Jida32, Eapi And Pld Driver; K-Station 2 - Kontron microETXexpress-DC User Manual

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JIDA32, EAPI and PLD Driver

The Kontron Board Driver for new generation modules is a replacement for former JIDA16/JIDA32 BIOS implementations.

It consists of hardware drivers providing access to features like Watchdog, I2C Bus or GPIO implemented in the onboard

Programmable Logic Device (CPLD). The Board Driver supports the official PICMG embedded API (EAPI) and for backwards

compatibility the former used Kontron JIDA32 API. The driver and API is supported by 32bit and 64bit operating systems.

Please refer to

EMD Customer Section

The Kontron Board Driver featureset is similiar to JIDA32 except:

» CPU Performance setting (manual Throttling)

» I2C Backlight Control only, no PWM support

4.8

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 2 is a summary of command line

utilities (Shell Tools) for easy access to JIDA32 interface provide by the PLD Board Driver. 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)

The full K-Station package and the PLD Board Driver is available on

for detailed documentation and Board Driver downloads.

Usage of Kontron Board Driver

EMD Customer Section

for free.

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