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MEN Mikro Elektronik A11 manual available for free PDF download: User Manual
MEN Mikro Elektronik A11 User Manual (108 pages)
6U VMEbus PowerPC Workstation
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MEN Mikro Elektronik
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Table of Contents
Technical Data
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About this Document
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Table of Contents
10
1 Getting Started
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Map of the Board
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Figure 1. Map of the Board - Front Panel and Top View
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Configuring the Hardware
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Integrating the Board into a System
18
Table 1. Terminal Lines of the 9-Pin Micro D-Sub RS232 Plug Connector
18
Installing Operating System Software
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2 Functional Description
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Power Supply
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Clock Supply
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Powerpc CPU
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General
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Heat Sink
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Table 2. Powerpc Compare Chart
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Bus Structure
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Host-To-PCI Bridge
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Local PCI Bus
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PCI-To-ISA Bridge
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PCI-To-PCI Bridge
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PCI-To-Vmebus Bridge
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Memory
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Level 2 Cache
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Sdram
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Figure 2. SO-DIMM DRAM Installation
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Flash
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Eeprom
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Figure 3. Position of Flash on Bottom Side of A11
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Ethernet Interface
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Connection
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Table 3. Pin Assignment of the 8-Pin RJ45 Ethernet 10Base-T/100Base-T
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Table 4. Signal Mnemonics of the Ethernet 10Base-T/100Base-T Connector
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General
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10Base-5
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10Base-T
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100Base-T
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SCSI Interface
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Connection
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Table 5. Signal Mnemonics for SCSI Interface
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Table 6. Pin Assignment of the 68-Pin VHDCI SCSI Connector
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General
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Table 7. Overview of SCSI Types, Maximum Bus Widths, Throughput and Line
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Lengths
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SCSI Termination on A11
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Figure 4. SCSI Termination on A11
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Table 8. SCSI Termination on A11
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PCI Expansion
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Table 9. Pin Assignment of the 114-Pin PCI Expansion Connector
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PC•MIP Slots
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Installing Pc•Mips
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Figure 5. Installation of a PC•MIP
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PC•MIP Connectors
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Compactflash
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Installing Compactflash
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Supported Compactflash Cards
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Figure 6. Compactflash Card
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Keyboard/Mouse
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Table 10. Pin Assignment of the 6-Pin Mini DIN Keyboard/Mouse Connector
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Table 11. Signal Mnemonics for Keyboard/Mouse Interface
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Serial Ports COM1/COM2
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Connection
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Table 12. Pin Assignment of the 9-Pin Micro D-Sub COM1/COM2 Plug Connectors
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Table 13. Signal Mnemonics for RS232 Serial Ports COM1/COM2
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Asynchronous/Synchronous Serial Ports COM3/COM4
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Figure 7. COM4 Clock Signals - Principle
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Table 14. Configuring Clock Signals for COM4
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Enhanced Parallel Port
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Figure 8. Jumpers for Clock Selection for COM4
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Floppy Disk Controller
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Table 15. Pin Assignment of 26-Pin ZIF Floppy Disk Drive Connector
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Table 16. Signal Mnemonics for Floppy Disk Drive Connector
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Hardware Monitor
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Timekeeper, NVRAM and Watchdog
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Counter/Timer CIO Z8536
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Table 17. Hardware Monitor Channels
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Reset/Abort Buttons and User/Status Leds
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Reset/Abort Buttons
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User/Status Leds
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Figure 9. Reset/Abort Buttons and User Leds
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Table 18. User/Status LED Functions
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User-Defined Hex Switch
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Figure 10. Position of Hex Switch
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Vmebus Interface
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Implementation on the Board
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Figure 11. Vmebus Interrupts
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Connection
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Connector
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Table 19. Pin Assignment of the 5/3-Row, 96/160-Pin Vmebus Connector P1
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Table 20. Pin Assignment of the 5/3-Row, 96/160-Pin Vmebus Connector P2
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Table 21. Signal Mnemonics of Vmebus Rear I/O Connector P2
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Figure 12. Connection of a Rear I/O Adapter (E.g. Men's AD39)
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IEEE 1149.1 (JTAG)/COP Test Interface
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Table 22. Pin Assignment of the 16-Pin IEEE 1149.1 Test Connector
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Configuring the COP Test Interface
