Jida16 And Jida32; K-Station 1 - Kontron nanoETXexpress-SP User Manual

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JIDA16 and JIDA32

JIDA16 (JUMPtec® Intelligent Device Architecture) is a BIOS interface which allows programs running in Real Mode

operating systems (i.e. MS DOS) to call certain functions implemented in the BIOS. These functions can be used to get

module information, make settings and access the I2C Bus and the Watchdog unit. JIDA16 functions are INT 15h BIOS calls

which are only available in 16 Bit Real Mode operating systems.

For 32bit operating systems (i.e. WindowsXP, Windows 7, Windows CE, VxWorks, Linux) a different JIDA implementation

called JIDA32 is implemented. The same common driver for all JIDA32 capable modules talks to the JIDA32 part in the

BIOS, which is hardware dependent to interact with the hardware.

Please refer to

EMD Customer Section

VxWorks or QNX.

Usage of JIDA16 and JIDA32

4.5

Based on the JIDA32 interface users can implement advanced board functionalities in their application. As an example

utility Kontron provides K-Station for most 32bit Windows Operating Systems. K-Station 1 is a summary of command line

utilities (Shell Tools) for easy access to JIDA32 BIOS implementations. Second part of K-Station is a JAVA based example

GUI which gives a view an all available features using the Shell Tools.

Following K-Station Shell Tools are available:

» KSystemSummary.exe (System Information)

» KGenInfo.exe (Module Information)

» KCPUPerf.exe (CPU Throttling control)

» KHWMon.exe (Hardware Monitoring)

» KI2CBus.exe (I2C and SMBus access)

» KIOPort.exe (GPIO control)

» KStorage.exe (JIDA EEPROM access to user bytes)

» KVGATool.exe (LVDS Backlight control)

» KWDog.exe (Watchdog control)

» KAMIMod.exe (AMICore8 BIOS Modification with Bootlogo or Usercode ...)

» KFlash.exe (AMICore8 BIOS Update)

The full K-Station package, the stand-alone Shell Tools with drivers, example batch files and documentation is available

EMD Customer Section

for free.

for detailed documentation, JIDA utilities and Libraries for DOS, Windows, Linux,

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