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NOVA-300
Embedded 386SX SBC
@Copyright 1998
All Rights Reserved.
Manual first edition Aug.01,1998
The information in this document is subject to change without prior notice in order
to improve reliability, design and function and does not represent a commitment on
the part of the manufacturer.
In no event will the manufacturer be liable for direct, indirect, special, incidental, or
consequential damages arising out of the use or inability to use the product or
documentation, even if advised of the possibility of such damages.
This document contains proprietary information protected by copyright. All rights
are reserved. No part of this manual may be reproduced by any mechanical,
electronic, or other means in any form without prior written permission of the
manufacturer.
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NOVA-300 is registered trademarks of Acquire Inc., PC/104 is trademarked of
PC/104 Consortium, IBM PC is a registered trademark of International Business
Machines Corporation. Intel is a registered trademark of Intel Corporation. AMI is
registered trademarks of American Megatrends, Inc. Other product names
mentioned herein are used for identification purposes only and may be trademarks
and/or registered trademarks of their respective companies.
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  • Page 1 Trademarks NOVA-300 is registered trademarks of Acquire Inc., PC/104 is trademarked of PC/104 Consortium, IBM PC is a registered trademark of International Business Machines Corporation. Intel is a registered trademark of Intel Corporation. AMI is registered trademarks of American Megatrends, Inc.

  • Page 3: Table Of Contents

    Contents 1. Introduction ............3 2. Installation ............7 3. Connection ............14 4. AMI BIOS Setup..........21 Appendix A. E KEY Function ........ 23 Appendix B. Watch-Dog Timer ......25 Appendix C. Panel Support List ......26...

  • Page 4: Introduction

    Introduction Welcome to the NOVA-300 Embedded 386SX SBC. The NOVA- 300 is an with PC/104 form factor board, which comes equipped with ALI 6117 (includes 386SX CPU) and advanced high- performance multi-mode I/O, designed for the system manufacturers, integrators, or VARs that want to provide all the performance, reliability, and quality at a reasonable price.
  • Page 5 The NOVA-300 Embedded 386SX SBC provides the following specification: ♦ System : • CPU : ALI 6117,includes 386SX CPU • DMA channels : 7 • Interrupt levels : 15 • Real-time clock/calendar : backup by lithium battery for over 10 years of data retention.
  • Page 6 Operating Temperature : 0° ~ 55° C • Humidity : 5% ~ 95%, non-condense • Dimension: 180mm(W) x 122mm(L), standard AT form factor 1.2 What You Have In addition to this User's Manual , the NOVA-300 package includes the following items: • NOVA-300 Embedded 386SX SBC...

  • Page 7: Installation

    Installation This chapter describes how to install the NOVA-300. At first, the layout of NOVA-300 is shown, and the unpacking information that you should be careful is described. The jumpers and switches setting for the NOVA-300's configuration, such as CPU type selection, system clock setting, and interrupt IRQ setting for serial ports and parallel port, are also included.
  • Page 9 2.2 CPU Setting for NOVA-300 • CPU SPEED SETTING :...
  • Page 10 The system clock is generated by the AV9155C-02, and the different CPU clock frequency can be selected by JP3 and shown as following table: 8MHz OPEN CLOSE CLOSE 16Mhz CLOSE OPEN CLOSE 20MHz OPEN OPEN CLOSE 25MHz CLOSE CLOSE OPEN 40MHz CLOSE OPEN...
  • Page 11 JP18 DESCRIPTION RESET WHEN WDT TIME-OUT ACTIVATE NMI TO CPU WHEN WDT TIME-OUT DISABLE WDT OPEN • JP16 : WDT TIME-OUT PERIOD JP16 1sec OPEN OPEN CLOSE OPEN 2sec OPEN OPEN CLOSE CLOSE 10sec OPEN CLOSE OPEN OPEN OPEN CLOSE OPEN CLOSE 20sec...
  • Page 12 operation mode. • JP31 : Clear CMOS Setup (Reserve Function) JP31 DESCRIPTION Normal Operation Clear CMOS Setup 2.7 Serial Port3(CN1) RS232/422/485 Setting The Serial Port3 can be set in RS232 or RS422/ RS485 interface by the Jumper JP20/JP23. If choose RS422/485 then will need the JP21 to set again for RS422 or RS485.
  • Page 13 Function JP24 5V Vpp 12V Vpp 2.9 Serial Port3/Port4 RI Pin Setting The Port3 and Port4 can supply +5V or +12V power to the serial devices via RI pin(Pin 9) of the COM port connector. The max. current is 1A with fuse protection for the total two connector’...

