EBC-BX SBC with Video EMBEDDED COMPUTERS and 10/100 Ethernet FEATURES ® ® ! Intel low power Celeron 400 MHz or low power ® Pentium III 700 MHz CPU ! 100 MHz processor system bus ! EBX-compliant board ! 32 to 256MB of system SDRAM supported in 168-pin DIMM (PC-100) ® ! Socket for up to 1GB bootable DiskOnChip or BIOS extension EPROM ! PC-compatible; uses Intel 440BX chip set ! High resolution, video controller supports  AGP interface  Color panels supported with up to 24-bits/pixel  Supports resolutions up to 1280 x 1024  Simultaneous CRT and LCD operation  PCI local bus for high speed operation  Asiliant 69000 graphics accelerator ! Ethernet controller using Intel 82551ER ! 4 RS-232 serial ports with FIFO, COM1 & COM2 with optional RS-422/485/J1708 support ! Bi-directional LPT port supports EPP/ECP ! 48 bi-directional TTL digital I/O lines with 24 capable of event sense interrupt generation ! ! USB supported Two interrupt controllers and 7 DMA channels ! ! Two, dual Ultra DMA/66 EIDE hard drive connectors Three 16-bit counter timers ! ! Floppy disk controller supports 1 or 2 drives +5 volt only operation ! ! PC/104 and PC/104-Plus expansion connectors Drop-in for WinSystems’ EBC-TXPlus and EBC-LP ! ! AT keyboard controller and PS/2 mouse support Real Time Clock, WDT and power fail reset ! ! Activity LEDs onboard Small size: 5.75” x 8.0” (146 mm x 203 mm) Memory - Up to 256Mbytes of Synchronous Dynamic OVERVIEW RAM (SDRAM) can be installed on the board by using 168-pin DIMM. A PC-100 compatible part (non-regis- The EBC-BX is a feature-rich, single board computer ® tered, unbuffered) with gold-plated fingers is the rec- (SBC) populated with either a low power Celeron or ® ommended SDRAM. They are available from low power Pentium III CPU. The powerful CPU gives independent memory suppliers such as Crucial engineers a high-performance, cost-effective, and low- Techology or directly from WinSystems. The board is power x86 engine for computational-demanding, shipped from the factory with no memory installed that embedded applications. It is a drop-in upgrade to Win- permits the user to install and/or upgrade the memory Systems’ EBC-TXPlus or EBC-LP. capacity in the field. It is configured with either a 400 MHz or 700 MHz CPU BIOS - An industry-standard, Award BIOS is onboard to with 10/100 Ethernet networking capability, advanced provide configuration flexibility, performance and AT- video support, four serial channels, 48 digital I/O lines, compatibility. It is set with a factory default that can be and the standard AT peripheral feature set. The board modified by the user. The BIOS is located in an EEPROM measures only 5.75 x 8.0-inches and is EBX-compliant. that can be modified without removing the storage de- It supports expansion with PC/104 or PC/104-Plus con- vice from the board. It will support diskless, keyboard- nectors or with USB. Its PC software compatibility less, and videoless operation as well as BIOS shadowing. assures easy program development, and checkout. Also BIOS extensions can be programmed into another FUNCTIONAL CAPABILITY EPROM for remote boot from the Ethernet, video exten- sions, etc. This socket is shared with the SSD. Processor - The EBC-BX is populated with either a 400 ® ® ® MHz Celeron or 700 MHz Intel Pentium III processor. Direct Memory Access (DMA) - Seven DMA channels They are supported from Intel's Embedded Architecture are supported with Channel 2 dedicated to the floppy Division for longer-term availability. Each is a low disk controller. The LPT is jumper selectable for ECP power, surface mount BGA2 part designed for thermal- operation. The other DMA channels are wired to the ly sensitive and space-constrained applications. Both PC/104 connector. feature an on-die L1 16KB instruction and 16KB Write- back data cache operating at the CPU's core frequency. Floppy Disk Support - Up to two 3.5”or 5.25” drives ® from 360KB through 1.44MB formats are supported by The 400 MHz Celeron includes 128KB of on-die L2 ® the CMOS 765B floppy disk controller. It has an cache. The 700 