PPM-TX Pentium SBC PC/104-Plus MODULE with 10/100 Ethernet FEATURES z 166 or 266 MHz Intel Pentium MMX CPU z PC/104-Plus-compliant board z 32 to 256MB of system SDRAM supported in a 144-pin SODIMM socket z Socket for bootable DiskOnChip® or BIOS extension EPROM z PC-compatible; uses Intel 430TX chip set z 10/100 Mbps Ethernet using Intel 82551ER z 4 RS232 serial ports with 16 byte FIFOs z Bi-directional LPT port supports EPP/ECP z USB supported z Ultra DMA/33 EIDE hard drive supported z Floppy disk controller supports 1 or 2 drives z PC/104 and PC/104-Plus expansion connectors z AT keyboard controller and PS/2 mouse support z Activity LEDs onboard z Two interrupt controllers and 7 DMA channels z Three 16-bit counter timers z Extended operating temperature available for It is binary compatible with the 8088/86, 80286, 166 MHz board from -40°C to +85°C 80386DX/SX and 80486DX2/DX4 processors. z +5 volt only operation z Upgrade for WinSystems' PPM-520 The data bus is 64-bits wide to improve the data transfer z Real Time Clock, WDT and power fail reset rate. Burst read and burst writeback cycles are supported z Small size: 3.6" x 3.8" (90mm x 96mm) in the processor along with bus cycle pipelining. This allows two bus cycles to be in progress simultaneously. The PPM-TX is a feature-rich, Pentium® MMX-based sin- gle board computer (SBC) for networked industrial The pipelined floating point unit is up to 10 times faster applications. The powerful CPU provides engineers than the one in the Intel486 for common operations with a high-performance, low-power and PC-compatible including add, multiply, and load. engine in a small size for deeply embedded applications. The 166 MHz Pentium is packaged in a 352 pin HL- It is configured with either a 166 or 266 MHz CPU with PBGA that allows the board to operate without a fan 10/100 Ethernet networking capability, four serial chan- and as well as at extended temperatures. nels, and standard AT peripheral feature set. The board measures only 3.6 x 3.8-inches (90 x 96 mm) and is System Controller - An Intel 430TX PCIset is the sys- PC/104-compliant. It supports expansion with the tem controller for this SBC. It consists of the 82439TX PC/104 and PC/104-Plus connectors plus USB support. System Controller (MTXC) and the 82371AB PCI-ISA- IDE Xcelerator (PIIX4). The MTXC provides an inte- The 166 MHz board does not require a fan and will oper- grated solution for the system controller and data path ate over an extended temperature range that makes it components for a Pentium processor system. It has the ideal for rugged applications requiring an embedded PC. 64-bit Host and SDRAM Bus interface, 32-bit/33 MHz Its PC software compatibility assures easy program PCI Bus interface, and the PCI arbiter. The MTXC development, and checkout. works with the PIIX4 to provide the PCI-to-ISA/IDE bridge functions along with other features such as a fast FUNCTIONAL CAPABILITY IDE interface (PIO mode 4 and Ultra DMA/33), Plug-n- Play port, and USB controller functions. It also provides Processor - An Intel 166 or 266 MHz "Tillamook" low the core logic that makes the board PC/AT software TM power Pentium with MMX technology is soldered compatible including integrated peripheral controllers directly to the board. The MMX technology enables (two 82C37 DMAs, 82C54 timer, two 82C59 PICs, RTC, increased performance for communications applications. and CMOS memory) and the ISA bus for PC/104 expansion. controller. The LPT is plug and play configurable. The other DMA channels are wired to the PC/104 connectors. Interrupts - Two 82C59A compatible interrupt con- trollers accept inputs from the onboard peripherals and the PC/104 and PC/104-Plus Bus connectors. Floppy Disk Support - Up to two 3.5" or 5.25" drives from 360KB through 1.44MB formats are supported by the floppy disk controller. Two drives can be daisy chained on a single cable. UDMA/33 EIDE Hard Disk Interface - The PPM-TX incorporates a PCI EIDE local bus interface for inde- pendent timing of up to 2 drives. PIO Mode 4 and Bus Master IDE transfers of up to 14 Mbytes/sec are sup- ported. Also, it supports Ultra DMA/33 synchronous DMA mode transfers up to 33 Mbytes/sec. An LED blinks automatically while data is transferred to provide visual status information. Solid State Disk (SSD) Support - A 32-pin, machine- tooled socket is provided to accept an M-Systems' DiskOnChip® (DOC). The DOC offers from 16MB to 1GB PPM-TX BLOCK DIAGRAM storage capacities in a single device. It includes an inter- Cache - The Pentium® processor includes separate nal flash file system that provides hard disk read/write code and data caches integrated on-chip to meet per- compatibility, automatic bad block management, and formance goals. Each cache has a 32-byte line size and is wear-leveling. A designer can use an onboard semicon- 4-way associative. The caches can be enabled or disabled. ductor device for applications where the environment is too harsh for mechanical hard disks or floppy disk dri- Memory - Up to 256 Mbytes of Synchronous Dynamic ves while offering significant speed advantages. RAM (SDRAM) can be installed on the board by using a 144-pin SODIMM. A PC-66 or PC-100 compatible part Ethernet Controller - An Intel 82551ER is the 32-bit (non-registered, unbuffered) with gold plated fingers is PCI Ethernet controller chip used for high-speed data the recommended SDRAM. They are available directly transfer. It has auto negotiation capability for speed, from WinSystems. The board is shipped from the fac- duplex, and flow control. It supports IEEE 802.3 10- tory with no memory installed. This permits the user BaseT and 100BaseT in either full- or half-duplex mode to either install and/or upgrade the memory capacity in at both 10 and 100 Mbps. In full-duplex mode, it the field. adheres to the IEEE 802.x Flow Control Specification. BIOS - An industry-standard, Award BIOS is on the Two large 3Kbyte transmit and receive FIFOs help pre- board to