3.5" sbc with intel atom processor 1gb ddr3 memory on board, up to 2.0 gb ddr3 vga, lvds, pcie mini, rs-232/422/485, sata 3gb/s compactflash, eight usb, rohs (131 pages)
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Trademarks WAFER-4823 is a registered trademark of ICP Electronics Inc. IBM PC is a registered trademark of International Business Machines Corporation. Intel is a registered trademark of Intel Corporation. AMI is a registered trademark of American Megatrends, Inc.
Table of Contents CHAPTER 1 INTRODUCTION.............3 PECIFICATIONS ..................4 ACKAGE OF ONTENTS ................7 CHAPTER 2 INSTALLATION...............8 AYOUT ....................8 NPACKING RECAUTIONS ..............10 CPU S ETTINGS ..................10 ATCHDOG IMER ................11 ™ F LASH ............12 RI P 2..........12 ETTINGS FOR ERIAL PORT 2............13 ETTINGS OF ERIAL PORT IRQ3 IRQ4 S...
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ETECT ..............35 HANGE UPERVISOR ASSWORD .............36 ONFIGURATION WITH PTIMAL ETTINGS ......37 ONFIGURATION WITH ETTINGS ......38 4.10 ETTINGS AND ..............39 4.11 ITHOUT AVING ..............40 APPENDIX A A.WATCH-DOG TIMER ..........41 APPENDIX B I/O INFORMATION ...........43 APPENDIX C DIMENSION..............45 APPENDIX D APPENDIX D. DIGITAL INPUT AND OUTPUT ……………………………………………………………..46...
CRT display at the same time. The LCD interface connector is a 44-pin 2.0mm pitch type. The most outstanding feature in the WAFER-4823 is the built-in PC/104 expansion bus. Based on the PC/104 bus, you can easily install over thousands of PC/104 modules from hundreds vendors in the world.
Specifications The WAFER-4823 DX4-100 with LCD/CRT & Ethernet Single Board Computer provides the following specification: System ACC Maple, includes DX4-100 CPU DMA channels Interrupt levels Real-time STM48T86 or equivalent chip and quartz clock/calendar oscillator, powered by lithium battery for over 10 years of data retention.
Ethernet Interface Chipset Realtek RTL-8019AS chipset (on board). Type 16-bit Ethernet, Novell NE2000 compatible, 10Base-T 10 MBps. Connectio on-board RJ-45 connector. Integrated Multi I/O IDE hard disk drive Supports up to two IDE hard disk interface drives. Can be disabled by BIOS Setup.
Industrial features Watch-dog can be set for 1,2,10,20,110,or 220 seconds period. timer Reset or NMI is generated when CPU does not periodically trigger the timer. Your program uses hex 043 and 443 to control the watch-dog and generate a system reset. PC/104 can be set for 1,2,10,20,110,or 220 seconds period.
Package of Contents WAFER-4823 package includes the following items: One WAFER-4823 DX4-100 with LCD/CRT & Ethernet single board computer One printer cable One FDD/HDD cable One 6-pin mini-din keyboard/mouse adapter cable One power cord One RS-232/422/485 cable One user manual...
Chapter 2 Installation This chapter describes how to install the WAFER-4823. The layout of WAFER-4823 is shown on the next page and the Unpacking Precautions that you should be careful with is described on the following page. Also included is the jumpers and switches setting for this board’s configuration, such as: CPU type selection,...
Handle your WAFER-4823 SBC by its edges. Don’t touch IC chips, leads or circuitry if not necessary. Do not plug any connector or jumper while the power is on.
Watchdog Timer The Watch-Dog Timer is enabled by reading port 443H. It should be triggered before the time-out period ends, otherwise it will assume the program operation is abnormal and will issue a reset signal to start again, or activate NMI to CPU. The Watch-Dog Timer is disable by reading port 043H.
