Eurotech CPU-1440 Owner's manual

Rev. 2.0 – Mars 2011 - ETH_CPU-1440_USM

USER MANUAL

CPU-1440

PC/104+ Module with Vortex86DX processor

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Revision history

Issue no.

PCB

Date

Comments

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th

March 2011

For contact details, see page 31.

Contents

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Contents

Handling your board safely.......................................................................................................................4

Conventions..............................................................................................................................................4

Product Overview .....................................................................................................................................5

Software specification...............................................................................................................................7

Operating system support...........................................................................................................7

Drivers .........................................................................................................................................7

BIOS............................................................................................................................................7

Getting started with your board ................................................................................................................8

Connecting a flash or hard disk drive .........................................................................................8

Connecting a PS/2 keyboard and mouse ...................................................................................8

Using the battery .........................................................................................................................8

Using the serial interfaces...........................................................................................................9

Using the parallel port interface ..................................................................................................9

Using the LVDS flat panel interface ............................................................................................9

Using the TFT flat panel interface ...............................................................................................9

Using the analog VGA interface..................................................................................................9

Using the USB ports....................................................................................................................9

Using the Ethernet interface .......................................................................................................9

System resources...................................................................................................................................10

PCI devices and functions ........................................................................................................10

I/O map......................................................................................................................................10

System memory map ................................................................................................................11

Interrupts ...................................................................................................................................11

Hardware specifications .........................................................................................................................12

Block diagram ...........................................................................................................................12

Expansion buses.......................................................................................................................13

Graphic support.........................................................................................................................13

USB support..............................................................................................................................13

Ethernet support........................................................................................................................14

IDE support ...............................................................................................................................14

SPI flash drive ...........................................................................................................................14

Serial port ..................................................................................................................................14

Parallel port ...............................................................................................................................14

Watchdog ..................................................................................................................................14

I2C.............................................................................................................................................14

Power requirements ..................................................................................................................15

Power consumption...................................................................................................................15

Mechanical ................................................................................................................................15

Connectors .............................................................................................................................................17

Top view ....................................................................................................................................17

Connectors................................................................................................................................18

BIOS .......................................................................................................................................................23

Basic CMOS configuration........................................................................................................23

Custom configuration ................................................................................................................24

Reset CMOS to last known values ...........................................................................................25

Reset CMOS to factory defaults ...............................................................................................25

Write to CMOS and exit ............................................................................................................25

Exit without changing CMOS ....................................................................................................25

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Appendix A – CPU 1440 Cable kit .........................................................................................................26

Appendix B – Reference information.....................................................................................................27

Eurotech Group Worldwide presence....................................................................................................29

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Handling your board safely

Anti-static handling

This board contains CMOS devices that could be damaged in the event of static electricity

being discharged through them. At all times, please observe anti-static precautions when

handling the board. This includes storing the board in appropriate anti-static packaging and

wearing a wrist strap when handling the board.

Battery

The CPU-1440-Breakout board contains a lithium non-rechargeable battery. Do not short circuit

the battery or place on a metal surface where the battery terminals could be shorted. When

disposing of the board or battery, take appropriate care. Do not incinerate, crush or otherwise

damage the battery. The battery is inserted in a socket and can be replaced with a 3.0V Lithium

CR2032 Coin Cell.

Packaging

Please ensure that, should a board need to be returned to Eurotech, it is adequately packed,

preferably in the original packing material.

Electromagnetic compatibility (EMC)

The CPU-1440 is classified as a component with regard to the European Community EMC

regulations and it is the user’s responsibility to ensure that systems using the board are

compliant with the appropriate EMC standards.

RoHS compliance

The European RoHS Directive (Restriction on the use of certain Hazardous Substances –

Directive 2002/95/EC) limits the amount of 6 specific substances within the composition of the

product.

A full RoHS Compliance Materials Declaration Form for the CPU-1440 is included as Appendix

B – RoHS Compliance, page 27. Further information regarding RoHS compliance is available

on the Eurotech web site at www.eurotech.com.

Conventions

The following symbols are used in this guide:

Symbol Explanation

Note - information that requires your attention.

Warning - proceeding with a course of action may

damage your equipment or result in loss of data.

