EBC-LP SBC with Video EMBEDDED COMPUTERS and 10/100 Ethernet FEATURES ® ® � Intel Low Power Embedded Pentium 166 or 266 MHz CPU � EBX-compliant board � 512KB of pipeline burst L2 cache � 32 to 256MB of system SDRAM supported in 168-pin DIMM ® � Socket for up to 1GB bootable DiskOnChip or BIOS extension EPROM � PC-compatible; uses Intel 430TX chip set � High resolution, video controller supports  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 82559 � 4 RS232 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 � Replaces WinSystems’ EBC-TXPlus-166 � USB supported � Three 16-bit counter timers � Two, dual Ultra DMA/33 EIDE hard drive connectors � Extended Operating Temperature available for � Floppy disk controller supports 1 or 2 drives o o 166 MHz board: -40 C to +85 C � PC/104 and PC/104-Plus expansion connectors � +5 volt only operation � 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) � Two interrupt controllers and 7 DMA channels the recommended SDRAM. They are available from OVERVIEW independent memory suppliers or directly from WinSystems. The board is shipped from the factory The EBC-LP is a feature-rich, Pentium-based single board with no memory installed that permits the user to computer (SBC) for industrial applications. The pow- install and/or upgrade the memory capacity in the field. erful CPU gives engineers a high-performance, cost- effective, and low-power x86 engine for computational- The EBC-LP is shipped with 512KB of onboard demanding, embedded applications. pipelined burst external cache to further improve the performance of the system. A 64K x 64 SRAM is the It is configured with either a 166MHz or 266 MHz CPU cache device that is direct mapped in Write Back mode. with 10/100 Ethernet networking capability, advanced video support, four serial channels, 48 digital I/O lines, BIOS - An industry-standard, Award BIOS is onboard to and the standard AT peripheral feature set. The board provide configuration flexibility, performance and AT- measures only 5.75 x 8.0-inches and is EBX-compliant. compatibility. It is set with a factory default that can be It supports expansion with PC/104 and PC/104-Plus modified by the user. The BIOS is located in an EEPROM connectors or with USB. The 166MHz board does not that can be modified without removing the storage de- require a fan and will operate over an extended tem- vice from the board. It will support diskless, keyboard- perature range that makes it ideal for rugged applica- less, and videoless operation as well as BIOS shadowing. tions requiring an embedded PC. Its PC software com- patibility assures easy program development, and Also BIOS extensions can be programmed into another checkout. EPROM for remote boot from the Ethernet, video exten- sions, etc. This socket is shared with the SSD. FUNCTIONAL CAPABILITY ® Direct Memory Access (DMA) - Seven DMA channels Processor - The EBC-LP is populated with the Intel low ® are supported with Channel 2 dedicated to the floppy power embedded 166 MHz or 266 MHz Pentium ™ disk controller. The LPT is jumper selectable for ECP processor with MMX technology. It provides addi- operation. The other DMA channels are wired to the tional performance and low power for embedded appli- PC/104 connector. cations. Its superscalar architecture can execute two instructions per clock cycle, and its enhanced branch Floppy Disk Support - Up to two 3.5” or 5.25” drives prediction and separate 16KB code and data caches also from 360KB through 1.44MB formats are supported by increases performance. the CMOS 765B floppy disk controller. It has an enhanced advanced digital data separator for different System Controller - An Intel 430TX PCIset is the system data rates, programmable pre-compensation rates, plus controller for this SBC. It consists of the 82439TX underflow and overflow protection. Open drain, push- System Controller (MTXC) and the 82371AB PCI-ISA-IDE pull drivers are wired to a standard, single 34-pin con- Xcelerator. The MTXC provides an integrated solution nector on 0.100-inch centers. Both drives can be daisy for the system controller and data path components for chained from a single