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Configuring the IEEE 1149.1 Test Interface
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Figure 13. Connector and Jumper for IEEE 1149.1 Test Interface
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Figure 14. Resistors for COP Test Interface
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3 Menmon
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General
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Console
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A11 MENMON Memory Map
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Figure 15. MENMON - Address Mapping
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MENMON Start-Up
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User Leds
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Boot Sequence
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Configuring the MENMON Start-Up Procedure
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Self Tests
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Figure 16. MENMON - Power on Self Test Output with Self Test Message Mode
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Extended
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MENMON Boot Methods for Client Programs
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MENMON BIOS Devices
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Table 23. MENMON - Assignment for A11 Controller Devices
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Disk Boot
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Figure 17. MENMON - Layout of the 0X41-Type Partition (Prep)
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Figure 18. MENMON - Single Boot-Image CD-ROM Configuration
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Network Boot
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MENMON Tape Boot
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Updating Flash Devices
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Download Via Serial Interface
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Table 24. MENMON - Download Destination Devices
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Performing the Download
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Table 25. MENMON - Flash Sectors for 8MB
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Table 26. MENMON - Flash Sectors for 16MB
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Update from Disk or Network
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MENMON User Interface
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Command Line Editing
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Numerical Arguments
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MENMON Command Overview
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Table 27. MENMON - Command Overview
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Board Setup
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Ali 1543
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PCI Auto-Configuration
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Vmebus
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Table 28. MENMON - Address Map for A11 as a Vmebus Master
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Scsi
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SDRAM DIMM Configuration
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Hex Switch
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Table 29. MENMON - Hex-Switch Settings
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MENMON System Calls
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Invoking System Calls
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System Calls
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Table 30. MENMON - System Calls - BRD_ID Fields
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Table 31. MENMON - System Calls - RTC_RD Buffer Data
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Table 32. MENMON - System Calls - DSK_RD Fields
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Vxworks Bootline
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Table 33. MENMON - Vxworks Bootline - List of Parameters and Their
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Additional MENMON Parameters
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Table 34. MENMON - Common Parameters Passed by All Menmons
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4 Organization of the Board
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Memory Mappings
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Processor View of the Memory Map
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Table 35. Address Map - Processor View
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PCI Configuration Space Map (Primary Bus)
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PCI Configuration Space Map (Secondary Bus)
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Table 36. PCI Configuration Space Map (Primary Bus)
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Table 37. PCI Configuration Space Map (Secondary Bus)
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PCI/ISA I/O Space Memory Map
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Table 38. PCI/ISA I/O Space Memory Map
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Vmebus Memory Map
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Table 39. Possible Vmebus Memory Map
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Interrupt Handling
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Figure 19. A11 Interrupt Structure
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Maskable Interrupts
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Nonmaskable Interrupts
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Table 40. ISA Interrupt Assignments
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Table 41. Steerable Interrupt Assignments
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Table 42. PCI Interrupt Assignments
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Implementation of SYM53C895 SCSI Controller
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Table 43. General-Purpose Pins of SYM53C895 SCSI Controller
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Implementation of M1543 PCI-To-ISA Bridge
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Table 44. M1543 General Purpose Input (GPI) Pin Assignments
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Table 45. M1543 General Purpose Input/Output (GPIO) Pin Assignments
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Table 46. M1543 General Purpose Output Pin Assignments
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Table 47. M1543 GPI Assignment for Hex Switch
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Z8536 Cio
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Table 48. Pin Assignment of the Z8536 Ports
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5 Appendix
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Literature and WWW Resources
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Bridges
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Vmebus
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Pci
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Ethernet
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Scsi
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Parallel Port
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Pc•Mip
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Miscellaneous
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Board Revisions
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Table 49. Table of Hardware Revisions
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Component Plans
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Figure 20. Component Plan of A11 Hardware Revision 03 - Top Side
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Figure 21. Component Plan of A11 Hardware Revision 03 - Bottom Side
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