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Octagon XE-900 EPIC CPU Board manual available for free PDF download: Reference Manual
Octagon XE-900 Reference Manual (122 pages)
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Table of Contents
Copyright
2
Disclaimer
2
Technical Support
2
Revision History
3
Using CMOS Circuitry in Industrial Control
4
Avoiding Damage to the Heatsink or CPU
5
Excessive Thermal Stress
5
Table of Contents
6
List of Figures
10
List of Tables
11
Overview: Section 1 - Installation
12
Chapter 1: Overview
13
Description
13
XE-900 SBC Major Hardware Features
13
Cpu
13
Cooling
13
Sdram
13
On-Board Flash
13
Compactflash Socket
13
Hard Disk and IDE Port
14
USB Ports
14
LPT and Floppy
14
Digital I/O
14
Ethernet
14
Serial Ports Protected against ESD
14
PC/104 and PC/104-Plus Interface
14
Video
15
Keyboard, Mouse, and Speaker Ports
15
Real Time Calendar/Clock with Battery Backup
15
Setup Information Stored in Flash for High Reliability
15
User-Available EEPROM
15
Watchdog Timer Added for Safety
15
Hardware Reset
16
Volt Only Operation Lowers System Cost
16
Rugged Environmental Operation
16
Size
16
XE-900 SBC Major Software Features
17
Diagnostic Software Verifies System Integrity Automatically
17
General Software BIOS
17
Octagon BIOS Extensions
17
Boot Sequence
17
Chapter 2: Quick Start
18
Component Diagrams, Connectors, Switches and Cables
18
Figure 2-1 XE-900 SBC Component Diagram (Top)
19
Figure 2-2 XE-900 SBC Component Diagram (Bottom)
20
Figure 2-3 XE-900 SBC Dimensions (Without Integrated Conductive Cooling System)
21
Table 2-1 XE-900 SBC Connector Functions
22
Table 2-2 XE-900 SBC Switch Functions
22
XE-900 SBC Connectors and Jumpers
22
Custom Cables
23
Mounting the XE-900
24
Equipment Required
24
Hardware Mounting
25
Figure 2-4 Power Connector, J8
25
XE-900 SBC Power Supply Requirements
26
Table 2-3 Power Connector: J8
26
Connecting a Monitor and Keyboard
27
Monitor
27
Keyboard and Mouse
27
Figure 2-5 Connecting a Monitor and Keyboard
27
Installing an Operating System
28
OS on CD-ROM Onto a Hard Drive or Compactflash
28
Figure 2-6 Installing an Operating System
30
Chapter 3: Setup Programs
31
Setup
31
System BIOS Utility Menu
32
Information Browser Menu
32
Basic CMOS Configuration Menu
33
Features Configuration Menu
35
Custom Configuration Menu
36
Plug-N-Play Configuration Menu
37
Shadow/Cache Configuration Menu
37
Writing to CMOS and Exiting
39
Overview: Section 2 - Hardware
40
Chapter 4: Serial Ports
41
Description
41
Mating Receptacles
41
Serial Port Configurations
41
Figure 4-1 COM Ports
42
Figure 4-2 VTC-20F Cable and Null Modem Adapter
42
Table 4-1 Serial Port Configurations
43
Table 4-2 COM1 and COM2 Connector Pin-Outs (J13 Connector)
43
Table 4-3 COM3 and COM4 Connector Pin-Outs (J15 Connector)
44
Table 4-4 COM5 RS-232 Connector Pin-Out (J16 Connector)
44
Table 4-5 COM5 and COM6 RS-422/485 Connector Pin-Outs and Pin-Out for 0.100-Inch
44
Function and Use of Serial Ports
45
COM1 as Serial Console Device
45
COM2 through COM5 as RS-232 I/O
45
COM5/6 as TTL Interface
45
Table 4-6 COM5 and COM6 TTL Connector Pin-Out (J12 Connector)
45
Table 4-7 COM5/6 Switches, Switch 4
45
COM5/6 as RS-422 and RS-485 Networks
46
Figure 4-3 Typical RS-422 Four-Wire Interface Circuit
46
Figure 4-4 Typical RS-485 Two-Wire Half Duplex Interface Circuit
47
Chapter 5: Console Devices
48
Description
48
Selecting Console Devices
48
Monitor and Keyboard Console
48
Serial Console
49
Figure 5-1 Monitor and Keyboard as Console
49
Hot Key Access to Serial Console
50
Figure 5-2 the XE-900 SBC and a Serial Console
51
Chapter 6: Compactflash, SDRAM, and Battery Backup
52
Description
52
Compactflash
52
Setup Configurations for Compactflash
52
Creating a Bootable Compactflash
52
Sdram
53
Battery Backup for Real Time Calendar Clock
54
Installing an at Battery
54
Table 6-1 Battery Connector
54
Chapter 7: External Drives
55
Description
55
Setup Configurations for Hard Drives
55
Hard Disk Controller
55
Master/Slave Designation for IDE Devices
55
Figure 7-1 XE-900 SBC with IDE Device
56
Installing a Hard Drive
57
Chapter 8: Bit-Programmable Digital I/O
58
Description
58
Table 8-1 J6 Arranged by Function - Digital I/O Connector
58
Table 8-2 J6 Arranged by Pins - Digital I/O Connector
59
Figure 8-1 Typical Digital I/O Configuration
60
Interfacing to Switches and Other Devices
61
Opto-Module Rack Interface
61
Table 8-3 Digital I/O Opto-Rack Interface
