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  • Page 4 Pentium PC/AT Compatible VMEbus Single Board Computer T echnical Manual Copyright © 2002 by SBS Technologies Inc. Artisan Technology Group - Quality Instrumentation ... Guaranteed | (888) 88-SOURCE | www.artisantg.com...
  • Page 5 Text in Courier Font indicates a command entry or output from an SBS embedded PC product using its built-in character set. This manual is designed to provide information regarding the general use and application of the V5C Embedded PC, as well as detail the hardware design. Some software programming information is also provided in Chapters 6 and 7 of this manual.

  • Page 6: Table Of Contents

    Included Items Minimum System Requirements Initial Power-On Operation Chapter 3: Installation and Interfacing Chapter Scope Installing the V5C Installation Requirements Interfacing the V5C to External Devices Keyboard/Mouse Interface Serial Ports Extended COM-2 Functionality Parallel Port Video Interface Ethernet Interface USB Ports...
  • Page 7 Tables Table 2-1: Included Items Table 3-1: VME P1 Power Pins Table 3-2: VME P2 Power Pins Table 3-3: V5C P1 Signals Table 3-4: V5C P2 Signals Table 3-5: Keyboard/Mouse Interface Signals Table 3-6: COM-1 and COM-2 (RS-232) Pin Assignments...
  • Page 8 Figures Figure 2-1: System BIOS Banner Figure 3-1: Keyboard/Mouse Interface Figure 3-2: COM Port Figure 3-3: Parallel Port Figure 5-1: V5C Memory Map Figure 5-2: V5C I/O Map Figure 5-3: V5C Block Diagram Appendix A: VME Address Modifier Codes Contents...
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  • Page 10: Chapter 1: Introduction

    V5C PC99 functionality. Intel Pentium III Microprocessors The V5C is available from the factory with an Intel Pentium III or Celeron processor at a variety of speeds. Celeron processors of 450MHz and up, and Pentium III processors of 450MHz and up (as available) are currently supported.
  • Page 11 Compatible ROM BIOS The V5C uses a ROM BIOS produced by AWARD to ensure that the BIOS is compatible with PC99 and existing Pentium systems without infringing on copyrights. The BIOS provides low-level machine dependent software functions, relieving the operating system from dealing with hardware directly. A substantial number of software programs use BIOS calls rather than Operating System calls, so it is important to have a BIOS that works exactly like the original PC99 compatible BIOS.

  • Page 12: Vmebus Vme64 Compatibility Features

    PCI Expansion The V5C provides a primary bus PCI connect to the SBS Embedded Computers TPMCC carrier. Since the V5C does not contain a PCI Bridge, a 21150 PCI Bridge is included on the TPMCC for using PCI Mezzanine Cards (PMC).
  • Page 13 VMEbus Master or Slave operation. This is especially important if the V5C is going to be the only CPU card in the VMEbus system. Also, the V5C can automatically detect if it is in the VME slot one and turn on the System Controller function.

  • Page 14: Chapter 2: Unpacking, Inspection, And Initial Operation

    When unpacking the board, and whenever handling it thereafter, be sure to hold the V5C by the front panel or the card ejectors as shown in the drawing on the left. Do not hold the V5C by the circuit card edges, the heat sink, or the VMEbus connectors.

  • Page 15: Unpacking And Handling

    Although the V5C is carefully packaged against the rigors of shipping, it is still Unpacking and Handling possible that shipping damage can occur. Careful inspection of the shipping carton should reveal some information about how the package was handled by the shipping service.

  • Page 16: Minimum System Requirements

    As shipped, the V5C has been thoroughly tested and burned-in, and is nearly Minimum System ready for use in your VMEbus system. In order to verify V5C operation for the Requirements first time, it is suggested that you only configure a minimal system. It is not necessary to have disk drives or other accessories connected in order to perform the V5C confidence tests.

  • Page 17: Initial Power-On Operation

    VMEbus supply. When the board is completely reset, the processor should begin executing initial BIOS-resident routines. After a few seconds, the V5C System BIOS banner will be displayed similar to Initial Power-On Operation that shown in Figure 2-1.

  • Page 18: Chapter Scope

    SBS Embedded Computers Technical Support before installing your V5C. VMEbus Power Requirements Power is supplied to the V5C via the VMEbus P1 connector as shown in Table 3-1 below. Signal Location on VMEbus P1...
  • Page 19 8. WARNING: The P2 connector of the V5C has the a and c rows defined by SBS as the VMEbus specification permits. However, other boards on the VMEbus may also define these rows. Damage can result to the V5C or other boards if the P2 a,c,d and z row signals are bussed between boards which are not compatible.