MHz Pentium III includes 256KB of enhanced advanced digital data separator for different on-die L2 cache operating at the CPUs core frequency. ® data rates, programmable pre-compensation rates, plus The Pentium III's dual independent bus architecture underflow and overflow protection. Open drain, push- offers up to three times the bandwidth over a single bus pull drivers are wired to a standard, single 34-pin con- architecture providing leading edge, low-power proces- nector on 0.100-inch centers. Both drives can be daisy sor performance. chained from a single cable. System Controller - The EBC-BX uses the industry UDMA/66 EIDE Hard Disk Interface - The EBC-BX standard 440BX chip set. It consists of an Intel incorporates a PCI EIDE local bus interface for inde- 82443BX North bridge and South Bridge PCI-ISA-IDE pendent timing of up to 4 drives. PIO Mode 4 and Bus Xcelerator. The 82443BX provides a host-to-PCI bridge, Master IDE transfers of up to 28 Mbytes/sec are sup- optimized synchronous DRAM controller and data path, ported. Also, it supports Ultra DMA/66 synchronous and an Accelerated Graphic Port (AGP) interface. It DMA mode transfers up to 66 Mbytes/sec. Both the supports the 100 MHz 64-bit Host and SDRAM Bus inter- Primary and Secondary interface channels are wired to face, 32-bit/33MHz PCI Bus interface, power manage- a separate 40-pin header connector on 0.100-inch cen- ment, and it integrates the PCI arbiter. The 82443BX ters. Each channel has an LED that blinks during data works with the South Bridge to provide the PCI-to- transfer to provide visual status information. ISA/IDE bridge functions along with other features such as a fast IDE interface (PIO mode 4 and Ultra DMA/66), Plug-n-Play port, and USB controller functions. It also Solid State Disk (SSD) Support - A JEDEC standard provides the core logic that makes the board PC/AT 32-pin, machine-tooled socket is provided to accept an ® software compatible including integrated peripheral M-Systems’ DiskOnChip (DOC). The DOC offers from controllers (two 82C37 DMAs, 82C54 timer, two 82C59 8 meg to 1 gigabyte storage capacities in a single PICs, RTC, and CMOS memory) and the ISA bus for device. It includes an internal flash file system that pro- PC/104 expansion. vides hard disk read/write compatibility, automatic bad internal video RAM rather than the standard 2MB that is block management, and wear-leveling. A designer can integrated into the 69000 controller. More memory per- use an onboard semiconductor device for applications mits more color depth at higher resolutions. Contact a where the environment is too harsh for mechanical hard factory application engineer for more details and pricing. disks or floppy disk drives while offering significant speed advantages. Resolution Color (bpp) Refresh Rate 640 x 480 8 60, 75, 85 Ethernet Controller - An Intel 82551ER is the 32-bit 640 x 480 16 60, 75, 85 PCI Ethernet controller chip used for high-speed data 640 x 480 24 60, 75, 85 transfer. It has auto negotiation capability for speed, 800 x 600 8 60, 75, 85 duplex, and flow control. It supports IEEE 802.3 10- 800 x 600 16 60, 75, 85 800 x 600 24 60, 75, 85 BaseT and 100BaseT in either full- or half-duplex mode 1024 x 768 8 60, 75, 85 at both 10 and 100 Mbps. In full-duplex mode, it 1024 x 768 16 60, 75, 85 adheres to the IEEE 802.x Flow Control Specification. 1280 x 1024 8 60 Two large 3Kbyte transmit and receive FIFOs help CRT Video Interface - A triple 8-bit integrated RAM- prevent data underruns and overruns. It has fast back- DAC provides CRT support. The CRT video output sig- to-back transmission support with minimum interframe nals are wired to a 14-pin dual-in-line connector at the spacing. It also has improved dynamic transmit chain- edge of the board. An optional CBL-234-1 interface ing with multiple priorities transmit queues. There are cable adapts it to a standard female 15-pin “D-Sub” type three LEDs on the board that provide status information. connector commonly used for VGA. Simultaneous oper- The red LED indicates 100BaseT, the