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Packing List Before installation, please ensure the following items have been shipped: 1 POD-6552 A2 SBC 1 Startup manual 1 Utility CD 1 Power Cable 12P/Big 4Px2, 10 cm 1700006196 1 mini jumper pack 9689000002 Ordering information Model Number Description...
Frequency/Voltage Control ............32 3.2.10 Load Optimized Defaults............. 33 3.2.11 Set Password................33 3.2.12 Save & Exit Setup ............... 35 3.2.13 Quit Without Saving ..............35 Chapter S/W Introduction & Installation ..37 S/W Introduction..................38 Driver Installation ................... 38 POD-6552 A2 User Manual...
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A.21 DIMM1: DDR SODIMM Socket............... 70 A.22 PCI1/2: PCI Connector ................70 Appendix B Optional Extras for the POD-6552 ... 71 PCM-10586-6552E Cable kit for POD-6552 A2........72 Appendix C Watchdog Timer........ 73 Watchdog Timer..................74 Appendix D System Assignment......77 System I/O Ports..................
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Appendix E Electrical Specifications ....81 Input Power ..................... 82 E.1.1 Power Supply Selection .............. 82 E.1.2 Power Requirement of Power Supply ......... 82 E.1.3 Rising Time ................. 82 POD-6552 A2 User Manual...
Supports up to 266 MHz DDR SODIMM Supports six USB 2.0 ports Product Specifications POD-6552 A2 is reversion from A1. For system I/O ports, PCM-6552 A2 add Super IO runtime register and change COM2 address from 2F8 ~ 2FF to 2E0~2E7. The list is as follow.
North Bridge Controller Hub Intel® 852GM chipset 400MHz for 852GM Display VGA port (1600 x 1200 @ 24bpp 85Hz) 18-bit TTL TV-OUT LVDS (18/36 bit) Memory 200/266 MHz (No ECC) 200 Pin SODIMM SOCKET(Up to 1GB) POD-6552 A2 User Manual...
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6 USB 2.0 ports, 480 MB/s 2 Ultra ATA (100/66/33 MB/s),Independent timing of up to 4 drives Power Management, ACPI 2.0 compliant FWH interface to Flash BIOS Supports AC’97 2.3 00 Mbit/sec Ethernet support IEEE 802.3 compliant 10/1 POD-6552 A2 User Manual...
203 mm (L) * 146 mm (W) (8" x 5.75") 1.3.2.2 Height on Top (mm) On board type: 30.5 mm (CPU Heatsink) Socket type: 30.2 mm (D-SUB COM) 1.3.2.3 Height on Bottom (mm) 5.3 mm (SO-DIMM) POD-6552 A2 User Manual...
Chapter H/W Installation This chapter explains the setup procedures of the POD-6552 hardware, including instructions on setting jumpers and connect- ing peripherals, switches, indica- tors and mechanical drawings. Be sure to read all safety precau- tions before you begin the instal- lation procedure.
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PIN HEADER 2*1P 180D (M) SQUARE 2.0 mm DIP W/O Pb Setting Function (1-2) Clear CMOS AT / ATX Select Part Number 1653003101 Footprint JH3X1V-2M Description PIN HEADER 3*1P 180D (M) 2.0 mm DIP SQUARE WO/Pb Setting Function (1-2) ATX Power (2-3) AT Power POD-6552 A2 User Manual...
Warning! To avoid damaging the computer, always turn off the power supply before setting jumpers to clear CMOS. Before turning on the power sup- ply, set the jumper back to 3.0 V Battery On. POD-6552 A2 User Manual...
The board provides up to 6* USB (Universal Serial Bus) ports. This gives complete Plug and Play, and hot attach/detach for up to 127 external devices. The USB inter- faces comply with USB specification Rev. 2.0 which supports 480Mbps transfer rate, and are fuse protected. POD-6552 A2 User Manual...
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CN17 is a 40-pin connector for TTL LCD or DSTN. It could connect TTL LCD or DSTN freely to meet your need. 2.2.2.11 PC-104 connector (CN18) POD-6552 supports a PC-104 connector. It is intended for industrial embedded com- puting environments where applications depend on reliable data acquisition. POD-6552 A2 User Manual...