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Product Overview

CPU-1440 PC/104+ board

Processor

• DM&P Vortex86DX

• 600MHz

• 2x16KB L1 cache, 256KB L2 cache

System memory

• DDR2 SDRAM 128 or 512 MB (300MHz)

BIOS

• Phoenix / General Software Embedded BIOS

Expansion buses

• PC/104-Plus (32-bit PCI)

• PC/104 (16-bit ISA)

Graphics

• Analogue VGA interface

• 18-bit TFT and LVDS interfaces

USB support

• USB 2.0 supporting low/full/high speed modes

• Four ports

Ethernet

• One fast Ethernet port supporting 10/100 Base-T

Standard IO

• Four high speed serial ports 16C550 compatible (one RS-232, three TTL)

• One parallel port

Flash

• 2MB SPI on-board flash disk

IDE support

• Possibility to connect one or two external IDE devices

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Power supply

• 5V only operation

• Power consumption less than 4W

• External battery for RTC backup

Mechanical

• PC/104-Plus form factor, 97x100 mm

Environmental

• Operating temperature -25 °C to +70 °C

• RoHS directive : lead-free

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Software specification

Operating system support

The CPU-1440 is compatible with the following operating systems:

• Microsoft DOS 6.22

• Linux 2.6

• Windows embedded CE 6.0

Eurotech provides Linux and CE development kits which can be loaded from an external

Compact Flash.

Drivers

All system components have drivers available for Windows CE and Linux.

Refer to the relevant Software manual for more information.

BIOS

The CPU-1440-00 board incorporates a General Software Embedded BIOS.

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Getting started with your board

Once you have a working CPU-1440 system, you can start adding other peripherals to enable

you to start development. This section helps you through setting up and using peripherals and

some of the features of the CPU-1440 board.

The CPU-1440 board is based on the Phoenix / General Software Embedded BIOS to provide

support for the board as standard. BIOS defaults have been selected to enable the board to

operate with a minimal number of devices connected. If you want to change the defaults

settings, you can use the BIOS setup program.

The setup parameters can be stored in Flash device and retained when the power is switched

off.

Connecting a flash or hard disk drive

The CPU-1440 board provides a single primary IDE controller, with a 44-way 2mm header

(JP11) to connect one or two external IDE devices.

The BIOS detects the IDE devices during the POST processes and configures the hardware

correctly. The BIOS allows either a master or a slave device to be the boot device. It also allows

the manual selection of transfer modes (Fast PIO, and up to UDMA-2).

Connecting a PS/2 keyboard and mouse

A PS/2 keyboard and mouse is supported on a 10-way header (JP9). Suitable cable and

breakout board are provided in the development kit. The PS/2 interfaces are made available on

the CPU-1440 breakout board through the PS/2 MiniDIN connectors.

See page 21 for connector details.

Using the battery

The external battery connection is provided on a 10-way connector (JP12). The battery is

provided in the CPU-1440 development kit.

Using the serial interfaces

The four serial port interfaces are fully PC compatible. They are decoded at standard PC

address locations. PC applications can use these ports without any special configuration.

COM1 is a RS232 interface, supported on a 9-way 1.25mm header (JP6). Suitable cable is

provided in the development kit to enable the standard 9-way D-type male header.

COM2 is a TTL interface, supported on a 10-way 2mm header (JP7). Suitable RS232 adapter

board and the breakout board are provided in the development kit.

COM3 and COM4 are TTL interfaces, supported on a 20-way 2 mm header (JP3).

Suitable RS232 adapter boards and the breakout board are provided in the development kit.

See pages 20 and 21 for connector details.

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Using the parallel port interface

The parallel port interface is fully PC compatible. It is decoded at standard PC address

location. It is supported on a 20-way 2mm header (JP8). Suitable cable is provided in the

development kit to enable the standard 26-way D-type female header.

See page 21 for connector details.

Using the LVDS flat panel interface

The CPU-1440 board provides a single channel LVDS LCD display interface on a 26-way

2mm header (JP4). See page 20 for connector details. A breakout board is provided in

the development kit. The maximum resolution is 1280x1024. The display type can be

selected from the BIOS setup.

The backlight power supply and control must be provided externally. The breakout board

performs this.

Using the TFT flat panel interface

The CPU-1440 board provides a TFT LCD display interface on a 30-way 1mm FPC

header (JP1). See page 19 for connector details. The maximum resolution is 1280x1024.

