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FX5401 Embedded Computers
Small System User's Manual
FEB 2005
Version: 1.1
Part Number: FX5401

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  • Page 1 FabIATech Corporation IPC Solution Website: http://www.fabiatech.com Email: support@fabiatech.com FX5401 Embedded Computers Small System User’s Manual FEB 2005 Version: 1.1 Part Number: FX5401...
  • Page 2 FabIATech shall not be reliable for technical or editorial errors or omissions, which may occur in this document. FabIATech shall not be reliable for any indirect, special, incidental or consequential damages resulting from the furnishing, performance, or use of this document.

  • Page 3: Table Of Contents

    Table of Contents FX5401 Embedded Computers....................i Small System User’s Manual......................i Chapter 1 Introducing the FX5401 System ................1 Overview..........................1 Series Comparison Table .......................2 Layout............................3 Specifications..........................4 Packing List ..........................5 Chapter 2 Hardware Installation ....................7 Before Installation ........................7 Removing Covers –Installing HDD or Compact Flash........8 　...
  • Page 4 Audio Drivers .........................38 WIN 95/98 Driver ......................38 Watchdog Timer........................39 Watchdog Timer Setting ...................40 Watchdog Timer Enabled ..................41 Watchdog Timer Trigger ...................41 Watchdog Timer Disabled..................42 Chapter5 Error Coding ......................43 Trouble Shooting for Post Beep and Error Messages............43 Appendix........................... 47 Dimension ..........................47 Technical Reference......................48 Physical and Environmental ..................48 Real-Time Clock and Non-Volatile RAM ..............48...

  • Page 6: Chapter 1 Introducing The Fx5401 System

    FabIATech Corporation Chapter 1 Introducing the FX5401 System Overview The FX5401 is a 1U embedded system with 3.5" low-power Pentium CPU module inside. This user’s manual provides information on the physical features, installation, and BIOS setup of the FX5401. Built to unleash the total potential of the Pentium Processor, Able to support 300 MHz CPUs, this system supports dual 10/100M interface network port, audio, 1 So- DIMM socket for up to 256MB PC-100 SDRAM, and a 4MB PCI-VGA controller.

  • Page 7: Series Comparison Table

    FabIATech Corporation Series Comparison Table Model FX5401 Processor GX1-300Mhz Chipset CS5530A 1So-DIMM(Max. SDRAM) 128MB Standard 256MB/512MB (Option) CRT VGA Watchdog Timer Multi I/O Two RS232 Enhanced IDE or CF Audio Line-In/Out RJ45 Ethernet (10/100Mbps) Dual Dimensions (Unit: mm) 200(L) x 130(W) X 44(H)

  • Page 8: Layout

    FabIATech Corporation Layout 18~30V 18~30V...

  • Page 9: Specifications

    FabIATech Corporation Specifications Processor Board – FB2530 inside, 300 MHz low-power Pentium CPU with 128MB SDRAM. I/O Outlets – Dual 100M / 10M Ethernet with RJ-45 ports. One parallel port with DB25 port. Two Serials RS-232 with DB9 ports. PS/2 compatible keyboard and mouse interface.

  • Page 10: Packing List

    Verify the accessories in the package according to the packing list and see if there is anything missing or incorrect package is included. • If the cable(s) you use to install the FX5401 is not supplied from us, please make sure the specification of the cable(s) is compatible with the FX5401 system.
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  • Page 12: Chapter 2 Hardware Installation

    FabIATech Corporation Chapter 2 Hardware Installation This chapter introduces the system connectors & jumper settings, and guides you to apply them for field application. Before Installation Before you install the system, make sure you follow the following descriptions. 1. Before removing the cover, shut down the operation System and disconnect power switch to off and unplug AC-to DC Adapter cable.

  • Page 13: Removing Covers -Installing Hdd Or Compact Flash

    Removing Covers –Installing HDD or Compact Flash If you are installing hardware option, you can remove the top cover or left side cover. The following figure will guide you how to install 2.5" HDD inside the FX5401 and how to install the FX5401 fixers.