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26-pin flat-cable. The parallel port is designated as LPT1, and can be disabled or changed to LPT2 or LPT3 in the system BIOS setup. The parallel port interrupt channel is designated to be IRQ7. You can select ECP/EPP DMA channel via BIOS setup. POD-6552 A2 User Manual...
CPUs from 386 through Pentium, AMD Geode, K7 and K8 (including multiple proces- sor platforms), and VIA Eden C3 and C7 CPUs. You can use Advantech’s utilities to select and install features that suit your needs and your customers’ needs.
This selection loads optimized values for best system performance configura- tion. Set Password Establish, change or disable passwords. Save & Exit Setup Save CMOS value settings to CMOS and exit BIOS setup. Exit Without Saving Abandon all CMOS value changes and exit BIOS setup. POD-6552 A2 User Manual...
The system boot process will not stop for a diskette error, but will stop for all other errors. All, But Disk/Key The system boot process will not stop for a keyboard or disk error, but will stop for all other errors. POD-6552 A2 User Manual...
USB-CDROM Sets boot priority for USB-CDROM. Sets boot priority for LAN. Disabled Disables this boot function. Swap Floppy Drive [Disabled] This item enables users to swap floppy “A” and “B” identified without change hardware cable connection. POD-6552 A2 User Manual...
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This item sets the operating system multiprocessor support version. OS Select For DRAM > 64 MB [Non-OS2] Select OS2 only if the system is running the OS/2 operating system with greater than 64 MB of RAM on the system. POD-6552 A2 User Manual...
This item allows the system BIOS to be cached to allow faster execution and better performance. Video BIOS Cacheable [Disabled] This item allows the video BIOS to be cached to allow faster execution and bet- ter performance. POD-6552 A2 User Manual...
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This item allows the user to adjust the memory buffer for on-chip graphics. Boot Display [VBIOS Default] This item allows the user to decide which display mode to use for the boot dis- play. Panel Type [640 x 480] This item allows the user to adjust panel resolution. POD-6552 A2 User Manual...
This item enables users to set the Super IO device status, including Floppy, COM, LPT, IR and to control GPIO and Power fail status. Onboard Serial port 1 [3F8] This item allows the user to adjust serial port 1 address. POD-6552 A2 User Manual...
ACPI Function [Enabled] This item defines the ACPI (Advanced Configuration and Power Management) feature that makes hardware status information available to the operating sys- tem, and communicates to PC and system devices for improved power man- agement. POD-6552 A2 User Manual...
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This item allows the user to enable and define how LAN wake the system up from suspend mode. Power On by Ring [Enabled] This item allows the user to enable and define how the system will resume by activation of the modem ring. POD-6552 A2 User Manual...
This item allows you respectively assign an interrupt type for DMA-0, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, and 7. PCI VGA Palette Snoop [Disabled] The item is designed to solve problems caused by some non-standard VGA cards. A built-in VGA system does not need this function. POD-6552 A2 User Manual...
This item displays current CPU/System temperature. FAN 1 / FAN2 Speed [Show Only] This item displays current system FAN(s) speed(s). 3.3 V/ 1.05 V/2.5 V/ 5 V/ 12 V [Show Only] This item displays current CPU and system voltage. POD-6552 A2 User Manual...
Spread Spectrum [Disabled] This item enables users to set the spread spectrum modulation. CPU Host/SRC/PCI Clock [Default] This item enables users to set the CPU Host and PCI clock by system auto- matic detection or by manual POD-6552 A2 User Manual...
Setup, depending on which aspects you want password protected. Sys- tem requires a password both to boot the system and to enter Setup. Setup requires a password only to enter Setup. A password may be at most 8 characters long. POD-6552 A2 User Manual...
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Select Set Password again, and at the Enter Password prompt, DO NOT enter anything - just press <Enter>. At the Confirm Password prompt, again, DO NOT type in anything - just press <Enter>. Select Save to CMOS and exit, type <Y>, then <Enter>. POD-6552 A2 User Manual...
