default setting is “4X”. PCM-4372 User Manual...
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• AGP Driving Control [Auto] This item allows users to adjust the AGP Drive Control Switch. The system default setting is “Auto”. • AGP Driving Value [DA] This item allows users to adjust the AGP Drive value. The system default setting is to “DA”. •...
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This item allows the video BIOS to be cached to allow faster execution and better performance. Init Display First [PCI Slot] This setting determines whether the onboard video interface or a PCI video card is used for video output during start up. PCM-4372 User Manual...
3.2.5 Integrated Peripherals Note This “Integrated Peripherals” option controls the configuration of the board's chipset, including IDE, ATA, SATA, USB, AC97, MC97, Super IO and sensor devices. This page is chipset inde- pendent. VIA OnChip IDE Device [Press Enter] This item enables users to set VIA OnChip IDE device status. This includes enabling IDE devices and setting PIO and DMA access modes.
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This item allows users to select the COM6 I/O port IRQ number. The default value is “IRQ10”. USB Device Setting [Press Enter] This item allows users to enable or disable USB devices. These include USB 1.0, 2.0, USB keyboard, USB mouse, USB storage and USB mode. PCM-4372 User Manual...
3.2.6 Power Management Setup Note “Power management Setup” configures the sys- tem to most effectively save energy while operat- ing according to your computer usage style. ACPI Function [Enabled] This item enables or disables the ACPI (Advanced Configuration and Power Management) feature. ACPI improves power management by communicating with PC and system devices to make hardware status information available to the operating system.
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This item allows the system to reinitialize VGA BIOS after the system resumes from ACPI S3 mode. PWRON After PWR-Fail [Off] This item allows users to select the power fail function. The function depends on chipset design. PCM-4372 User Manual...
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Wakeup Event Detect [Press Enter] This item allows users to which event wakes up the system. • Modem Ring Resume [Disabled] This item determines whether or not a modem ring wakes up the system. The default setting is “Disabled”. RTC Alarm Resume [Disabled] This item allows users to enable and key in a date/time to power on the system.
VGA cards. A built-in VGA system does not need this function. Assign IRQ For VGA [Enabled] This allows users to enable or disable VGA IRQ assignment. Assign IRQ For USB [Enabled] This allows users to enable or disable USB IRQ assignment. PCM-4372 User Manual...
3.3.1 PC Health Status Note This PC Health Status option controls the ther- mal, fan and voltage status of the board. This page is chipset independent. CPU Warning Temperature [Disabled] This item enables users to set the CPU warning temperature from 50° C to 70°...
This item enables or disables automatic PCI clock detection. Spread Spectrum [Disabled] This item enables users to set the spread spectrum modulation. CPU Host/AGP/PCI Clock [Default] This item enables users to set automatic or manual CPU Host, AGP and PCI clock detection. PCM-4372 User Manual...
3.3.3 Load Optimized Defaults Note Load Optimized Defaults loads the default sys- tem values directly from ROM. If the stored record created by the Setup program should ever become corrupted (and therefore unusable) these defaults will load automatically when you turn the system on.
<Enter>. When you see “Enter Password”, enter the desired password and press <Enter>. At the “Confirm Password” prompt, retype the desired password, then press <Enter>. Select Save to CMOS and EXIT, type <Y>, then <Enter>. PCM-4372 User Manual...
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To Change Password Choose the Set Password option from the CMOS Setup Utility main menu and press <Enter>. When you see “Enter Password”, enter the existing password and press <Enter>. You will see “Confirm Password”. Type it again, and press <Enter>.
CMOS. Type “N” to return to the BIOS Setup Utility. 3.3.6 Quit Without Saving Note Type “Y” to quit the BIOS Setup Utility without saving to CMOS. Type “N” to return to the BIOS Setup Utility. PCM-4372 User Manual...
Chapter 4 S/W installation 4.1 S/W Introduction The mission of Advantech Embedded Software Services is to “Enhance quality of life with Advantech platforms and Microsoft Windows® embedded technology.” We enable Windows® Embedded software prod- ucts on Advantech platforms to more effectively support the embedded computing community.
The same APIs can be used for different Advantech hardware plat- forms. Besides, the same set of APIs is implemented in different operating systems including Windows XP and Windows CE. This user manual describes some sample programs and the API in SUSI. The hard-...
