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CPC-2420 2.5” Carrier Board for Mini Biscuit PC User’s Manual...
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Hardware Configuration This chapter gives background informa- tion on the CPC-2420. It shows you how to configure the board to match your application and prepare it for installation into your PC. Sections include: • Introduction • Specifications • Safety precautions •...
1.1 Introduction The CPC-2420 is a carrier board designed with a SODIMM socket for connection to a Mini Biscuit PC. It also has connectors for functions such as VGA, LCD, LAN, FDD, IDE, ISA and a printer port. The CPC-2420 can help users design their own board easier.
1.3 Safety precautions The following sections tell how to make each connection. In most cases, you will simply need to connect a standard cable. All of the connector pin assignments are shown in Appendix A. Warning! Always completely disconnect the power cord from your PC chassis whenever you are working on it.
Table 1-1: LCD 3.3/5 V V select (J6) Function Pins 1-2 Pins 2-3 Closed Open 3.3 V Open Closed 1.4.2 Reset (J3) Connect a wire from a reset button to J3. To "close" J3 will activate a reset. CPC-2420 User's Manual...
7. Pull out the FPC connector. Plug the FPC cable into the FPC connector, and then push in the FPC connector. (see Fig. 1-3). Connect the 40-pin FPC cable to J5 of the CPC-2420, and to the Mini Biscuit PC's FPC connector. The 50-pin FPC cable connects to J4 of the CPC-2420, and to VGA/LCD module's FPC connector.
The following table lists the connectors on the CPC-2420. Table 2-1: Connectors Number Function SODIMM socket FDD/LPT connector VGA connector Ethernet connector IDE connector Power connector Keyboard and PS/2 mouse connector LCD 24-bit connector LCD inverter connector CN10 COM1 RS-232 connector...
2.2 Floppy drive/parallel port connector (CN2) You can attach up to two floppy disk drives to the CPC-2420's onboard connector. You can use any combination of 5.25" (360 KB / 1.2 MB) and/or 3.5" (720 KB / 1.44 / 2.88 MB) drives.
PC's AT power connector. Users can easily purchase AT power supplies in the marketplace. The CPC-2420 comes with a Phoenix connector which carries 5 V DC for external power input. The CPC-2420 can get power either from CN6 or CN15.
CN8 is a 40-pin dual inline header, and is used to connect an LCD display to the CPC-2420. The CPC-2420 has bias control which can be used to control the LCD signal voltage. Pin 7 of CN8 is for LCD contrast adjustments.
CN8 (40-pin) and CN11 (20-pin). The pin assignments for both CN8 and CN11 can be found in Appen- dix A. 2.13 ISA connector (J1/J2) A 16-bit ISA-bus is used to connect the CPC-2420 to a customized I/O expansion card. Chapter 2 Connecting Peripherals...
A.1 Floppy drive/parallel port connector (CN2) Table A-1: Parallel port connector (CN2) Parallel port signal Parallel port signal AUTOFD \STROBE \ACK BUSY INIT SLIN SLCT CPC-2420 User's Manual...
A.3 IDE hard drive connector (CN5) Table A-4: IDE hard drive connector (CN5) Signal Signal IDE RESET* DATA 7 DATA 8 DATA 6 DATA 9 DATA 5 DATA 10 DATA 4 DATA 11 DATA 3 DATA 12 DATA 2 DATA 13 DATA 1 DATA 14 DATA 0...
+5 V +5 V +12 V Note: The model number of CN6 is B5B-PH-K-S (JST Co.) A.5 Keyboard and mouse connector (CN7) Table A-6: Keyboard and mouse connector (CN7) Signal KB DATA MS DATA KB CLOCK MS CLOCK CPC-2420 User's Manual...
A.6 24-bit LCD display connector (CN8) Table A-7: 24-bit LCD display connector (CN8) Signal Signal VDDSAFE5/ VDDSAFE5/ VDDSAFE3 VDDSAFE3 (Note2) VDDSAFE3 VDDSAFE3 Vcon SHIFT CLOCK FILM ENABKL ENAVEE Note 1: The model number of the CN8 socket is DF13A-40DP-1.25V (Hirose Electric Co., Ltd.) Note 2: 3.3 V or 5 V V could be selected by using J6.
A.7 LCD power inverter (CN9) Table A-8: LCD power inverter (CN9) Signal +12 V ENABKL A.8 COM1 RS-232 serial port (CN10) Table A-9: COM1 RS-232 serial port (CN10) Signal CPC-2420 User's Manual...
A.9 36-bit LCD display connector (CN11) Table A-10: 36-bit LCD display connector (CN11) Signal Signal Note: The model number of the CN11 socket is DF13A-20DP-1.25V (Hirose Electric Co., Ltd.) Appendix A Pin Assignments...
A.10 COM2 RS-232 serial port (CN12) Table A-11: COM2 RS-232 serial port (CN12) RS-232 port RS-232 port A.11 Phoenix power connector (CN15) Table A-12: Phoenix power connector (CN15) Signal +5 V CPC-2420 User's Manual...
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