cable. a Pentium/K6 processor system. It has the 64-bit Host and SDRAM bus interface, 32-bit/33MHz PCI Bus inter- UDMA/33 EIDE Hard Disk Interface - The EBC-LP face, L2 cache controller, and it integrates the PCI arbiter. incorporates a PCI EIDE local bus interface for inde- pendent timing of up to 4 drives. PIO Mode 4 and Bus The MTXC also implements extensive power manage- Master IDE transfers of up to 14 Mbytes/sec are sup- ment features. The MTXC works with the PIIX4E to pro- ported. Also, it supports Ultra DMA/33 synchronous vide the PCI-to-ISA/IDE bridge functions along with DMA mode transfers up to 33 Mbytes/sec. Both the other features such as a fast IDE interface (PIO mode 4 Primary and Secondary interface channels are wired to and Ultra DMA/33), Plug-n-Play port (PnP), and USB a separate 40-pin header connector on 0.100-inch cen- controller functions. It also provides the core logic that ters. Each channel has an LED that blinks during data makes the board PC/AT software compatible including transfer to provide visual status information. integrated peripheral controllers (two 82C37 DMAs, 82C54 timer, two 82C59 PICs, RTC, and CMOS memory) Solid State Disk (SSD) Support - A JEDEC standard 32- and the ISA bus for PC/104 expansion. pin, machine-tooled socket is provided to accept an M- ® Systems’ DiskOnChip (DOC). The DOC offers from 8 Memory - Up to 256Mbytes of Synchronous Dynamic to 1GB storage capacities in a single device. It includes RAM (SDRAM) can be installed on the board by using a an internal flash file system that provides hard disk 168-pin DIMM. A PC-66 or PC-100 compatible part read/write compatibility, automatic bad block (non-registered, unbuffered) with gold-plated fingers is management, and wear-leveling. A designer can use an Two Megabytes of video memory is on the chip which onboard semiconductor device for applications where is sufficient to support the screen resolutions and maximum the environment is too harsh for mechanical hard disks number of colors displayed required by most applications. or floppy disk drives while offering significant speed advantages. CRT Video Interface - A triple 8-bit integrated RAM- DAC provides CRT support. The CRT video output sig- Ethernet Controller - An Intel 82559 is the 32-bit PCI nals are wired to a 14-pin dual-in-line connector at the Ethernet controller chip used for high-speed data trans- edge of the board. An optional CBL-234-1 interface fer. It has auto negotiation capability for speed, duplex, cable adapts it to a standard female 15-pin “D-Sub” type and flow control. It supports IEEE 802.3 10-BaseT and connector commonly used for VGA. Simultaneous oper- 100BaseT in either full- or half-duplex mode at both 10 ation of the CRT and LCD is supported. and 100 Mbps. In full-duplex mode, it adheres to the IEEE 802.x Flow Control Specification. Flat Panel Display Support - The EBC-LP supports most flat panel display technologies including plasma, elec- Two large 3Kbyte transmit and receive FIFOs help troluminescent (EL), active matrix TFT/MIM prevent data underruns and overruns. It has fast back- LCD, passive STN and single panel, Single Drive (SS). It to-back transmission support with minimum interframe will support mono and color displays. The board prop- spacing. It also has improved dynamic transmit chain- erly sequences the power for logic voltage and the back- ing with multiple priorities transmit queues. There are light inverter to provide intelligent and safe power three LEDs on the board that provide status information. sequencing to the panel. The red LED indicates 100BaseT, the yellow indicates Link, and the green is the Rx/Tx packet data. FP-100 Interface - Since there is not an electrical or mechanical interface standard for flat panels, The 82559 chip is very popular both in the commercial WinSystems has developed a flat panel interface system and industrial PC-compatible market. This means that configuration to work with the different interface sig- most PC-compatible drivers, utilities and 10/100 nals, timing requirements, and connectors that vary Ethernet supported operating systems will work direct- between