Ampro Corporation 486E - Manual (Page 3)

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Table of Contents
Preface
Introduction ........................................................................................................................................ vii
Technical Support ............................................................................................................................... vii
Introduction
General Description ...........................................................................................................................1–1
Features .............................................................................................................................................1–1
CPU/Motherboard ........................................................................................................................1–1
VL-Bus Flat Panel/CRT Display Controller ................................................................................1–2
Enhanced Embedded-PC BIOS....................................................................................................1–2
Serial Ports ..................................................................................................................................1–3
Enhanced Parallel Port................................................................................................................1–3
Floppy Interface...........................................................................................................................1–3
IDE Interface ...............................................................................................................................1–3
Compact Flash Disk.....................................................................................................................1–3
Ethernet LAN Interface...............................................................................................................1–4
Byte-Wide Socket and Solid State Disk (SSD) ............................................................................1–4
Modular PC/104 Expansion Bus ..................................................................................................1–5
Enhanced Reliability .........................................................................................................................1–5
HALT Testing ....................................................................................................................................1–6
Software .............................................................................................................................................1–7
Little Board Development Platform ..................................................................................................1–8
Product Reference
Overview ............................................................................................................................................2–1
Interface Connector Summary.....................................................................................................2–1
Jumper Configuration Options ....................................................................................................2–4
System I/O Map ...........................................................................................................................2–4
DC Power ...........................................................................................................................................2–6
Power Requirements....................................................................................................................2–7
Backup Battery ............................................................................................................................2–7
Cooling Requirements..................................................................................................................2–7
Powerfail Monitor ........................................................................................................................2–8
DRAM.................................................................................................................................................2–9
System Memory Map ...................................................................................................................2–9
Expanded Memory and Extended Memory ...............................................................................2–10
Serial Ports (J11, J13) .....................................................................................................................2–11
RS-232C Serial Ports .................................................................................................................2–11
RS-485 Serial Port .....................................................................................................................2–11