Disk-On-Chip™ Flash Disk The Disk-On-Chip™ Flash Disk Chip(DOC) is produced by M-Systems. Customers don‘t need any extra software utility because the DOC is 100% compatible to hard disk and DOC. It is just “plug and play”, easy and reliable. JP5 : Disk-On-Chip™ Memory Address •...
The Settings of Serial port2 The Serial port2 (CN4) can be set to RS-232 or RS- 422/485 for industrial field site application. • JP20 : COM2(CN4) RS-232/422/485 setting RS-232 RS-422 RS-485 Free IRQ3 and IRQ4 Settings If you want to free IRQ3 and IRQ4 for other application then the COM2 and COM1 have to be disabled by BIOS setting and the jumper JP15 and JP16 have to be closed to free IRQ3 and IRQ4,...
Clear CMOS Setup If you forget the CMOS password, you can clear or reset it by closing the JP19. After JP19 is closed, turn on the power for about 3 seconds then turn it off and open the JP19. Now, the password has been cleared from your CMOS.
Chapter 3 Connection This chapter describes how to connect peripherals, switches and indicators to the WAFER-4823 board. You can access most of the connectors from the top of the board while it is installed in the chassis. Floppy Disk Drive Connector WAFER-4823 board comes equipped with a 34-pin daisy-chain driver connector cable.
IDE Disk Drive Connector You can attach two IDE (Integrated Device Electronics) hard disk drives WAFER-4823 internal controller. The board comes equipped with a 44-pin flat-cable connector. The detailed pin assignment of the connector is specified as following table: CN9: IDE Interface Connector •...
Parallel Port This port is usually connected to a printer, The WAFER-4823 includes an on-board parallel port, accessed through a 26-pin flat-cable connector CN8. The detailed pin assignment of the connector is specified as following table: CN8 : Parallel Port Connector •...
Serial Ports The WAFER-4823 offers two high speed NS16C550 compatible UARTs with Read/Receive 16 byte FIFO serial ports. These ports let you connect to serial devices or a communication network. One 9-pin connector and one 14-pin headers are provided by the WAFER-4823.
TX2-,RX2- must be twisted each. Any how, you can only choose to use RS- 232 or RS-422/485. Keyboard/Mouse Connector The WAFER-4823 provides a 6-pin Mini-DIN connector CN2 on the board mounting bracket for single board computer applications. CN2 : PS/2Mouse, Keyboard Connector •...
PIN-NO DESCRIPTION HDD ACTIVE# External Power Connector The WAFER-4823 has an on-board external power connector CN20 and a 2-pin power connector CN18. It let you connect power directly to the CPU board without passive backplane application. CN20 : EXTERNAL POWER CONNECTOR PIN NO.
CN18 : LED POWER CONNECTOR PIN NO. Description +5V LED External Speaker The WAFER-4823 has its own buzzer, you also can connect it to the external speaker through the connector CN19 : CN19 : External Speaker Connector • PIN NO.
PC/104 Connection Bus The WAFER-4823 PC/104 expansion bus let you attach any kind of PC/104 modules. The PC/104 bus has already become the industrial embedded PC bus standard, so you can easily install over thousands of PC/104 modules from hundreds of vendors in the world.
3.10 VGA/LCD Interface Connector The WAFER-4823 provides a 2x22-pin connector for the LCD flat panel interface and a DB15 VGA connector. CN13 : 15-pin Female VGA Connector • PIN NO. Description PIN NO. Description GREEN BLUE GROUND GROUND GROUND GROUND...
3.11 LAN RJ45 Connector The WAFER-4823 built-in RJ45 LAN connector is for 10Mbps Ethernet (NE-2000 compatible) operation. CN15 : LAN RJ45 Connector • PIN NO. Description PIN NO. Description CN17 : LAN LED Connector (4-pin header) • for LAN PIN NO.