The display type can be selected from the BIOS setup.

The backlight power supply and control must be provided externally.

Using the analogue VGA interface

The CPU-1440 board provides an analogue VGA display interface on a 10-way header

(JP2). See page 19 for connector details. This can be used to directly interface to

analogue VGA displays with a resolution up to a maximum of 1280x1024. A suitable

cable and the breakout board are provided in the development kit to enable the standard

high density D-sub female header.

Using the USB ports

The CPU-1440 board provides four user accessible USB 2.0 ports. They are available on

2 headers (JP5 – ports 0/1, JP4 – ports 2/3). See page 20 for connector details. Power

supply on JP5 does not provide a power switch, it must be added externally. The USB

ports are available on the breakout board on standard type-A connectors. Adapter boards

are also available in the development kit. The OS boot from USB mass storage is NOT

supported.

Using the Ethernet interface

The CPU-1440 board provides one 10/100 Ethernet port, available on a 10-way header

(JP10), see page 22 for connector details. A suitable adapter board and breakout board

are provided in the development kit, they contain a standard RJ45 connector.

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System resources

PCI devices and functions

Device Function Function description

0 North bridge

(Vortex86DX)

0

1 North bridge 1

(Vortex86DX)

3 0 Silicon Motion SM722

VGA controller

7 0 South bridge

(Vortex86DX)

8 0 Fast Ethernet MAC

(Vortex86DX)

0 USB OHCI1

(Vortex86DX)

10

1 USB EHCI1

(Vortex86DX)

0 USB OHCI2

(Vortex86DX)

11

1 USB EHCI 2

(Vortex86DX)

12 0 IDE (Vortex86DX)

15 0 Reserved for USB

device (Vortex86DX)

16 0 PC/104-Plus slot 0

17 0 PC/104-Plus slot 1

18 0 PC/104-Plus slot 2

19 0 PC/104-Plus slot 3

I/O map

I/O location Resource

0000 - 000F master DMA controller

0020 - 0021 master interrupt controller

0022 - 0023 indirect access registers

0040 - 0043 Timer

0048 - 004B PWM control registers

0050 - 005D SPI

0060 - 0064 keyboard controller

0061 NMI control and status

0065 - 006D WDT registers

0070 - 0071 RTC/CMOS

0072 - 0075 MTBF registers

0080 Debug port

0081 - 008F DMA pages

0092 system control

00A0 - 00A1 slave interrupt controller

00C0 - 00DF slave DMA controller

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01F0 - 01F7 Primary IDE

02E8 – 02EF COM4

02F8 - 02FF COM2

0302 - 0303 Watch dog

0308 - 030F GPIO configuration

0378 - 037F Parallel port

03B0 - 03DF Video

03E8 – 03EF COM3

03F6 - 03F7 Primary IDE

03F8 - 03FF COM1

0481 - 048B DMA high page registers

0493 - 0499 instruction counter registers

04D0 - 04D1

interrupt edge/level control

registers

0702 - 0703 Watch dog

0778 - 077A Parallel port (ECP)

5000 - 500F I2C

F800 – F8FF Fast ethernet MAC

System memory map

System memory segment Description

0009F80 – 0009FFF Extended BIOS data area

000A000 – 000BFFF VGA controller

000C000 – 000CBFF Video BIOS

000E000 – 000FFFF BIOS

FFE0000 – FFFFFFF High BIOS

Interrupts

IRQ

Interrupt source

0 System timer

1 PS/2 keyboard controller

2 Interrupt controller cascade

3 COM2

4 COM1

5 PCI bus

6 Reserved for floppy

7 Parallel port

8 Real time clock

9 PCI bus

10 PCI bus

11 PCI bus

12 PS/2 compatible mouse

13 Floating point unit

14 IDE controller

15

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COM1

RS23

2

COM2

TTL

COM3

TTL

COM4

TTL

Parallel

Port

DDR2

128MB or

512MB

Vortex 86DX

ISA

PC/104-Plus

Video

SM722

PC

Analogue VGA

TFT

LVDS

ETHERNET

10/100

BASE-T

4 USB 2.0

PS/2 KEYBOARD

AND MOUSE

IDE

Hardware specification

Block diagram

I2C

2 MB SPI

FLASH

WATCH

DOG

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Expansion buses

PC/104-Plus bus interface

The PC/104-Plus bus interface supports PCI local bus compatible peripherals, as defined

in the PCI local bus specification revision 2.2. This version of the PCI bus is intended as a

32-bit running at 33MHz (as specified in the PC/104-Plus specification version 2.0).