yellow indicates ation of the CRT and LCD is supported. Link, and the green is the Rx/Tx packet data. Flat Panel Display Support - The EBC-BX supports The 82551ER chip is very popular both in the commer- most flat panel display technologies including plasma, cial and industrial PC-compatible market. This means electroluminescent (EL), active matrix TFT/MIM that most PC-compatible drivers, utilities and 10/100 LCD, passive STN and single panel, Single Drive (SS). It Ethernet supported operating systems will work direct- will support mono and color displays. The board prop- ly with the EBC-BX. The configuration information erly sequences the power for logic voltage and the back- describing the device’s architecture, address, interrupt, light inverter to provide intelligent and safe power etc. is stored in a serial EEPROM. sequencing to the panel. Networking - The EBC-BX supports remote booting FP-100 Interface - Since there is not an electrical or with an onboard EPROM socket for use as a diskless net- mechanical interface standard for flat panels, work computer. Optionally, a 64KB Flash can be popu- WinSystems has developed a flat panel interface system lated for boot block support. The Intel 82551ER is sup- configuration to work with the different interface sig- ported by numerous network OSs and kernels. nals, timing requirements, and connectors that vary between panel technologies and suppliers. The FP-100 Video Controller - An Asiliant 69000 high-performance video bus supports panels up to 24-bits per pixel. It has PCI flat panel/CRT controller provides a sophisticated power, timing and control signals for various panel graphics accelerator video engine. It has a 66 MHz, 1x types. The logic levels are 3.3 volts but are 5.0V tolerant. AGP interface to the CPU to improve its performance. It Also, 4 lines are assigned to allow the EBC-BX to read an supports a wide variety of monochrome and color ID jumper setting on the personality module or cable to active and passive LCD panel displays. The 69000 sup- auto configure the BIOS for the correct panel type. ports up to 16.7M colors on 24-bit, active matrix LCDs. Programmable horizontal and vertical stretching capa- Two, 50-pin, 2-mm connectors are used for the flat bilities are available for text and graphics modes for panel interface. Most connections can be made direct- optimal display on 800x600, 1024x768 and 1280x1024 ly with a modified cable, others will require a flat panel panels. It also has support for 16:9 aspect ratio panels. adapter module. Contact a WinSystems factory applica- tion engineer with your specific panel requirements. Two megabytes of video memory is on the chip which is sufficient to support the screen resolutions and maximum Software drivers are available with high-resolution dri- number of colors displayed required by most applications. vers for various software packages including Linux, DOS, Windows XP/CE/NT, and certain RTOS applications. As an option, the EBC-BX can also be supplied with an A BIOS extension in the onboard EPROM provides PC Asiliant 69030 controller. This controller has 4MB of occurred. Transition polarity is programmable and video compatibility for the various modes of enabled on a bit-by-bit basis. Each line’s transition is operation for the different panels. Video BIOS modifi- latched by the event so that even short duration pulses cations can be made for custom panel types. will be recognized. An interrupt ID register is main- tained for each line for writing more efficient Interrupt USB - The Universal Serial Bus offers users simple con- Service Routines. This is an efficient way of signaling nectivity with peripheral devices. This board has a USB the CPU of real-time events without the burden of port that supports transfers at either 1.5 or 12 polling the digital I/O points. Mbits/sec. The USB is wired to a 4-pin connector. An optional CBL-249-1 is the interface cable adapter to a The WS16C48 has its I/O lines connected to two, 50- standard female USB connector. pin occurred. Transition polarity is programmable