  • Page 20: Table 3-3 V5C P1 Signals

    These signals are associated with bus acquisition and interrupt acknowledgement. Before plugging the V5C into the P1 backplane, you should make sure that the backplane slot is configured appropriately for these signals.
  • Page 21 At the slot in which a V5C is installed none of the bus grant signals should be jumpered. Most VMEbus P1 backplanes provide an easy method of jumpering the bus grant signals at each card slot position.

  • Page 22: Interfacing The V5C To External Devices

    VME card. These components generate a lot of heat. To prevent damage to the board and to ensure reliable operation, the V5C MUST be cooled with forced air. A 100LFM fan is recommended, with ambient remaining below 55°C.

  • Page 23: Keyboard/Mouse Interface

    A keyboard alone will work plugged into the keyboard/mouse connector, but a mouse alone will not function. The mouse operation requires a mini-DIN “Y” adapter, supplied with the V5C. The bottom part of the “Y” connects to the V5C keyboard/mouse port with two sections splitting to form a separate keyboard and mouse connecting point.

  • Page 24: Serial Ports

    In RS-422 or RS-485 mode it may be necessary to provide termination at the V5C if it is at either end of a multidrop link. For RS-485 this is be done automatically by the V5C. For RS-422, terminating resistors must be installed in the external connector shield.

  • Page 25: Parallel Port

    — No connection Table 3-8 COM-2 RS-485 Half-Duplex Mode Pin Assignments The parallel port on the V5C is accessible through a 25 pin male micro-miniature Parallel Port D-type connector, which appears just below the keyboard port on the V5C front panel.

  • Page 26: Video Interface

    VGA and SVGA CRTs. Maximum screen resolution is 1600 x 1200. The stan- dard 15-pin VGA connector is provided through the front panel. The V5C contains Dual high performance Intel 82559 Ethernet controllers, and Ethernet Interface comes standard with dual Twisted Pair (10/100BaseT) interfaces and two RJ45 connectors through the front panel.

  • Page 27: Usb Ports

    For example the host reclaims the bandwidth, and if the device was bus-pow- ered, it reclaims the power and makes it available to other devices. The V5C has two USB Ports, designated USB0 and USB1. USB0 is a standard USB connector located on the V5C front panel. USB1 is incorporated into the P2 expansion.

  • Page 28: Chapter 4: Booting And Operation

    Booting and Operation C H A P T E R 4 Chapter Scope This chapter describes the Award Software BIOS Setup program. The Setup program allows you to modify basic system configuration settings. The settings are stored in a dedicated battery-backed memory, called CMOS RAM, that retains the information when the power is turned off.

  • Page 29: Setup Key Commands

    IDE HDD AUTO DETECTION EXIT WITHOUT SAVING ←↑→↓ Move Quit Select Item Save & Exit Setup (Shift) F2 Change Color Description of Selected Function above V5C Technical Manual Artisan Technology Group - Quality Instrumentation ... Guaranteed | (888) 88-SOURCE | www.artisantg.com...

  • Page 30: Standard Cmos Setup

    Standard CMOS Options in the original PC99 compatible BIOS. BIOS Features Award Software enhanced BIOS features. Chipset Features AT Clock, DRAM Timings, etc. Power Management Sleep Timer, Suspend Timer, Etc. PNP/PCI Configuration Local bus configuration options. Integrated Peripherals Settings for HDD, controllers, serial ports and other peripheral devices.
  • Page 31 Memory You cannot change any values in the Memory fields. They are there for information only. V5C Technical Manual Artisan Technology Group - Quality Instrumentation ... Guaranteed | (888) 88-SOURCE | www.artisantg.com...

  • Page 32: Bios Features Setup

    BIOS Features Setup ROM PCI/ISA BIOS (2A6KLU80) BIOS FEATURES SETUP AWARD SOFTWARE, INC. CPU Internal Cache : Enabled Video BIOS Shadow Enabled External Cache : Enabled C8000-CBFFF Shadow Disabled CC000-CFFFF Shadow Disabled Quick Power On Self Test : Disabled D0000-D3FFF Shadow Disabled Boot Sequence : A,C,SCSI...
  • Page 33 If an expansion peripheral in your system contains ROM-based firmware, you need to know the address range the ROM occupies in order to shadow it correcly into RAM. V5C Technical Manual Artisan Technology Group - Quality Instrumentation ... Guaranteed | (888) 88-SOURCE | www.artisantg.com...