panel technologies and suppliers. The FP-100 ly with the EBC-LP. The configuration information video bus supports panels up to 24-bits per pixel. It has describing the device’s architecture, address, interrupt, power, timing and control signals for various panel etc. is stored in a serial EEPROM. types. The logic levels are 3.3 volts but are 5.0V tolerant. Also, 4 lines are assigned to allow the EBC-LP to read an Networking - The EBC-LP supports remote booting ID jumper setting on the personality module or cable to with an onboard EPROM socket for use as a diskless net- auto configure the BIOS for the correct panel type. work computer. Optionally, a 64KB Flash can be popu- lated for boot block support. The Intel 82559 is sup- Two, 50-pin, 2-mm connectors are used for the flat ported by numerous network OSs and kernels. panel interface. Most connections can be made direct- ly with a modified cable, others will require a flat panel Video Controller - An Asiliant 69000 high-performance adapter module. Contact a WinSystems factory applica- PCI flat panel/CRT controller provides a sophisticated tion engineer with your specific panel requirements. graphics accelerator video engine. It supports a wide variety of monochrome and color active and passive Software drivers are available with high-resolution dri- LCD panel displays. The 69000 can support up to vers for various software packages including Linux, 16.7M colors on 24-bit, active matrix LCDs. DOS, Windows 98/CE/NT, and certain RTOS applica- Programmable horizontal and vertical stretching capa- tions. A BIOS extension in the onboard EPROM pro- bilities are also available for text and graphics modes for vides PC video compatibility for the various modes of optimal display on 800x600, 1024x768 and 1280x1024 operation for the different panels. Video BIOS modifi- panels. It also has support for 16:9 aspect ratio panels. cations can be made for custom panel types. Resolution Color (bpp) Refresh Rate USB - The Universal Serial Bus offers users simple con- 640 x 480 8 60, 75, 85 nectivity with peripheral devices. This board has a USB 640 x 480 16 60, 75, 85 port that supports transfers at either 1.5 or 12 640 x 480 24 60, 75, 85 Mbits/sec. The USB is wired to a 4-pin connector. An 800 x 600 8 60, 75, 85 optional CBL-249-1 is the interface cable adapter to a 800 x 600 16 60, 75, 85 standard female USB connector. 800 x 600 24 60, 75, 85 1024 x 768 8 60, 75, 85 1024 x 768 16 60, 75, 85 1280 x 1024 8 60 Serial Communications - Four independent, full- 24 ground lines for reduced noise and crosstalk. Also duplex, RS-232 serial asynchronous channels are +5 volts and ground are included in the cable. The onboard. Both the send and receive registers of each pinout is compatible with the industry standard 4 to 24 channel has a 16-byte FIFO. This device is a dual 16C550 position I/O module mounting racks (Opto-22, etc.) for compatible UART that offers software compatibility use with high-level AC and DC opto-isolated solid state with PC-type driver programs. relays. An optional CBL-115-4, 50-pin conductor ribbon cable connects the EBC-LP to one I/O rack. Independent control of transmit, receive, line status and data set interrupts are on all channels. Each channel is Printer Port - The EBC-LP has a parallel port that setup to provide internal diagnostics as loopback and may be operated in standard and bidirectional as well echo mode on the data stream. An independent on-chip as Extended Capabilities Port (ECP - IEEE-1284) and En- software programmable baud rate generator is select- hanced Parallel Port (EPP) modes. The controller chip able from 50 through 115.2 kbits/sec. Individual modem is designed to provide enhanced ESD and latch-up pro- handshake control signals are supported for all channels. tection of up to 4KV/300mA. RS-232 interface levels are supported on all channels. The printer port can also be used as two additional The RS-232 drivers have an on-chip charge pump to general-purpose I/O ports if a printer is not required. generate the plus and minus voltages so that the EBC-LP The first port is configured as 8 input or output only only requires +5 