A standard stack through connector for the PCI bus (4x30-pin, 2mm pitch) is used for this

interface. See page 19 for connector pin details.

The CPU-1440 board supplies the 3.3V and VIO pins with a 3.3V voltage. Total

connected boards consumption must be less than 2.5A.

+12V is only available if it is supplied to the PC/104 bus stack. -12V and -5V are not

available, if you require it, it must be supplied directly to the PC/104-Plus Stack.

PC/104 bus interface

PC/104 bus interface supports 16-bit ISA compatible peripherals.

Standard 64+40 way 0.1” stack-through connectors are used. See page 19 for connector

pin details.

If you are using a PC/104 card that requires +5V, this is automatically supplied via the

PC/104 header. If necessary, +12V, -12V and -5V must be supplied directly to the

PC/104 stack.

Graphics support

The integrated 2D/3D graphics controller includes a dedicated 8MB graphics memory,

and supports hardware accelerated graphics display and video processing capabilities.

The maximum resolution is 1280x1024.

The Silicon Motion SM722 controller provides:

• an analogue VGA interface on a 10-pin header (JP2). See page 19 for analogue

VGA connector details.

• a single channel 18-bit LVDS interface on a 26-pin 2mm header (JP4). See page

20 for connector details.

• a 18-bit TFT interface on a 30-pin FPC header (JP1). See page 19 for TFT

connector details.

• a PAL or NTSC compatible composite TV output on a U-FL coaxial header.

USB support

The CPU-1440 supports up to four USB 2.0 high-speed root ports. USB 2.0 allows

transfers up to 480 Mb/s.

USB ports are available on connectors JP4 and JP5. Common modes chokes coils are

added to the USB data lines to improve signal integrity. Power distribution switches are

used for USB ports 2-3 to provide 500 mA current-limited power supply. It must be added

externally for ports 0-1.

USB boot is not supported.

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Ethernet interface

A 10/100 Ethernet interface (MAC and PHY) is available on the CPU-1440 board, implemented

in the Vortex86DX processor. It provides a standard IEEE 802.3 Ethernet interface for

100BASE-TX and 10BASE-T applications (802.3, 802.3u). Magnetics are included.

Ethernet interface is available on a 10-way header (JP10). See page 22 for connector details.

IDE support

The parallel ATA/IDE interface is routed to a 44-pin header (JP11) on the CPU-1440 board. It

supports only the primary channel, with one master and one slave device.

PIO modes 0-4, Multi-word DMA modes 0-2 and Ultra DMA modes 0-2 are supported.

A common application is to connect this interface to a 2.5-inch ATA/IDE disk drive. For

connector details, see page 22.

SPI flash drive

The CPU-1440 board integrates a 2MB bootable SPI flash drive. It is recognized by the BIOS

and can be used to store a small DOS application.

Serial ports

The CPU-1440 provides four 16C550-compatible serial ports. It supports up to 115Kbaud data

rates and 16-byte send/receive FIFO’s. RS-485 auto-direction flow control is supported on

COM3 and COM4.

Serial port 1 is made available as a full RS-232 interface supporting all modem control lines.

Serial ports 2-4 are TTL ports with all modem control lines. Serial port 1 is available on a 9-pin

header JP6, serial port 2 on a 10-pin header JP7, and serial ports 3-4 on a 20-pin header JP3.

See pages 21 and 20 for connector details.

Parallel port

The CPU-1440 provides one XT/AT compatible parallel port. It supports the PS/2 type bi-

directional parallel port (SPP), the enhanced parallel port (EPP 1.7 and 1.9), and the extended

capabilities parallel port (ECP) modes. It is available on a 20-pin header JP8, see page 21 for

connector details.

Watchdog

The CPU-1440 provides a watchdog function, with a fixed 100ms refresh time. It is enabled and

refreshed with an I/O write access at port 702h. It can be disabled at any time with an I/O write

access at port 302h. If the watchdog is not refreshed after having been enabled, a hardware

reset is generated.