and enabled on a bit-by-bit basis. Each line’s transition is Serial Communications - Four independent, full- latched by the event so that even short duration pulses duplex, RS-232 serial asynchronous channels are will be recognized. An interrupt ID register is main- onboard. Both the send and receive registers of each tained for each line for writing more efficient Interrupt channel has a 16-byte FIFO. This device is a dual 16C550 Service Routines. This is an efficient way of signaling compatible UART that offers software compatibility the CPU of real-time events without the burden of with PC-type driver programs. polling the digital I/O points. Independent control of transmit, receive, line status and The WS16C48 has its I/O lines connected to two, 50- data set interrupts are on all channels. Each channel is pin connectors. Twenty-four data lines are alternated setup to provide internal diagnostics as loopback and with 24 ground lines for reduced noise and crosstalk. echo mode on the data stream. An independent on-chip Also +5 volts and ground are included in the cable. The software programmable baud rate generator is select- pinout is compatible with the industry standard 4 to 24 able from 50 through 115.2 kbits/sec. Individual modem position I/O module mounting racks (Opto-22, etc.) for handshake control signals are supported for all channels. use with high-level AC and DC opto-isolated solid state relays. An optional CBL-115-4, 50-pin conductor ribbon RS-232 interface levels are supported on all channels. cable connects the EBC-BX to one I/O rack. The RS-232 drivers have an on-chip charge pump to generate the plus and minus voltages so that the EBC-BX Printer Port - The EBC-BX has a parallel port that only requires +5 volts to operate. may be operated in standard and bidirectional as well as Extended Capabilities Port (ECP - IEEE-1284) and En- Also RS-422, RS-485 or J1708 electrical levels can be hanced Parallel Port (EPP) modes. The controller chip supported on COM1 and COM2 by removing the RS-232 is designed to provide enhanced ESD and latch-up pro- transceivers and installing the optional CK-75176 chip kit. tection of up to 4KV/300mA. All serial channels are configured as Data Terminal The printer port can also be used as two additional Equipment (DTE). COM1 and COM2 are wired to a 50- general-purpose I/O ports if a printer is not required. pin connector at the edge of the board. WinSystems The first port is configured as 8 input or output only offers the optional CBL-247-1, which adapts each serial lines. The other port is configured as 5 input and 3 out- channel to 9-pin male “D” connectors. COM3 and put lines. COM4 are wired to a 20-pin connector on the board. WinSystems offers the optional CBL-173-1, which adapts Keyboard/Mouse Controller - An 80C42 equivalent each serial channel to 9-pin male “D” connectors. controller supports a PC/AT-compatible keyboard. The optional CBL-247-1 adapter cable provides the mate to 48-line Parallel I/O - The EBC-BX contains a a PS/2 type keyboard plug. highly versatile WS16C48, 48-line digital I/O controller. Each I/O line is individually programmable for input, A standard mouse controller is on board. Its input is output, or output with read-back operation. Each out- accessible through a 5-pin connector. WinSystems’ op- put channel is latched and has an open collector driver tional CBL-225-1 adapter cable interfaces the mouse (with a pull-up resistor) capable of sinking 12mA of cable connector to this board. current. Multi-I/O Connector Cable Adapter - WinSystems The major feature of this controller is its ability to mon- offers the optional CBL-247-1, Multi-I/O cable adapter itor 24 of the lines for both rising and falling digital edge for the COM1, COM2, LPT1 and keyboard. These four transitions, latch them and then interrupt the host ports are combined into one 50-pin header at the edge processor notifying that a change-of-input status has board voltage and automatically switches to internal of the board. The CBL-247-1 is a 1-foot adapter cable power