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I/O chip along with sensors to monitor items such as fan speed, temperature and voltage. Commercial hardware monitoring chips are not accurate, so Advantech has developed a unique scheme for hardware monitoring. This uses a ded- icated microprocessor and algorithms specifically designed for providing accurate real-time data, to protect your system in a more reliable manner.
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Click Next. Windows CE In windows CE, there are three ways to install SUSI Library. You can install it manually, use Advantech CE-Builder to install the library or just copy the programs and the library into a CompactFlash card. Express Installation:...
4.0 on Windows CE and the Windows XP version must be compiled with Microsoft Visual C++ 6.0 on Windows XP. Developers must add the header file Susi.h and library Susi.lib to their own projects when they want to develop something with SUSI. PCM-4372 User Manual...
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SusiDemo.exe The SusiDemo.exe test application is an application that uses all func- tions of the SUSI Library. It consists of Watchdog, GPIO, SMBus, I and VGA control. The following screen is shown when you execute Susi- Demo.exe. You can click function tabs to select test functions respec- tively.
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GPIO 0, bit 1 stands for GPIO 1, etc. For example, if you want to read pin 0, 1, and 3, the pin numbers should be ‘0x0B’. Click the READ GPIO DATA button to show the statuses of GPIO pins in the (R/W) Result field. PCM-4372 User Manual...
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To test write a single output pin: Click the single pin radio button. Key in the pin number you want to write to. Pin numbers start from '0'. Key either '0' or '1' into the (R/W) Result field to write the output pin you chose in the step 1.
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Key the slave device address into the Slave Address field. Key the register offset into the Register Offset field. Key the desired data into the Result field to write to the device. Click the WRITE A BYTE button to write to the device through PCM-4372 User Manual...
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SMBus When the application is executed, you can click a radio button to choose to test each access mode, i.e. Access a byte, Access multiple bytes and Access a word. All data must be read or written in hexadecimal, except the number of bytes of the Access multiple bytes mode, which must be written in the decimal system.
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Key the desired data into the Result field in hexadecimal format. The data must be delimited by commas, e.g., 0x50,0x60,0x7A. Click the WRITE SMBus DATA button to write to the device through SMBus. PCM-4372 User Manual...
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VGA Control When the application is executed, it will display two blocks of VGA con- trol functions. The application can turn on or turn off the screen shot freely, and it also can tune the brightness of the panels if your platform is supported.
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Before the timer counts down to zero, you can reset the timer by clicking the REFRESH button. After you click this button, the Time-out Countdown field will display the value of the SET TIME- OUT field. • If you want to stop the watchdog timer, click the STOP button. PCM-4372 User Manual...
Hardware Monitor When the application is executed by clicking the Monitor button, it will display hardware monitoring data values. If certain data value are not supported on the platform, the corresponding data field will be shown in gray with value 0. Chapter 4...
USB interface. Also, there are more advanced applications like GPS, Zigbee, and RFID that are going to be introduced in a near future. 5.1.3 The best board combination for a system Figure 5.1: PCM-4372 + MIO 2320 PCM-4372 User Manual...
5.2 PC/104 Module Introduction Aim the pinconnector to thefootprint and applyforce evenly. After applyingforce to the IPCconnector, the footprint of the module / CPU boa rd needsto be inserted correctly. After applying force to the connector, the footprint of the module / CPU board needs to be inserted correctly.
Push the module into the socket until the module bottoms. There should be a slight insertion force to engage the module into the con- tacts. PCM-4372 User Manual...
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GPIO & the Watchdog Timer The PCM-4372 is equipped with a watchdog timer that resets the CPU or generates an interrupt if processing comes to a standstill for any reason. This feature ensures system reliability in industrial standalone or unmanned...
Pin Name Signal Type Signal Level VBAT +3.3V B.2 GPIO Connector(CN2) Table B.2: GPIO Connector(CN2) Part Number 1653005261 Footprint JH5X2S-2M Description PIN HEADER SMD 5*2P 180D(M) 2.0mm Pin Name Signal Type Signal Level GPIO4 GPIO0 GPIO5 GPIO1 GPIO6 PCM-4372 User Manual...