Note: for your convenience, a diskette containing files for updating the BIOS is included with the following contents: FLASH634.COM : flash utility to update following BIOS 15AMLCD.ROM WAFER-4823 V1.5A Mono DSTN640x480 V1.0 15ADSTN.ROM WAFER-4823 V1.5A Color DSTN640x480 V1.1 15ATFTS1.ROM WAFER-4823 V1.5A...
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After the POST routines are completed, the following message appears : " Hit DEL if you want to run SETUP" To access AMI BIOS SETUP UTILITY, press <Del> key. The following screen will be displayed at this time:...
Standard CMOS Setup The standard CMOS Setup is used for basic hardware system configuration. main function Date/Time setting and Floppy/Hard Disk setting. Please refer to the following screen for this setup To set the Date, for example, press either the arrow or <Enter>...
Advanced CMOS Setup The following screen will be displayed if you select Advanced CMOS Setup: You can change the value of each options by using <PgUp> and <PgDn> key. The available values are shown on the right screen. Quick Boot Enabled: this will enable the BIOS to boot quickly when you turn on your computer.
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Boot Device to define the device type for booting after the routines check up completes. If the 1 Boot Device fails, the BIOS will attempt to boot from the 2 or the 3 device. Try Other Boot Devices the BIOS will try to boot from any other available device in the system if the and 3 device fails to boot.
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Primary Display to define the type of display monitor of the system. The Absent option is for network file servers. Password Check to define if a password is necessary or not for access to the system. Boot to OS/2 if you run the OS/2 operating system, this option must be set to yes.
Peripheral Setup When you enter the Peripheral Setup, the following items are available for setting: On-board IDE to define the on-board Integrated Drive Electronics controller channel(s) to be used. Available options are: Primary, Secondary and Disabled. On-board FDC The floppy disk drive controller can be Enabled or Disabled by this item.
Disable, 3BC, 378 or 278. You can set the I/O address of the parallel port or disable it. Parallel Port Mode WAFER-4823 provides EPP, ECP, ECP/EPP, and SPP/BPP Mode. EPP passes the parallel port to be used with devices which stick to the EPP specification.
Supervisor Password and then just press the <Enter> key instead of entering a new password when the 'Enter Password' prompt pop-up. Note : if you forget the password, do the Clear/Reset CMOS procedure (see Part2.3 the CPU Setting for WAFER-4823 >> Clear CMOS SETUP)
Auto Configuration with Optimal Settings This option lets you load the Optimal default settings. These settings are best-case values which will provide the best performance. Whenever your CMOS RAM is damaged, this Optimal settings will loaded automatically.
Auto Configuration with Fail Safe Settings This option lets you load the Fail Safe default settings when something happens to your computer so that it cannot boot normally. These settings are not the most optimal settings but are the most stable settings.
4.10 Save Settings and Exit Select this option when you finish setting all the parameters and want to save them into the CMOS. Just simply press <Enter> key and all the configuration changes will be saved.
4.11 Exit Without Saving Select this option if you want to exit the Setup without saving the changes that you made. Just simply press <Enter> key and you will exit the BIOS SETUP without saving the changes.
Appendix A A.Watch-Dog Timer The Watchdog Timer is provided to ensure that standalone systems always recover from catastrophic conditions that cause the CPU to crash. This condition may have occurred by external EMI or a software bug. When the CPU stops working correctly, hardware on the board will either perform a hardware reset (cold boot) or a Non-Maskable Interrupt (NMI) to bring the system back to a known state.
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set to 10 seconds, the I/O port 443H must be read within 7 seconds. Note: when exiting a program it is necessary to disable the Watchdog Timer, otherwise the system will reset.
Signal Name Name DIN3 DIN2 DIN1 DIN0 Below is the specifications of WAFER-4823 Digital I/O: Digital Input/Output channels : 4 bits TTL Devices compatible Digital Logic level 0: +0.5V max Digital Logic level 1: 3.5V to 5V Register Address: 340H...
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