  • Page 34: Pnp/Pci Configuration

    PnP/PCI Configuration ROM PCI/ISA BIOS (2A6KLU80) PNP/PCI CONFIGURATION AWARD SOFTWARE, INC. PNP OS Installed : No PCI IRQ Activated By : Level Resources Controlled By : Auto Slot 1 Use IRQ No. : Auto Reset Configuration Data : Disabled Slot 2 Use IRQ No. : Auto Slot 3 Use IRQ No.

  • Page 35: Integrated Peripherals

    On-Chip IDE The integrated peripheral controller contains an IDE Controller interface with support for two IDE channels. Select ENABLED to activate the IDE interface. V5C Technical Manual Artisan Technology Group - Quality Instrumentation ... Guaranteed | (888) 88-SOURCE | www.artisantg.com...
  • Page 36 IDE HDD Block Block mode is also called block transfer, multiple com- Mode mands, or multiple sector read/write. If your IDE drive supports block mode (most new drives do), select ENABLED for automatic detection of the optimal num- ber of block read/writes per sector the drive can support. Onboard FDC Select ENABLED if your system has a floppy disk con- Controller...
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  • Page 38: Chapter 5: Board Resources

    V5C Options Processor Type & Speed The V5C is designed to accommodate socket 370 processors ( Pentium III or Celeron ) at a variety of speeds. It can operate with a Celeron 450/66 and above, or a Pentium III/100 and above, according to market availability.

  • Page 39: Front Panel Leds

    These LEDs are, from top to bottom: SCON This LED is ON when the V5C is configured as the System Con- troller in a VMEbus system. This is an important indicator as it allows you to more easily verify that you have only one System Controller on the VMEbus.
  • Page 40 V5C Circuit Board, Top View Pin 1 → Compact Flash Disk Parallel Kbd/ Ethernet Ethernet Video COM 1 COM 2 Port Mouse V5C Circuit Board, Bottom View Board Resources Artisan Technology Group - Quality Instrumentation ... Guaranteed | (888) 88-SOURCE | www.artisantg.com...

  • Page 41: Pc Interrupts

    Table 5-2 DMA Channel Allocation * These devices can be disabled to free the occupied DMA channel. The V5C has several non-AT registers such as Reset Control Register and the V5C Registers Serial EEPROM which allow complete control of the hardware by software.

  • Page 42: Figure 5-1 V5C Memory Map

    Figure 5-1 V5C Memory Map Figure 5-2 V5C Legacy I/O Map Note that Local DRAM entries are dependent on the amount of DRAM installed. Also, some devices such as Floppy can be disabled, freeing space in the I/O map. Board Resources...

  • Page 43: Figure 5-3 V5C Block Diagram

    BIOS Flash CPLD OverTemp Alert 32 kByte NVSRAM +5, 3.3, 2.5V Pwr. Mon. From Reset Debounce Front Panel Switch Figure 5-3 V5C Block Diagram V5C Technical Manual Artisan Technology Group - Quality Instrumentation ... Guaranteed | (888) 88-SOURCE | www.artisantg.com...

  • Page 44: Chapter 6: Pc/At Devices Programming

    PC/AT Devices C H A P T E R 6 Programming This chapter describes programming the PC/AT devices of the V5C. The basic Chapter Scope peripherals such as the serial ports, the parallel port, and the keyboard port are covered generally, as are the more advanced controllers for the video, floppy disk, and hard disk interfaces.

  • Page 45: Serial Communications Interface

    BIOS services are fully described in Section 3 of Advanced MS-DOS. Also, be aware that the parallel port of the V5C is capable of SPP, ECP and EPP modes. The ALI 1543C Southbridge has built-in PS2/AT Keyboard and PS2 Mouse Keyboard/Mouse Port Controllers.

  • Page 46: Non-Volatile Ram

    70H. The valid index address range is 0-7FH. The first 40H locations are used by the V5C, while the remaining 40H are available for general use. The register or RAM data can then either be written or read at I/O port address 71H. The specific use of clock registers is covered in the data sheet on the Motorola 146818A.

  • Page 47: Bios Control Register

    Bit 0: Eight bit SCSI bus termination. 1 = On, 0 = Off. For system operation with the V5C as the first device in the SCSI chain this bit must be set to On. Bit 1: This bit controls the selection of the COM2 serial port mode. 0 = RS-232 and 1 = RS-485.