when it drops below normal. that offers a more convenient termination. COM1 and COM2 are 9-pin male “D” connectors with strain relief. Standalone Operation - The board can be used as a LPT1 is a 25-pin “D” female socket with strain relief. complete, standalone embedded controller mounted on The keyboard is a standard 6-pin PS/2 connector socket. a flat surface using a set of standoffs. The EBC-BX mea- sures 5.75 x 8.0 inches (146mm x 203mm). Interrupts - Two 82C59A compatible interrupt con- trollers accept inputs from the onboard peripherals and PC/104 Expansion - The EBC-BX provides a common the PC/104 Bus for a total of twelve selectable interrupt computer core from which engineers can add off-the- sources. Also four PCI interrupt sources are supported shelf or user-designed, application-specific PC/104 mod- on the PC/104-Plus Bus which are PnP compliant. ules. PC/104 modules are self-stacking and plug togeth- er in a “piggy back” configuration to serve as a mezza- Status LED - A green status LED is also available to mon- nine expansion bus. PC/104 modules are very compact, itor system activity. Under a user’s program control, it measuring only 3.6 x 3.8 inches, and are offered by can indicate error conditions or blink different patterns WinSystems and a number of third party to provide a visual indication of system status. companies worldwide. Module functions include spe- cialty serial I/O, digital I/O, networking, GPS, modem, Real Time Clock - An MC146818A-compatible clock audio, SCSI, etc. supports a number of features including periodic and alarm interrupt capabilities. In addition to the time and The EBC-BX has both a 16-bit PC/104 and a 32-bit date keeping functions, the system configuration is kept PC/104-Plus interface and connector. PC/104 is the ISA in CMOS RAM contained within the clock section. bus and PC/104-Plus is the PCI bus for I/O functions requiring higher data transfer speeds. Watchdog Timer - A software/hardware enabled, retrig- gerable watchdog timer is provided. This timer must be SOFTWARE SUPPORT updated at least once every 1.5 or 15 seconds (jumper selectable) otherwise a failure is assumed and the board Software - The EBC-BX is designed to run both 16-bit will be reset. This circuit is important for use in remote and 32-bit x86 instruction set software. It is compatible and unattended applications. with Microsoft’s Windows operating systems, such as ® WindowsCE, WindowsXP, WindowsNT and Windows Timers - Three, independent 82C54 compatible 16-bit NTE as well as the applications that run on them. It also timers are supported. Channel 0 is wired to interrupt supports Linux and other PC-compatible x86 operating Channel 0, Channel 1 generates the DRAM refresh using systems such as QNX, VxWorks, and OS9000. It will DMA Channel 0, and the speaker port uses Channel 2. also run other real-time executives that require a “PC- AT” hardware environment. Speaker - An onboard speaker is available for sound generation. A beep code is generated that corresponds Software Developers Kit - WinSystems offers the to any BIOS error codes (if required) during the power SDK3-EBC-307-D software developers kit to provide the up or reset sequence necessary hardware, software and cables to begin pro- gram development with the EBC-BX board. One of the Power - Power is supplied via a 9-pin connector. For configurations consists of DOS 7.x, CBL-247-1 Multi-I/O most applications, the board only requires +5 volts. cable, CD-ROM drive, a 2GB or larger hard disk plus However, some flat panels may require +12 volts for the controller cable, a 1.44 MB high density 3.5 inch floppy backlight inverter. Additional the ±12V is wired to the disk plus controller cable and triple output power sup- PC/104 connector. ply housed in an enclosure. Also a PCM-POST module is included for debugging support. Reset - A precision comparator monitors the status of 3 critical board voltages. Upon detection of an out-of-tol- The power supply is an 80-Watt universal switcher that erance condition, the board is reset. This action is