CMOS. Typing <N> will return to BIOS Setup. 3.2.13 Quit Without Saving Note! Typing <Y> will quit the BIOS Setup Utility without saving any changes to CMOS. Typing <N> will return to the BIOS Setup Utility. POD-6552 A2 User Manual...
S/W Introduction The mission of Advantech Embedded Software Services is to "Enhance quality of life with Advantech platforms and Microsoft Windows® embedded technology." We enable Windows® Embedded software products on Advantech platforms to more effectively support the embedded computing community. Customers are freed from the hassle of dealing with multiple vendors (Hardware suppliers, System integrators, Embedded OS distributor) for projects.
SUSI provides a consistent programming interface for different Advantech boards. That means user programs using SUSI are portable among different Advantech boards as long as the boards and SUSI provide the required functionalities. Overall product development times can be greatly reduced using SUSI.
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Windows CE In windows CE, there are three ways to install the SUSI Library, you can install it manually or use Advantech CE-Builder to install the library or just copy the programs and the library onto a compact flash card.
Visual C++ 6.0 on Windows XP or under Microsoft Embedded Visual C++ 4.0 on Windows CE. Developers must add the header file Susi.h and library Susi.lib to their own projects when they want to develop something with SUSI. POD-6552 A2 User Manual...
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For a complete support list, please refer to Appendix A. We describe the steps to test all functions of this application. POD-6552 A2 User Manual...
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Key in the pin numbers you want to write. Pin numbers start from '0'. – Key in the value either '0' or '1' in (R/W) Result field to write the output pin you chose above step. – Click the WRITE GPIO DATA button to write the GPIO output pin. POD-6552 A2 User Manual...
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Key in the register offset in Register Offset field. – Key in the desirous of data in Result field to write to the device. – Click the WRITE A BYTE button and then the data will be written to the device through I POD-6552 A2 User Manual...
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Key in the slave device address in the Slave address field. – Key in the register offset in the Register Offset field. – Click the READ SMBus DATA button and then a word of data from the device will be shown on the Result field. POD-6552 A2 User Manual...
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Key in all the desired data in the Result field in hexadecimal format, divided by commas, for example, 0x50,0x60,0x7A. – Click the WRITE SMBus DATA button and all of the data will be written to the device through the SMBus. POD-6552 A2 User Manual...
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Move the slider in increments, using either the mouse or the direction keys, or click the UP button to increase the brightness. – Move the slider in decrements, using either the mouse or the direction keys, or click the DOWN button to decrease the brightness. POD-6552 A2 User Manual...
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Before the timer counts down to zero, you can reset the timer by clicking the REFRESH button. After you click this button, the Timeout Countdown field will display the value of the SET TIMEOUT field. If you want to stop the watchdog timer, you just click the STOP button. POD-6552 A2 User Manual...
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When the Monitor application is executed by clicking the button, hardware monitoring data values will be displayed. If certain data values are not supported by the platform, the correspondent data field will be grayed-out with a value of 0. POD-6552 A2 User Manual...
PCI Riser Card PCI Card Aim the pin to the footprint and apply force evenly Backplane After apply force to the PCI card, the footprint of PCI card need to be inserted correctly. POD-6552 A2 User Manual...
CN2: COM port 1/2 D-Sub Connector COM port 1/2 Connector Part Number 1654409101 Footprint DB9D-VM7MX2 Description D-SUB Conn. 18P DUAL PORT 90D(M) DIP RS232 RS232 RS422 RS485 TXD- DATA- SINA SINA TXD+ DATA+ SOUT SOUT RXD+ RXD- POD-6552 A2 User Manual...
CN7: VGA Connecter VAG Connector Part Number 1653208260 Footprint BH8X2SV Description Box HEADER 8*2P 180D (M) 2.00 mm Pin Name Signal Type Signal Level DAC_L_R VCC_5V_CRT DAC_L_G DAC_L_B CRTDDC_L_D DAC_L_HSYNC DAC_L_VSYNC CRTDDC_L_C VGA_ALW POD-6552 A2 User Manual...