  • Page 14: Connecting The Monitor, Keyboard, Mouse

    Gently slide the hard disk into the IDE2 and stop when you feel resistance. Connecting the Monitor, Keyboard, Mouse To connector the peripheral control devices and monitor to the FX5401, refer to the following procedure. Connector the monitor, keyboard and mouse to the FX5401 using the connections provided on the rear of the chassis.

  • Page 15: Connecting The Com Ports And Parallel Port

    FabIATech Corporation 1. A VGA connector is provided for CRT display DB15 Signal Green Blue Hsync Vsync DDC Data DDC Clock 5 & 10 Digital Ground 6,7,8 Analog Ground Others Not Used 2. The connector use the included adapter cable you can attach standard PS/2 type keyboard and mouse.

  • Page 16: Connecting The Lan Ports And Usb Ports

    FabIATech Corporation The printer is standard DB25 connector. DB-25 Description DB-25 Description -STROBE -AUTO FORM FEED DATA 0 -ERROR DATA 1 -INITIALIZE DATA 2 -PRINTER SELECT IN DATA 3 Ground DATA 4 Ground DATA 5 Ground DATA 6 Ground DATA 7...
  • Page 17 FabIATech Corporation The Fx5401 supports a dual port USB connector. Any USB device can be attached to USB ports with plug-and-play supported. The up side port is USB #1 and the down side port is USB #2 USB#1/#2 Signal USB#1/#2...

  • Page 18: Connecting The Dc Power Jack And Power Switch

    FabIATech Corporation Connecting the DC Power Jack and Power Switch Power is supplied through an external AC/DC power adapter. Check the technical specification section for information about AC/DC power input voltage. DC +24V, 25% tolerance 0.8A minimum Since the switch does include a power switch, plugging its power adapter into a power outlet then switch power to on (1), when you final installed system hardware device.
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  • Page 20: Chapter 3 Bios Setup

    FabIATech Corporation Chapter 3 BIOS Setup This chapter describes the BIOS setup. Overview BIOS are a program located on a Flash memory chip on a circuit board. It is used to initialize and set up the I/O peripherals and interface cards of the system, which includes time, date, hard disk drive, the ISA bus and connected devices such as the video display, diskette drive, and the keyboard.

  • Page 21: Bios Functions

    FabIATech Corporation BIOS Functions On the menu, you can perform the following functions 1. Standard CMOS Setup- 2. BIOS Features Setup 3. Chipset Features Setup 4. Advanced Chipset Setup 5. Power Management Setup 6. PNP/PCI Configuration 7. Load BIOS Defaults 8.

  • Page 22: Keyboard Convention

    FabIATech Corporation Keyboard Convention On the BIOS, the following keys can be used to operate and manage the menu: Item Function To exit the current menu or message Page Up/Page Down To select a parameter Save and exit To change the color of the menu display. F2 is to go forward and F3 is to go backward.

  • Page 23: Standard Cmos Setup

    FabIATech Corporation Standard CMOS Setup This section describes basic system hardware configuration, system clock setup and error handling. If the CPU board is already installed in a working system, you will not need to select this option anymore. Date & Time Setup Highlight the <Date>...
  • Page 24 FabIATech Corporation jumpers, please refer to the hard disk’s installation descriptions and the hard disk jumper settings. You can select <AUTO> under the <TYPE> and <MODE> fields. This will enable auto detection of your IDE drives during boot up. This will allow you to change your hard drives (with the power off) and then power on without having to reconfigure your hard drive type.
  • Page 25 FabIATech Corporation installed in the system. The value of the base memory is typically 512K for systems with 512K memories installed on the motherboard, or 640K for systems with 640K or more memory installed on the motherboard. Extended Memory The BIOS determines how much extended memory is present during the POST. This is the amount of memory located above 1MB in the CPU’s memory address map.