crit- will accept input voltages from 85 VAC to 264 VAC. ically important in order to detect brownout or power Output voltages are +5 volts at 12A, +12 volts at 3A, and fail conditions. The reset circuit also ensures that the -12 volts at 1A. The power supply, floppy disk and hard power is nominal before executing a power-on reset. disk are mounted in a black aluminum enclosure. The packaging permits easy access to the board, PC/104 Battery - A 350 mAH battery supplies the EBC-BX board modules and peripherals during program development. with standby power for the real time clock and CMOS setup RAM. A power supervisory circuit senses the off- ROM-DOS Developers Kit (RDK) - WinSystems also Connectors offers several different Flash-based developers kits for Serial, LPT, Keyboard: 50-pin on 0.100” grid those applications that do not need rotational media COM3 & 4: 20-pin on 0.100” grid during development. When you order an EBC-BX along Floppy Disk Interface: 34-pin on 0.100” grid with the RDK of your choice, WinSystems will IDE Interface: 40-pin on 0.100” grid jumper the CPU, program and install the Flash part into Parallel I/O: Two, 50-pin on 0.100” grid your EBC-BX. The RDK includes a PS-80W-1 external CRT: 14-pin on 2-mm. grid power supply, PCM-POST, DiskOnChip Flash memory, FP-100 Panel: Two, 50-pin on 2-mm. grid ROM-DOS, cables and utility software. For more infor- Ethernet: RJ-45 mation contact your factory applications engineer. PC/104 Bus: 64-pin 0.100” socket 40-pin 0.100” socket SPECIFICATIONS PC/104-Plus: 120-pin (4 x 30, 2 mm.) Power: 9-pin in-line Molex Electrical Mouse: 5-pin in-line Molex ® ® EBC-BX CPU Clock: 400 MHz Intel Celeron or ® 700 MHz Intel Pentium III Environmental PC/104 Interface: 16-bit, non-stackthrough Operating Temperature: PC/104-Plus Interface: 32-bit PCI, non-stackthrough EBC-BX-400-0 -40° to +60°C Ethernet data rate: 10/100 megabits per second EBC-BX-700-0 -40° to +60°C Serial Interface: 4 Serial channels with RS-232 levels Non-condensing relative humidity: 5% to 95% RS-422/485 optional using the CK-75176 kit on COM1 and COM2 only ORDERING INFORMATION LPT Interface: Bidirectional LPT with ECP/EPP ® ® EBC-BX-400-0 400 MHz Intel Celeron SBC Parallel Interface: 48 I/O lines, TTL compatible ® ® EBC-BX-700-0 700 MHz Intel PentiumIII SBC Output: IOL = 12mA at 0.6 volts Input: 10K nominal pull-up resistor For OEM applications, the EBC-BX can be ordered with UDMA/33 EIDE interface: Supports 4 drives the circuitry depopulated. Contact a factory applications Floppy Disk Interface: BIOS supports two engineer for configuration and pricing information. 360K/720K/1.2M/1.44M drives Vcc = +5V ±5% at 2.75A typ.: EBC-BX-400 RDK-EBC-307-xF ROM-DOS Developers Kit Vcc = +5V ±5% at 3.40A typ.: EBC-BX-700 SDK3-EBC-307-D Software Developers Kit Note: A flat panel backlight inverter usually requires ® FLASH-MD2000-Dxx DiskOnChip , where xx = 8, +12V to operate, refer to the manufacturer’s 16, 32, 48, 144, 288MB or specification for their current requirements. larger memory storage DIMM168-xxM 168-pin DIMM DRAM where System Memory xx = 32, 64, 128 or 256MB Addressing: Up to 256 Megabytes CBL-115-4 4ft. Opto rack interface cable Capacity: 168-pin SDRAM supplied and installed CBL-125-1 Floppy Disk Adapter cable by user CBL-173-1 20-pin ribbon to two 9-pin male D connector adapter cable Solid State Disk CBL-225-1 PS/2 mouse adapter cable Capacity: One, 32-pin memory socket supports CBL-236-2 Power cable for the board (unterminated) up to a 128KB of EPROM or up to a ® CBL-234-1 14-pin ribbon to 15-pin D-sub CRT 1GB DiskOnChip adapter cable CBL-247-1 1 ft., Multi-I/O adapter cable Mechanical CBL-249-1 4-pin USB adapter cable Dimensions: 5.75” x 8.0” (146mm x 203mm) CBL-SET-307-1 6 various cables for the EBC-BX Jumpers: 0.025” square posts CK-75176-2 RS-422/485 chip kit for 1 channel PS-80W-1 80 watt power supply WinSystems reserves the right to make changes to products and/or documentation without further notification. 715 Stadium Drive • Arlington, Texas 76011 • (817) 274-7553 • http://www.winsystems.com