  • Page 14: Connection

    Connection This chapter describes how to connect peripherals, switches and indicators to the NOVA-300 board. You can access most of the connectors from the top of the board while it is installed in the chassis. 3.1 Floppy Disk Drive Connector NOVA-300 board comes equipped with a 34-pin daisy-chain driver connector cable.
  • Page 15 HDD ACTIVE# GROUND 3.3 Parallel Port This port is usually connected to a printer, The NOVA-300 includes an on-board parallel port, accessed through a 26-pin flat-cable connector CN12. The detailed pin assignment of the connector is specified as following table: •...
  • Page 16 Read/Receive 16 byte FIFO serial ports. These ports let you connect to serial devices or a communication network. One DB-9 connector and thee 10-pin headers are provides by the NOVA-300. The detailed pin assignment of the connectors are specified as following tables: •...
  • Page 17 DESCRIPTION RI or 5V/12V 3.5 IrDA Infrared Interface Port The NOVA-300 built-in IrDA port which support Serial Infrared(IR) or Amplitude Shift Keyed IR(ASKIR) interface. When use the IrDA port have to set SIR or ASKIR model in the BIOS’ s Port2 setup. Then the normal RS-232 Port2 will be disabled.
  • Page 18 KEYLOCK GROUND 3.8 External Power Connector The NOVA-300 has an on-board external power connector CN21. The CN21 is compatible to EBX form factor board’ s power connector. The power connector type is Molex 26-60-4080 or equivalent one. The max, rating for each pin is 7A.
  • Page 19 DESCRIPTION Ground Ground +12V Ground -12V 3.9 External Speaker The NOVA-300 has its own buzzer, you also can connect to the external speaker through the connector CN3.: • CN3 : SPEAKER PIN NO. DESCRIPTION SPEAKER SIGNAL 3.10 PC/104 Connection Bus The NOVA-300's PC/104 expansion bus let you attach any kind of PC/104 modules.
  • Page 20 FPVEE SHFCLK ENABLK FPVDD...

  • Page 21: Ami Bios Setup

    AMI BIOS Setup The NOVA-300 use AMI BIOS for system configuration, and the AMI BIOS setup program is designed to provide maximum flexibility in configuring the system by offering various options which may be selected for end-user requirements. This chapter is written to assist you in the proper usage of these features.

  • Page 22: Appendix A. E 2 Key Function

    All the items on the left side of the screen are very common, they will not be mentioned here. Here, we just focus on some special items which are in NOVA-300 board only. These items are specified as following : ¡...
  • Page 23 To easy start to use the function, please refer the include EKEYDEMO.C code at first. Please note the E KEY™ function is based on the working of parallel port. So you should enable the NOVA-300’ s parallel port, otherwise will be not working.

  • Page 24: Appendix B. Watch-Dog Timer

    If you need Windows NT or 95 driver,then please down load the ftp.icpacquire.com.tw driver from server. Appendix B. Watch-Dog Timer The Watch-Dog Timer is provided to ensure that standalone systems can always recover from catastrophic conditions that caused the CPU to crash. This condition may have occurred by external EMI or a software bug.

  • Page 25: Appendix C. Panel Support List

    Dog Timer, otherwise the system will reset. Appendix C. Panel Support List The NOVA-300 supports a wide range flat panels. The different flat panel will need different LCD drive BIOS. The default setting is for Color DSTN flat panel. The available BIOS for different panels are in the following list.
  • Page 26 BIOS,customer only need to re-program the BIOS flash chip with the file,then power on again. MLCD.ROM – BIOS for MONO DSTN 640x480 For example : HOSIDEN HLM6667 HITACHI LMG5160XUFC CASIO MD650TS00-01 OPTREX DMF_50260NFU-FW-8 DSTN.ROM – BIOS for Color DSTN 640x480 For example : SANYO LCM-5331-22NTK SHARP LM64C35P TFT_S1.ROM –...
  • Page 27 2. There also have a utility ( FLASH634.COM ) and directly re- program the BIOS under DOS. For example : C:>FLASH634 MLCD.ROM...