Document Outline

• 0. PREFACE
  • 0.1 WELCOME TO THE AR-B1320 CPU BOARD
  • 0.2 BEFORE YOU USE THIS GUIDE
  • 0.3 RETURNING YOUR BOARD FOR SERVICE
  • 0.4 TECHNICAL SUPPORT AND USER COMMENTS
  • 0.5 ORGANIZATION
  • 0.6 STATIC ELECTRICITY PRECAUTIONS
  • 1. OVERVIEW
    • 1.1 INTRODUCTION
    • 1.2 PACKING LIST
    • 1.3 FEATURES
  • 0.
  • 2. SYSTEM CONTROLLER
    • 2.1 MICROPROCESSOR
    • 2.2 DMA CONTROLLER
    • 2.3 DRAM CONFIGURATION
    • 2.4 I/O CONTROLLER
    • 2.5 I/O PORT ADDRESS MAP
    • 2.6 INTERRUPT CONTROLLER
    • 2.7 SERIAL PORTS
  • (2) Transmitter Holding Register (THR)
  • (3) Interrupt Enable Register (IER)
  • (4) Interrupt Identification Register (IIR)
  • (5) Line Control Register (LCR)
  • (6) MODEM Control Register (MCR)
  • (7) Line Status Register (LSR)
  • (8) MODEM Status Register (MSR)
  • (9) Divisor Latch (LS, MS)
    • 2.8 PARALLEL PORT
    • 2.9 TIMER
    • 2.10 REAL-TIME CLOCK AND NON-VOLATILE RAM
    • 2.11 WATCHDOG TIMER
    • 2.12 FLASH DISK
  • 3. SETTING THE SYSTEM
    • 3.1 BOARD LAYOUT
    • 3.2 CPU BASE CLOCK SELECT (JP1)
    • 3.3 SWITCH SETTINGS (SW1)
    • 3.4 EXTERNAL LED HEADER (J1)
    • 3.5 KEYBOARD CONNECTOR (J2)
    • 3.6 RESET HEADER (J3)
    • 3.7 SPEAKER HEADER (J4)
    • 3.8 POWER CONNECTOR (J5)
    • 3.9 PRINTER CONNECTOR (CN1)
    • 3.10 FLOPPY CONNECTOR (CN2)
    • 3.11 SERIAL PORT CONNECTORS (CN3, CN4 & CN5)
      • 3.11.1 RS-232C CONNECTORS (CN3 & CN4)
      • 3.11.2 RS-485 CONNECTOR (CN5)
      • 3.11.3 RS-485 TERMINATOR (JP2 & JP3)
    • 3.12 HARD DISK CONTROLLER (CN6)
    • 3.13 PC/104 CONNECTOR (CN7 & CN8)
      • 3.13.1 64 PIN PC/104 CONNECTOR – CN8 (BUS A & B)
      • 3.13.2 40 PIN PC/104 CONNECTOR - CN7 (BUS C & D)
      • 3.13.3 PC/104 CHANNEL SIGNAL DESCRIPTION
    • 3.14 LED INDICATOR (LED1 & LED2)
      • 3.14.1 POWER LED (LED1)
      • 3.14.2 STATUS LED (LED2)
  • (1) Active Square Wave Output (Act_Sqw)
  • (2) Inactive Square Wave Output
  • (3) Set Flash Rate
    • 3.15 USING THE WATCHDOG TIMER
      • 3.15.1 WD ENABLE REGISTER - INDEX 37H
      • 3.15.2 WD REPORT REGISTER - INDEX 38H
      • 3.15.3 WD TIMER COUNTER(24 BITS) - INDEX 39H, 3AH, AND 3BH
      • 3.15.4 TIMEOUT STATUS & RESET WATCHDOG - INDEX 3CH
      • 3.15.5 PROGRAMMING WATCHDOG - BASIC OPERATION
  • (1) Unlock Configuration Register
  • (2) Lock Configuration Register
  • (3) Read the Value in the Configuration Register
  • (4) Write Data to Configuration Register
    • 3.16 USING THE FLASH DISK
      • 3.16.1 SSD CONFIGURATION
      • 3.16.2 SOFTWARE PROGRAMMING
      • 3.16.3 DISKONMODULE
      • 0.1.1
  • 4. BIOS CONSOLE
    • 4.1 BIOS SETUP OVERVIEW
    • 4.2 STANDARD CMOS SETUP
  • Date & Time Setup
  • Floppy Setup
  • Hard Disk Setup
  • Boot Sector Virus Protection
    • 4.3 ADVANCED CMOS SETUP
  • 1st Boot Device
  • 2nd Boot Device
  • 3rd Boot Device
  • 4th Boot Device
  • Boot From Card Device
  • Try Other Boot Device
  • BootUp Num-Lock
  • Floppy Drive Swap
  • Floppy Drive Seek
  • Typematic Rate
  • System Keyboard
  • Primary Display
  • Password Check
  • Wait for ‘F1’ If Error
  • C000, 32k Shadow
  • C800, 32k Shadow
  • D000, 32k Shadow
  • D800, 32k Shadow
  • INTERNAL_FLASH_DISK
    • 4.4 ADVANCED CHIPSET SETUP
  • AT Bus Clock
  • Slow Refresh
  • RAS Precharge Time
  • RAS Active Time Insert Wait
  • ISA I/O High Speed
  • I/O Recovery/ I/O Recovery Period
  • 16Bit ISA Insert Wait
  • Watch Dog Timer Output Control
  • Watch Dog Timeout Trigger Signal
    • 4.5 PERIPHERAL SETUP
  • Hard Disk Delay
  • OnBoard Primary IDE
  • OnBoard FDC
  • OnBoard Serial Port1
  • OnBoard Serial Port1 IRQ
  • OnBoard Serial Port2
  • OnBoard Serial Port2 IRQ
  • Onboard Parallel Port
  • Parallel Port Mode
  • Parallel Port IRQ
  • Parallel Port DMA Channel
    • 4.6 AUTO-DETECT HARD DISKS
    • 4.7 PASSWORD SETTING
    • 4.8 SETTING THE PASSWORD
      • 4.8.1 CHECKING THE PASSWORD
    • 4.9 LOAD THE DEFAULT SETTING
      • 4.9.1 AUTO CONFIGURATION WITH OPTIMAL SETTING
      • 4.9.2 AUTO CONFIGURATION WITH FAIL SAFE SETTING
    • 4.10 BIOS EXIT
      • 4.10.1 SAVE SETTINGS AND EXIT
      • 4.10.2 EXIT WITHOUT SAVING
    • 4.11 BIOS UPDATE
  • 5. APPENDIX
    • 5.1 SPECIFICATIONS
    • 5.2 SUPPORTED FLASH MEMORY
    • 5.3 BOARD DIMENSIONS
    • 5.4 PROGRAMMING THE RS-485
  • (1) Initializing the COM port
  • (2) Send out one character (Transmit)
  • (3) Send out one block data (Transmit – the data can be more than two characters long)
  • (4) Receive data
  • (5) Basic Language Example