  • Page 26: Bios Features Setup

    FabIATech Corporation BIOS Features Setup This section describes the configuration entries that allow you to improve your system performance, or let you set up some system features according to your preference. Some entries here are required by the CPU board’s design to remain in their default settings.
  • Page 27 FabIATech Corporation Available options: Disabled, Enabled Default setting: Enable Boot Sequence This field specifies which device the system looks first upon power on. The item has different boot sequence options of three drives each. In addition to the traditional driver A and C, options include IDE hard drivers D, E and F, plus a SCSI hard driver and CD-ROM drive, USB CD-ROM and USB-HDD.
  • Page 28 FabIATech Corporation Gate A20 Option This item is chosen as <Normal>, the A20 signal is controlled by keyboard controller or chipset hardware. The selection is “Fast” Port 92 or a chipset specific method controls means the A20 signal Available options: Normal, Fast...
  • Page 29 FabIATech Corporation PCI/VGA Palette Snoop This option must be set to Enabled if any ISA adapter card installed in the computer requires VGA palette snooping. Available options: Enable, Disable Default setting: Disable OS Select for DRAM > 64MB This segment is specifically created for OS/2 when DRAM is large than 64MB,if you operating system is OS/2 and DRAM used is large 64MB, You have to select “OS/2”...

  • Page 30: Chipset Features Setup

    FabIATech Corporation Chipset Features Setup This section describes the configuration of the board’s chipset features. SDRAM CAS AUTO Latency Time This field specifies the latency for the Synchronous DRAM system memory signals. Available Options: 3T, 2T Default setting: 3 T...
  • Page 31 FabIATech Corporation Default setting: 5 Sysclk 16Bit I/O Recovery Time This field specifies the recovery time for 16Bit I/O. Available Options: Disabled, 1 –8 Sysclk Default setting: 5 Sysclk USB Controller Select Enabled if a USB device is installed to the system. If Disabled are selected, the system will not be able to use a USB device.
  • Page 32 FabIATech Corporation Flat Panel Resolution When use the LCD the field specifies which select display resolution for different TFT LCD display type. Available Options: 640x480, 800x600 and 1024x768 Default setting: 640X480...

  • Page 33: Power Management

    FabIATech Corporation Power Management Power Management The field determines how much power consumption is needed for the system after selecting the below items. Doze Mode This field defines the continuous idle time before the system enters Doze Mode. Standby Mode This field defines the continuous idle time before the system enters Standby Mode.
  • Page 34 FabIATech Corporation These options enable event monitoring. When the computer is in a power saving mode, activity on the named interrupt request line is monitored by BIOS. When any activity occurs, the computer enters Full On mode.

  • Page 35: Pci/Plug And Play

    FabIATech Corporation PCI/Plug and Play PNP O/S Installed Set to Yes to inform BIOS that the operating system can handle Plug and Play (PnP) devices. Available Options: Yes, No Default setting: No Resources Controlled By: Auto, Manual If you select Auto, all the interrupt request (IRQ), DMA assignment, and Used DMA fields disappear, as the BIOS automatically assigns then.
  • Page 36 FabIATech Corporation IRQ-n/DMA-n Assigned: PCI/ISA PnP, Legacy ISA The resources are controlled manually. 1. Legacy ISA Devices compliant with the original PC AT bus specification, requiring a specific interrupt/DMA (such as IRQ4, IRQ3 for serial port 1 and 2). 2. PCI/ISA PnP Devices compliant with Plug and play standard, whether designed for PCI or ISA bus.

  • Page 37: Peripheral Setup

    0 to 4, which primarily differ in timing. When Auto is selected, the BIOS will select the best available mode. OnBoard FDC This field enables the floppy drive controller on the FX5401. Available Options: Auto, Disabled, Enabled Default setting: Auto...
  • Page 38 FabIATech Corporation OnBoard Serial Port 1 These fields select the I/O port address for each Serial port. Available Options: Disabled, 3F8H/IRQ4, 2F8H/IRQ3, 3E8H/IRQ4, 2E8H/IRQ3 Default setting: 3F8H/IRQ4 OnBoard Serial Port 2 These fields select the I/O port address for each Serial port.
  • Page 39 FabIATech Corporation Build In CPU Audio This field specifies the internal Audio Control. Available Options: Disable, Enable Default setting: Enable Audio Base I/O Address These fields select the I/O port address for Audio. Available Options: 220H, 240H, 260H and 280H...