Table B.2: GPIO Connector(CN2) GPIO2 GPIO7 GPIO3 B.3 Power Switch (CN3) Table B.3: Power Switch (CN3) Part Number 1655302020 Footprint WHL2V-2M Description WAFER BOX 2P 180D 2.0mm MALE W/Lock Pin Name Signal Type Signal Level FP_PSIN Appendix B...
B.6 RS-422/485(CN6) Table B.6: RS-422/485(CN6) Part Number 1653004101 Footprint JH4X1V-2M Description PIN HEADER 4*1P 180D(M) SQUARE 2.0mm Pin Name Signal Type Signal Level 422_RXD- 422_RXD+ 485-422_TXD+ 485-422_TXD- Appendix B...
Signal Level FAN_IO +12V +12V B.8 KB_MS (CN8) Table B.8: KB_MS (CN8) Part Number 1654606203 Footprint MINIDIN6-H Description MINI DIN 6P 90D(F) D Short body W/Shielding W/Pb Pin Name Signal Type Signal Level KB_DAT MS_DAT KB_CLK MS_CLK PCM-4372 User Manual...
B.10 Compact II W/Ejector (CN10) Table B.10: Compact II W/Ejector (CN10) Part Number 1653025215 Footprint COMPACK-T12 Description HEADER for CF Type II 50P 90D(M)Standoff 2.0mm Pin Name Signal Type Signal Level IDE1_D3 IDE1_D4 IDE1_D5 IDE1_D6 IDE1_D7 IDE1_CS#1 IDE1_A10 IDE1_OE# IDE1_A9 IDE1_A8 IDE1_A7 IDE1_A6...
CF_ASP# CF_S66DET# IDE1_D8 IDE1_D9 IDE1_D10 B.11 HD & Power LED (CN11) Table B.11: HD & Power LED (CN11) Part Number 1653004101 Footprint JH4X1V-2M Description PIN HEADER 4*1P 180D(M) SQUARE 2.0mm Pin Name Signal Type Signal Level HD_LED PCM-4372 User Manual...
B.12 Inverter Power (CN12) Table B.12: Inverter Power (CN12) Part Number 1655305020 Footprint WHL5V-2M Description WAFER BOX 2.0mm 5P 180D MALE W/LOCK Pin Name Signal Type Signal Level LVDS0_V12 +V12 LVDS0_ENABKL OUT LVDS0_VBR LVDS0_V5 B.13 LVDS0 Connector (CN13) Table B.13: LVDS0 Connector (CN13) Part Number 1653920200 Footprint...
B.14 VGA Connector (CN14) Table B.14: VGA Connector (CN14) Part Number 1654000055 Footprint DBVGA-VF5MS Description D-SUB Conn. 15P 90D(F) DIP 070242FR015S200ZU Pin Name Signal Type Signal Level B.15 LAN1 (CN15) Table B.15: LAN1 (CN15) Part Number 1652000147 Footprint RJ45X10-LED-1AX9 Pin Name Signal Type Signal Level LAN_TX+...
B.16 LAN2 (CN16) Table B.16: LAN2 (CN16) Part Number 1652000147 Footprint RJ45X10-LED-1AX9 Pin Name Signal Type Signal Level LAN_TX+ Analog LAN_TX- Analog LAN_RX+ Analog LAN_MID0+ Analog LAN_MID0- Analog LAN_RX- Analog LAN_MID1+ Analog LAN_MID1- Analog PCM-4372 User Manual...
B.17 USB0/1 (CN17) Table B.17: USB0/1 (CN17) Part Number 1654908100 Footprint USBX2-V Description USB Conn. DUAL port 8Pin90D(M) Black Pin Name Signal Type Signal Level USB0_P- USB0_P+ USB1_P- USB1_P+ Appendix B...
B.23 ATX Power Connector (CN26) Table B.23: ATX Power Connector (CN26) Part Number 1655000042 Footprint ATXCON-2X5-42-1 Description Pin Name Signal Type Signal Level PS_ON VCC_12V +12V VCC3 +3.3V VCC_SB V-12V -12V PCM-4372 User Manual...
Appendix D ATX Power setting D.1 D.1 Introduction PCM-4372 supports ATX power mode to boot up system. ATX should connect standby power and power supply on# signal to turn on main power supply. The power connector table & Power supply diagram tables are as bellow: Table D.1: ATX Power Connector.
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