volts to operate. lines. The other port is configured as 5 input and 3 out- put lines. Also RS-422, RS-485 or J1708 electrical levels can be supported on COM1 and COM2 by removing the RS-232 Keyboard/Mouse Controller - An 80C42 equivalent transceivers and installing the optional CK-75176 chip kit. controller supports a PC/AT-compatible keyboard. The optional CBL-247-1 adapter cable provides the mate to All serial channels are configured as Data Terminal a PS/2 type keyboard plug. Equipment (DTE). COM1 and COM2 are wired to a 50- pin connector at the edge of the board. WinSystems A standard mouse controller is on board. Its input is offers the optional CBL-247-1, which adapts each serial accessible through a 5-pin connector. WinSystems’ op- channel to 9-pin male “D” connectors. COM3 and tional CBL-225-1 adapter cable interfaces the mouse COM4 are wired to a 20-pin connector on the board. cable connector to this board. WinSystems offers the optional CBL-173-1, which adapts each serial channel to 9-pin male “D” connectors. Multi-I/O Connector Cable Adapter - WinSystems offers the optional CBL-247-1, Multi-I/O cable adapter 48-line Parallel I/O - The EBC-LP contains a for the COM1, COM2, LPT1 and keyboard. These four highly versatile WS16C48, 48-line digital I/O controller. ports are combined into one 50-pin header at the edge Each I/O line is individually programmable for input, of the board. The CBL-247-1 is a 1-foot adapter cable output, or output with read-back operation. Each out- that offers a more convenient termination. COM1 and put channel is latched and has an open collector driver COM2 are 9-pin male “D” connectors with strain relief. (with a pull-up resistor) capable of sinking 12mA of LPT1 is a 25-pin “D” female socket with strain relief. current. The keyboard is a standard 6-pin PS/2 connector socket. The major feature of this controller is its ability to mon- itor 24 of the lines for both rising and falling digital edge transitions, latch them and then interrupt the host processor notifying that a change-of-input status has occurred. Transition polarity is programmable and enabled on a bit-by-bit basis. Each line’s transition is latched by the event so that even short duration pulses will be recognized. An interrupt ID register is main- tained for each line for writing more efficient Interrupt CBL-247-1 Service Routines. This is an efficient way of signaling the CPU of real-time events without the burden of Interrupts - Two 82C59A compatible interrupt con- polling the digital I/O points. trollers accept inputs from the onboard peripherals and the PC/104 Bus for a total of twelve selectable interrupt The WS16C48 has its I/O lines connected to two, 50-pin sources. Also four PCI interrupt sources are supported connectors. Twenty-four data lines are alternated with on the PC/104-Plus Bus which are PnP compliant. Status LED - A green status LED is also available to mezzanine expansion bus. PC/104 modules are very monitor system activity. Under a user’s program con- compact, measuring only 3.6 x 3.8 inches, and are trol, it can indicate error conditions or blink different offered by WinSystems and a number of third party patterns 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-LP 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-LP 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, Windows98, 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 gen- eration. A beep code is generated that corresponds to Software Developers Kit - WinSystems offers the SDK3- any BIOS error codes (if required) during the power up EBX-280-D software developers kit to provide the nec- or reset sequence essary hardware, software and cables to begin program development with the EBC-LP board. One of the con- Power - Power is supplied via a 9-pin connector. For figurations 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- erance condition, the board is reset. This action is crit- ically important in order to detect brownout or power fail conditions. The reset circuit also ensures that the power is nominal before executing a power-on reset. Battery - A 350 mAH battery supplies the EBC-LP board