  • Page 40: Password Setup

    FabIATech Corporation Password Setup There are two security passwords: Supervisor and User. Supervisor is a privileged person that can change the User password from the BIOS. According to the default setting, both access passwords are not set up and are only valid after you set the password from the BIOS.
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  • Page 42: Chapter 4 Software Installation

    FabIATech Corporation Chapter 4 Software Installation The enclosed diskette includes FX5401 VGA, AUDIO driver and LAN driver. To install and configure you FX5401 system, you need to perform the following steps. Installation WIN 95/98 Copy completely Window 98 and required drivers to the Hard drive execute this step on the normal PC, not on the FX5401 system.

  • Page 43: Lan Utility & Driver

    FabIATech Corporation {CONTROL PANEL} group. Adjust the <Resolution> and <Color>, LAN Utility & Driver To install the LAN utility OR driver, insert the CD ROM into the CD ROM device, and enter DRIVER>LAN>RTL8139C. If your system is not equipped with a CD ROM device, copy the LAN VGA driver from the CD ROM to a 1.44”...

  • Page 44: Watchdog Timer

    This section describes how to use the Watchdog Timer, including disabled, enabled, and trigger functions. The FX5401 is equipped with a programmable time-out period watchdog timer. You can use your own program to enable the watchdog timer. Once you have enabled the watchdog timer, the program should trigger the I/O every time before the timer times out.

  • Page 45: Watchdog Timer Setting

    FabIATech Corporation Watchdog Timer Setting The watchdog timer is a circuit that may be used from your program software to detect system crashes or hang-ups. LED1 on this CPU board is the watchdog timer indicator, which is located at the upper-left corner above the USB connector.

  • Page 46: Watchdog Timer Enabled

    FabIATech Corporation Watchdog Timer Enabled To enable the watchdog timer, you have to output a byte of timer factor to the watchdog. The following is a Turbo C program, which demonstrates how to enable the watchdog timer and set the time-out period at 6 seconds.

  • Page 47: Watchdog Timer Disabled

    FabIATech Corporation Watchdog Timer Disabled To disable the watchdog timer, simply write a 00H to the watchdog register. #include “stdio.H” #include “WDLIB.H” main( ) InitWD(equWdUnitS); printf (“Disable Watch Dog”); //Disable watch dog DisWD(WD_TIME);...

  • Page 48: Chapter5 Error Coding

    FabIATech Corporation Chapter5 Error Coding This section outlines the errors that may occur when you operate the system, and also gives you the suggestions on solving the problems. Topic include: % Trouble Shooting for Post Beep & Error Messages Trouble Shooting for Post Beep and Error Messages The following information informs the Post Beep &...
  • Page 49 FabIATech Corporation CMOS CHECKSUM ERROR This error informs that the CMOS has corrupted. When the battery runs weak, this situation might happen. Please check the battery and change a new one when necessary. DISK BOOT FAILURE When you can‘t find the boot device, insert a system disk into Drive A and press <...
  • Page 50 FabIATech Corporation MEMORY ADDRESS ERROR When the memory address indicates error. You can use this location along with the memory map for your system to find and replace the bad memory chips. MEMORY SIZE HAS CHANGED Memory has been added or removed since last boot. In EISA mode, use Configuration Utility to re-configure the memory configuration.
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  • Page 52: Appendix

    FabIATech Corporation Appendix Dimension R4.5 R2.3 44.2...