BOX HEADER 8*2P 180D (M) 2.00 mm Pin Name Signal Type Signal Level Speaker Out R+ Speaker Out R- Speaker Out L+ Speaker Out L- HPOUTR HPOUTL AGND AGND Line In Right Line In Left AGND AGND MIC2 In MIC1 In AGND POD-6552 A2 User Manual...
VCC_5V_SIR IRRX IRTX CN11: USB4/5 Connector CN11 USB4/5 Connector Part Number 1653205261 Footprint HD_5x2P_79_BOX_N10 Description PIN HEADER 5x2P 180D (M) 2.0 mm SMD IDIOT-PROOF Pin Name Signal Type Signal Level VCC5_USB45 VCC5_USB45 C_USB_PN4 C_USB_PN5 C_USB_PP4 C_USB_PP5 POD-6552 A2 User Manual...
Signal Type Signal Level VCC5_USB23 VCC5_USB23 C_USB_PN2 C_USB_PN3 C_USB_PP2 C_USB_PP3 CN13: PS2 Connecter CN13 PS2 Connecter Part Number 1655306020 Footprint WHL6V-2M Description WAFER BOX 2.0 mm 6P 180D (M) W/LOCK Pin Name Signal Type Signal Level KBVCC POD-6552 A2 User Manual...
+3.3V VCC_5V_L A.11 CN16: CD in Connecter CN16 CD In Connecter Part Number 1655304020 Footprint WF_4P_79_BOX_R1_D Description WAFER BOX 2.0 mm 4P 180D (M) W/LOCK A2001WV2-4P Pin Name Signal Type Signal Level CD_R CDGND CDGND CD_L POD-6552 A2 User Manual...
Signal Level +5VSB PSON# +3.3V +12V +12V A.14 CN21: -V5 and -V12 Connecter CN21 -5V&-12V Connecter Part Number 1655303020 Footprint WHL3V-2M Description WAFER BOX 2.0mm 3P 180D w/LOCK Pin Name Signal Type Signal Level VCC5N V12N -12V POD-6552 A2 User Manual...
HDD LED and POWER LED Part Number 1653007260 Footprint BH7X2SV Description PIN HEADER SMD 2*7P 180D (M) P=2.0 mm Pin Name Signal Type Signal Level HDLEDA# HDD_LEDC# LED_POWER SUSLED LEDP_ACT 3.3V ACTLED LEDP_LNK 3.3V LINKLED FP_PSIN 3.3V MASTER_RESET# POD-6552 A2 User Manual...
Signal Type Signal Level FAN_DET VCC_FAN A.18 CN24/25: IDE Connecter CN24/25 IDE Connecter Part Number 1653222262 Footprint BH22X2SV Description BOX HEADER SMD 22*2P 180D (M) 2.00 mm IDIOT-PROOF Pin Name Signal Type Signal Level RESET# +3.3V DD10 POD-6552 A2 User Manual...
The POD-6552 requires several cables for normal operation. You can make them yourself or purchase an optional cable kit assembly, which includes the following. PCM-10586-6552E Cable kit for POD-6552 A2 POD-6552 Part No. Cable Description Terminating Connector Connector 1700000101 USB Cable CN11, 12 10P 2.0 mm/USB 60 cm...
B0000h-B7FFFH Unused A0000h-AFFFFh EGA/VGA graphics 00000h-9FFFFh Base memory DMA channel assignments Table D.3: DMA channel assignments Channel Function Available Available (audio) Floppy disk (8-bit transfer) Available (parallel port) Cascade for DMA controller 1 Available Available Available POD-6552 A2 User Manual...
= CPU board + peripheral (USB) + system device (IDE, SATA HD) + add on card. E.1.3 Rising Time ATX: Power Rising Time (T=0.1 mS ~ 20 mS) AT: Power Rising Time (T=5 mS ~ 15 mS) POD-6552 A2 User Manual...
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