with standby power for the real time clock and CMOS setup RAM. A power supervisory circuit senses the off- board voltage and automatically switches to internal power when it drops below normal. Standalone Operation - The board can be used as a complete, standalone embedded controller mounted on a flat surface using a set of standoffs. The EBC-LP mea- sures 5.75 x 8.0 inches (146mm x 203mm). PC/104 Expansion - The EBC-LP provides a common computer core from which engineers can add off-the- SDK3-EBC-280 Software Developers Kit shelf or user-designed, application-specific PC/104 modules. PC/104 modules are self-stacking and plug The power supply is an 80-Watt universal switcher that together in a “piggy back” configuration to serve as a will accept input voltages from 85 VAC to 264 VAC. Output voltages are +5 volts at 12A, +12 volts at 3A, and Mechanical -12 volts at 1A. The power supply, floppy disk and hard Dimensions: 5.75” x 8.0” (146mm x 203mm) disk are mounted in a black aluminum enclosure. The Jumpers: 0.025” square posts packaging permits easy access to the board, PC/104 Connectors modules and peripherals during program development. Serial, LPT, Keyboard: 50-pin on 0.100” grid COM3 & 4: 20-pin on 0.100” grid ROM-DOS Developers Kit (RDK) - WinSystems also Floppy Disk Interface: 34-pin on 0.100” grid offers several different Flash-based developers kits for IDE Interface: 40-pin on 0.100” grid those applications that do not need rotational media Parallel I/O: Two, 50-pin on 0.100” grid during development. When you order an EBC-LP along CRT: 14-pin on 2-mm. grid with the RDK of your choice, WinSystems will FP-100 Panel: Two, 50-pin on 2-mm. grid jumper the CPU, program and install the Flash part into Ethernet: RJ-45 your EBC-LP. The RDK includes a PS-80W-1 external PC/104 Bus: 64-pin 0.100” socket power supply, PCM-POST, DiskOnChip Flash memory, 40-pin 0.100” socket ROM-DOS, cables and utility software. For more infor- Power: 9-pin in-line Molex mation contact your factory applications engineer. Mouse: 5-pin in-line Molex SPECIFICATIONS Environmental Operating Temperature: Electrical o o EBC-LP-166 -40 C to +85 C w/o fan EBC-LP CPU Clock: Intel 166 or 266 MHz Intel o o EBC-LP-266 -40 C to +70 C PC/104 Interface: 16-bit, non-stackthrough Non-condensing relative humidity: 5% to 95% PC/104-PLus Interface: 32-bit PCI, non-stackthrough Ethernet data rate: 10/100 megabits per second ORDERING INFORMATION Serial Interface: 4 Serial channels with RS-232 levels RS-422/485 optional using the CK-75176 EBC-LP-166-0 166 MHz Intel Pentium SBC kit on COM1 and COM2 only EBC-LP-266-0 266 MHz Intel Pentium SBC LPT Interface: Bidirectional LPT with ECP/EPP Parallel Interface: 48 I/O lines, TTL compatible For OEM applications, the EBC-LP can be ordered with Output: IOL = 12mA at 0.6 volts the circuitry depopulated. Contact a factory applic- Input: 10K nominal pull-up resistor ations engineer for configuration, price, and delivery UDMA/33 EIDE interface: Supports 4 drives information. Floppy Disk Interface: BIOS supports one or two 360K/720K/1.2M/1.44M drives RDK-EBC-280-xF ROM-DOS Developers Kit Vcc = = +5V ±5% at 2A typ: EBC-LP-166 SDK3-EBC-280 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, or 288MB specification for their current requirements. DIMM168-xxM 168-pin DIMM DRAM where xx = 32, 64, 128 or 256MB System Memory CBL-115-4 4ft. Opto rack interface cable Addressing: Up to 256 Megabytes CBL-125-1 Floppy Disk Adapter cable Capacity: 168-pin SDRAM supplied and installed CBL-173-1 20-pin ribbon to two 9-pin male D by user connector adapter cable External Cache: 512Kbytes CBL-225-1 PS/2 mouse adapter cable CBL-236-2 Power cable for the board (unterminated) Solid State Disk CBL-234-1 14-pin ribbon to 15-pin D-sub CRT Capacity: One, 32-pin memory socket supports adapter cable up to a 128KB of EPROM or up to a CBL-247-1 1 ft., Multi-I/O adapter cable ® 1GB DiskOnChip CBL-249-1 4-pin USB adapter cable CBL-SET-280-1 6 various cables for the EBC-LP CK-75176-2 RS-422/485 chip kit for 1 channel PS-80W-1 80 watt power supply 715 Stadium Drive • Arlington, Texas 76011 • (817) 274-7553 • http://www.winsystems.com