  • Page 53: Technical Reference

    Output DC Voltage: 24V/1.25A Maximal Real-Time Clock and Non-Volatile RAM The FX5401 contains a real-time clock compartment that maintains the date and time in addition to storing configuration information about the computer system. It contains 14 bytes of clock and control registers and 114 bytes of general purpose RAM.
  • Page 54 FabIATech Corporation Address Description Status register D Diagnostic status byte Shutdown status byte Diskette drive type byte, drive A and B Fixed disk type byte, drive C Fixed disk type byte, drive D Reserved Equipment byte Low base memory byte...

  • Page 55: Cmos Ram Map

    FabIATech Corporation CMOS RAM Map Register Description 00h -10h Standard AT-compatible RTC and Status and Status Register data definitions 11h – 13h Varies Equipment Bits Number of Floppy Drives 1 Drive 2 Drives Bits Monitor Type Not CGA or MDA 01 40x25 CGA...

  • Page 56: I/O Port Address Map

    FabIATech Corporation I/O Port Address Map Each peripheral device in the system is assigned a set of I/O port addresses, which also becomes the identity of the device. There is a total of 1K-port address space available. The following table lists the I/O port addresses used on the Industrial CPU Card.

  • Page 57: Interrupt Request Lines (Irq)

    FabIATech Corporation Interrupt Request Lines (IRQ) There are a total of 15 IRQ lines available on the Industrial CPU Card. Peripheral devices use interrupt request lines to notify CPU for the service required. The following table shows the IRQ used by the devices on the Industrial CPU Card.

  • Page 58: Dma Channel Map

    FabIATech Corporation DMA Channel Map The equivalent of two 8237A DMA controllers are implemented in the FX5401 board. Each controller is a four-channel DMA device that will generate the memory addresses and control signals necessary to transfer information directly between a peripheral device and memory.

  • Page 59: Serial Ports

    FabIATech Corporation Serial Ports The ACEs (Asynchronous Communication Elements ACE1 to ACE2) are used to convert parallel data to a serial format on the transmit side and convert serial data to parallel on the receiver side. The serial format, in order of transmission and reception, is a start bit, followed by five to eight data bits, a parity bit (if programmed) and one, one and half (five-bit format only) or two stop bits.
  • Page 60 FabIATech Corporation Bit 1: Enable Transmitter Holding Empty Interrupt (ETBEI) Bit 2: Enable Receiver Line Status Interrupt (ELSI) Bit 3: Enable MODEM Status Interrupt (EDSSI) Bit 4: Must be 0 Bit 5: Must be 0 Bit 6: Must be 0...
  • Page 61 FabIATech Corporation Bit 5: Stick Parity Bit 6: Set Break Bit 7: Divisor Latch Access Bit (DLAB) MODEM Control Register (MCR) Bit 0: Data Terminal Ready (DTR) Bit 1: Request to Send (RTS) Bit 2: Out 1 (OUT 1) Bit 3: Out 2 (OUT 2)
  • Page 62 FabIATech Corporation Bit 4: Clear to Send (CTS) Bit 5: Data Set Ready (DSR) Bit 6: Ring Indicator (RI) Bit 7: Received Line Signal Detect (RSLD) Divisor Latch (LS, MS) Bit 0: Bit 0 Bit 8 Bit 1: Bit 1...

  • Page 63: Parallel Ports

    FabIATech Corporation Parallel Ports Register Address Port Address Read/Write Register Base + 0 Write Output data Base + 0 Read Input data Base + 1 Read Printer status buffer Base + 2 Write Printer control latch Printer Interface Logic The parallel portion of the SMC37C669 makes the attachment of various devices that accept eight bits of parallel data at standard TTL level.
  • Page 64 FabIATech Corporation Bit 7: This signal may become active during data entry, when the printer is off-line during printing, or when the print head is changing position or in an error state. When Bit 7 is active, the printer is busy and cannot accept data.
  • Page 65 FabIATech Corporation Bit 5: Direction control bit. When logic 1, the output buffers in the parallel port are disabled allowing data driven from external sources to be read; when logic 0 they work as a printer port. This bit is write-only.

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