  • Page 48: User Register

    Bit 5: Reserved Bit 6: Reserved Bit 7: Setting this bit illuminates the SYS LED on the V5C front panel. The purpose is user-defined. Reading this bit returns the opposite of the value written. The Serial EEPROM Register provides a direct interface to the program, data,...

  • Page 49: Serial Eeprom

    The V5C uses a 64x16 bit serially-accessed Electrically Erasable Programmable Serial EEPROM Read Only Memory, or EPROM. This part is the National Semiconductor NM93C46, and is used for storing board setup and configuration data for SETV5C and the VME BIOS. Programming the EEPROM is facilitated through the Serial EPROM Register (see Serial EPROM Register above).

  • Page 50: Pld Revision Register

    PLD Revision PLD Revision Register Implementation (Limit of 256 Revisions). Register PLD7 PLD6 PLD5 PLD4 PLD3 PLD2 PLD1 PLD0 Figure 6-7 PLD Revision Register (I/O 2A6H) Bit 0: Hex bit 0 (Read Only). Bit 1: Hex bit 1 (Read Only). Bit 2: Hex bit 2 (Read Only).

  • Page 51: Intel Dual Hiqvideo Accelerator Engine

    10H. These are fully defined in Section 3 of Advanced MS-DOS. However, if it becomes necessary to program the controller directly, refer to the Intel Corporation 69030 Databook. V5C Technical Manual Artisan Technology Group - Quality Instrumentation ... Guaranteed | (888) 88-SOURCE | www.artisantg.com...

  • Page 52: Chapter 7: Byte Swapping

    Byte Swapping Byte Swapping Modes The V5C has Byte Swapping implemented in hardware. This allows for proper data transfer between the PCI and VME busses. The hardware implementation is much faster than a software implementation since no extra processor time is devoted to this task.

  • Page 53: Mode I16

    If bits 0-3 are modified, the new mode is not in effect until the VMEbus is inactive. Bit 4 of the byte swapping register is read-only and indicates when the mode specified by by bits 0-3 is in effect. V5C Technical Manual Artisan Technology Group - Quality Instrumentation ... Guaranteed | (888) 88-SOURCE | www.artisantg.com...

  • Page 54: Chapter 8: Specifications

    Specifications C H A P T E R 8 General Model Description PC99 Design Guide Compatible VMEbus Single Board Computer Hardware Compatibility VMEbus Dual Eurocard, VME64 ANSI/VITA 1-1994 VMEbus Controller Tundra Universe IIB Configuration DTB Master, Option A32/A24/A16, D32/D16/D08(EO), RMW DTB Slave, Option A32/A24/A16, D32/D16/D08(EO), RMW Interrupter Programmable, 1-of-7...
  • Page 55 -40 to 85° Celsius, Non-Operating Cooling Forced Air, 100LFM Fan Recommended Humidity 10 to 95% Relative Humidity, Non-Condensing Shock 6G Max. Operating, 10G Max. Non-Operating V5C Technical Manual Artisan Technology Group - Quality Instrumentation ... Guaranteed | (888) 88-SOURCE | www.artisantg.com...

  • Page 56: Chapter 9: Support, Service, And Warranty

    Support, Service, and C H A P T E R 9 Warranty The following sections describe SBS Technologies product support program. It Chapter Scope states our product warranty terms and provides details about what action to take if you experience a problem with the product.

  • Page 57: Product Repairs

    Depending on the circumstances of the problem, it may be deemed necessary to return the product to SBS Technologies for repair. In order to return the product for repair, the following steps are necessary: 1. Obtain a Return Material Authorization number (RMA#) from SBS Cus- tomer Support.
  • Page 58 Non-warranty repairs generally require that a purchase order be issued to SBS Technologies Inc. for the amount of the repair before repairs are undertaken. Support, Service, and Warranty...
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  • Page 60: Appendix A: Vme Address Modifier Codes

    VME Address Modifier A P P E N D I X Codes The following table shows the standard VME address modifier codes. Codes 10H through 1FH are user-defined. All other codes are reserved. Address Modifier Address Size Transfer Type Standard Supervisory Block Transfer (BLT) Standard Supervisory Program Access Standard Supervisory Data Access Standard Non-Privileged Block Transfer (BLT)
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  • Page 62 Artisan Technology Group is your source for quality new and certified-used/pre-owned equipment SERVICE CENTER REPAIRS WE BUY USED EQUIPMENT • FAST SHIPPING AND DELIVERY Experienced engineers and technicians on staff Sell your excess, underutilized, and idle used equipment at our full-service, in-house repair center We also offer credit for buy-backs and trade-ins •...

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