I2C

A 3.3V signaling (5V-tolerant) I2C interface is provided on the 10-pin header JP12. For

connector details see page 22. This interface is compliant with V2.1.

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Power requirements

The CPU-1440 board operates from +5V (+/-5%) power input. All other supply rails are

generated on-board.

An external coin cell battery input is available through a 10-way header (JP12, see page

22).

Power consumption

The power consumption of the CPU-1440 board is 3W typical.

Mechanical

The CPU-1440 board is based on the PC/104 form factor standard. Mechanical drawings

are shown on the following page.

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Connectors

The CPU-1440 board has the following connectors:

Connector Function

P1 PCI bus

P2 ISA bus

P3 ISA bus

JP1 TFT video

JP2 Analogue VGA

JP3 Serial ports 3 and 4

JP4 LVDS video, USB

ports 2 and 3, TFT

supply

JP5 USB ports 0 and 1

JP6 Serial port 1

JP7 Serial port 2

JP8 Parallel port

JP9 PS/2 keyboard and

mouse

JP10 10/100 Ethernet

JP11 IDE

JP12 I2C port, external

battery

.

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JP9 P3

JP6

P1

JP5

JP1

(solder

side)

JP3

JP10

JP8

JP11

1

Top view

P2

JP12

JP4

JP7

JP2

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Connectors

P1, P2 and P3 – Buses for PC/104-Plus connectivity

Connector P1: 120-way 2mm (0.0787”) stackthrough PC/104-Plus compatible socket.

Connector P2: 64-way, 2.54mm (0.1”) x 2.54mm (0.1”) stackthrough PC/104 compatible

connector (row A and B).

Connector P3: 40-way, 2.54mm (0.1”) x 2.54mm (0.1”) stackthrough PC/104 compatible

connector (row C and D).

JP1 – TFT video

Connector: Molex 52207-3090, 30-way, 1mm FPC header.

Pin # Signal Pin # Signal

1 N.C. 16 G1

2 N.C. 17 G0

3 DE 18 GND

4 GND 19 R5

5 B5 20 R4

6 B4 21 R3

7 B3 22 R2

8 B2 23 R1

9 B1 24 R0

10 B0 25 GND

11 GND 26 FRAME

12 G5 27 LINE

13 G4 28 FPEN

14 G3 29 DCLK

15 G2 30 GND

JP2 – Analogue VGA

Bent connector: 10-way, 2.54mm (0.1”), header.

Pin # Signal Pin # Signal

1 GND

2 GND

3 VSYNC

4 HSYNC

5 GND

6 BLUE

7 GREEN

8 RED

9 GND

10 GND

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JP3 – Serial ports 3 and 4

Connector: 20-way, 2mm (.0787”), header.

Pin # Signal Pin # Signal

1

DCD3

2

DSR3

3

RXD3

4

RTS3

5

TXD3

6

CTS3

7

DTR3

8

R13

9

GND

10

TXEN3

11

DCD4

12

DSR4

13

RXD4

14

RTS4

15

TXD4

16

CTS4

17

DTR4

18

R14

19

GND

20

TXEN4

JP4 – LVDS video, USB ports 2 and 3, TFT supply

Connector: 26-way, 2mm (.0787”), header.

Pin # Signal Pin # Signal

1 LVDS_D0+ 2 LVDS_D0 -

3 GND 4 GND

5 LVDS_D1+ 6 LVDS_D1-

7 GND 8 Panel 3.3Vdc

9 LVDS_D3+ 10 LVDS_D3-

11 LVDS_D2+ 12 LVDS_D2-

13 GND 14 GND

15 LVDS_CLK+ 16 LVDS_CLK-

17 FPEN 18 Panel 3.3Vdc

19 GND 20 V5_USB3

21 V5_USB2 22 USB_D3-

23 USB_D2- 24 USB_D3+

25 USB_D2+ 26 GND

JP5 – USB ports 0 and 1

Connector: 8-way, 2mm (.0787”), header.

Pin # Signal Pin # Signal

1 GND

2 +5 V

3 N.C.

4 Reserved

5 USB_D0-

6 USB_D0+

7 USB_D1-

8 USB_D1+

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