62
Organization of Banks
63
Port Addressing
63
I/O Lines Pulled Low
63
Figure 8-2 Organization of Banks
63
Configuring and Programming the I/O Port
64
Programming the I/O
64
Configuring the I/O
64
Table 8-4 I/O Port Byte
64
Writing and Reading from I/O
65
I/O Output Program Examples
65
I/O Input Program Examples
66
Enhanced INT 17H Function Definitions
66
Initialize I/O
66
Write I/O
67
Read I/O
68
Chapter 9: Crts and LVDS Flat Panels
69
Description
69
Video Features
69
Connecting a Monitor
69
Figure 9-1 the XE-900 SBC and a VGA Monitor
70
Table 9-1 J1 - CRT Connector
70
Connecting an LVDS Flat Panel Display
71
Connecting the LVDS Flat Panel to the XE-900 SBC
71
Table 9-2 LVDS Flat Panel Switch, Switch 3
71
Figure 9-2 the XE-900 SBC and a Flat Panel Display
72
Table 9-3 LVDS Flat Panel Connector: J2
72
Chapter 10: Ethernet
73
Description
73
Table 10-1 Ethernet Leds
73
Chapter 11: PC/104 and PC/104-Plus Expansion
74
Description
74
-12V PC/104-Plus Devices
74
Figure 11-1 Typical PC/104 Module Stack
75
Chapter 12: USB
76
Description
76
Overview: Section 3 - System Management
77
Chapter 13: Watchdog Timer and Hardware Reset
78
Description
78
Booting, Power Down, and Strobing the Watchdog Timer
78
Watchdog Function Definitions Using Enhanced INT 17H Handler
79
Enable Watchdog
79
Strobe Watchdog
80
Disable Watchdog
80
Hardware Reset
81
Chapter 14: Serial EEPROM
82
Description
82
Enhanced INT 17H Function Definitions
82
Serial EEPROM
82
Read a Single Word from the Serial EEPROM
82
Write a Single Word to the Serial EEPROM
83
Read Multiple Words from the Serial EEPROM
83
Write Multiple Words to the Serial EEPROM
84
Return Serial EEPROM Size
85
Chapter 15: System Switches, User Switches, BIOS Update, System Functions, CPU Fan, Integrated Conductive Cooling System (ICCS), Temperature Sensors, Power Management and Leds
86
System Switches
86
System Switch
86
Video Switch
86
Table 15 1 System Configuration Switches, Switch 2
86
User Switches
87
INT17 Calls to Read User Switches
87
BIOS Programming Using REFLASH.EXE
87
INT17 Calls to Read BIOS Version
88
System Functions
88
Return CPU Type
89
CPU Fan
89
Integrated Conductive Cooling System (ICCS)
90
Figure 15-1 Integrated Conductive Cooling System
90
Table 15-2 J9 - CPU Fan Connector
90
Figure 15-2 Dimensions for the Integrated Conductive Cooling System
91
Temperature Sensors
92
Power Management
92
Acpi 2.0
92
PCI Power Management
92
Leds
92
Chapter 16: Troubleshooting
93
No System LED Activity
93
No CRT or Flat Panel Video
93
Video Is Present but Is Distorted
93
No Serial Console Activity
94
Garbled Serial Console Screen Activity
94
System Generates a BIOS Message but Locks up When Booting
95
System will Not Boot from Compactflash
95
System Locks up on Power-Up; May or May Not Respond to Reset Switch
95
System Locks up after Power-Down/Power-Up
95
LED Signaling of "Beep" Counts
95
Table 16-1 POST Port 80 Codes
96
Table 16-2 BIOS Beep Counts
99
Technical Assistance
100
Overview: Section 4 – Appendices
101
Appendix A: XE–900 SBC Technical Data
102
Video
103
Table A-1 XE-900 SBC Mating Connectors
104
Table A-2 XE-900 SBC DMA Map
104
Table A-3 XE-900 SBC I/O Map
105
Table A-4 XE-900 SBC Interrupt Map
106
Table A-5 XE-900 SBC Memory Map
107
Table a 6 System Configuration Switches, Switch 2
107
Switch Settings
107
Table A-7 LVDS Flat Panel Switch, Switch 3
108
Table A-8 COM5/6 Switches, Switch 4
108
Table A-9 J1 - CRT Connector
109
Table A-10 J2 - LVDS Flat Panel Connector
109
Connector Pin–Outs
109
Table A-11 J3 - PC/104-Plus Connector
110
Table A-12 J4 - EIDE
111
Table A-13 PC/104 Connector
112
Table A-14 J6 - Digital I/O Connector
113
Table A-15 J7 - Ethernet Connector
113
Table A-16 J8 - Power Connector
113
Table A-17 J9 - CPU Fan Connector
114
Table A-18 J10 and J11 - COM5 and COM6 RS-422/485 Connector
114
Table A-19 J12 - COM5 and COM6 TTL Connector
114
Table A-20 J13 - COM1 and COM2 Connector
115
Table A-21 J14 - PS/2 Keyboard Mouse
115
Table A-22 J15 - COM3 and COM4 Connector
115
Table A-23 J16 - COM5 RS-232 Connector
116
Table A-24 J17 - Battery Connector
116
Table A-25 J18 - Speaker Connector
116
Table A-26 J19 - USB Connector
116
Table A-27 J500 - Compactflash
117
Appendix B: Software Utilities
118
Xe900I17.Exe
119
Cable
120
Table C-1 Cables and Accessories
120
Table C-2 Digital I/O Accessories
120
Appendix C: Accessories
120
Warranty
121
Returns
122
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