provide configuration flexibility, performance vent data underruns and overruns. It has fast back-to- and AT-compatibility. It is set with a factory default back transmission support with minimum interframe that can be modified by the user. The BIOS is located spacing. It also has improved dynamic transmit chain- in an EEPROM that can be modified without removing ing with multiple priorities transmit queues. There are the storage device from the board. It will support disk- three LEDs on the board that provide status informa- less, keyboardless, and videoless operation as well as tion. The red LED indicates 100BaseT, the yellow indi- BIOS shadowing. cates Link, and the green is the Rx/Tx packet data. Also BIOS extensions can be programmed into another The 82551ER chip is very popular both in the commer- EPROM for remote boot from the Ethernet, video cial and industrial PC-compatible market. This means extensions, etc. This socket is shared with the SSD. that most PC-compatible drivers, utilities and 10/100 Ethernet supported operating systems will work direct- Direct Memory Access (DMA) - Seven DMA channels ly with the PPM-TX. The configuration information are supported with Channel 2 dedicated to the floppy disk describing the device's architecture, address, interrupt, etc. is stored in a serial EEPROM. COM3, and COM2 are 9-pin male "D" with strain relief. USB - The Universal Serial Bus (USB) offers users con- LPT1 is a 25-pin "D" female socket with strain relief. A nectivity with peripheral devices. The USB port sup- standard 6-pin mini-DIN female PS/2 connector is for ports transfers at either 1.5 or 12 Mbits/sec. the keyboard. A mouse plugs into a 6-position PS/2 socket. Reset is a simple 2-wire push button. The Serial Communications - Four independent, full- 10/100 Ethernet is terminated in a RJ-45 female socket duplex, RS-232 serial asynchronous channels are onboard. All serial channels are configured as Data CBL-252-1 is a 1-foot long multi-drive cable for the flop- Terminal Equipment (DTE). Both the send and receive py disk drives and IDE hard disk drives plus USB. The registers of each channel has a 16-byte FIFO. This floppy disk portion is terminated in a 34-pin socket on device is a dual 16C550 compatible UART that offers 0.100" centers that can plugged directly into a drive. software compatibility with PC-type driver programs. The IDE cable is terminated into a 40-pin socket on 0.100" centers that can be plugged directly into a drive. Independent control of transmit, receive, line status and data set interrupts are on all channels. Each chan- Status LED - A green status LED is also available to mon- nel is setup to provide internal diagnostics such as loop- itor system activity. Under a user's program control, it back and echo mode on the data stream. An indepen- can indicate error conditions or blink different patterns dent on-chip software programmable baud rate genera- to provide a visual indication of system status. tor is selectable from 50 through 115.2 kbits/sec. Individual modem handshake control signals are sup- Real Time Clock - An MC146818A-compatible clock ported for all channels. supports a number of features including periodic and alarm interrupt capabilities. In addition to the time and RS-232 interface levels are supported on all channels. date keeping functions, the system configuration is kept The RS-232 drivers have an on-chip charge pump to in CMOS RAM contained within the clock section. generate the plus and minus voltages so that the PPM- TX only requires +5 volts to operate. Watchdog Timer - A software/hardware enabled, re- triggerable watchdog timer is provided. This timer Line Printer Port - The PPM-TX has a parallel port that must be updated at least once every 1.5 seconds other- may be operated in standard (SPP) bi-directional as well wise a failure is assumed and the board will be reset. as Extended Capabilities Port (ECP - IEEE-1284) and This circuit is important for use in remote and unat- Enhanced Parallel Port (EPP) modes. The output dri- tended applications. vers can support 14mA per line. Timers - Three, independent 82C54 compatible 16-bit The printer port can also be used as two additional gen- timers are supported. eral-purpose I/O ports if a printer is not required. The first port can be configured as 8 input or output only Power - Power is supplied via a 8-pin Molex connector. lines. The other port configured as 5 input and 3 out- Both ±12 volts are wired directly to the PC/104 con- put lines. nector and not used by the PPM-TX. Keyboard/Mouse Controller - An 80C42-type con- Reset - A precision voltage monitors the +5 volt status. troller supports a PC/AT-compatible keyboard. Addi- Upon detection of an out-of-tolerance condition, the tionally, a standard PS/2 mouse is supported by the PPM-TX. board is reset. This action is critically important in order to detect brownout or power fail conditions. The I/O Access - Connector space is limited on the PPM-TX reset circuit also ensures that the power is nominal because of its high I/O content. The USB is wired to a before executing a power-on reset. 10-pin header on 0.100" centers. Two, 80-pin, 2mm connectors access the disk controllers, serial channels, Battery - A 350 mAH battery supplies the PPM-TX board LPT port, mouse, keyboard, Ethernet, reset and LED sig- with standby power for the real time clock and CMOS nals. WinSystems offers two optional cables that break- setup RAM. A power supervisory circuit senses the off- out the signals into individual connectors for each I/O board voltage and automatically switches to internal function. power when it drops below normal. CBL-251-1 is a 1 foot long, multi-I/O cable for COM1 PC/104 Expansion - The PPM-TX has both a 16-bit through COM4, LPT1, push button reset, PS/2 mouse, PC/104 and a 32-bit PC/104-Plus, stackthrough or non- Ethernet, and keyboard controllers. COM1, COM2, stackthrough, connector. PC/104 is the ISA bus and SPECIFICATIONS PC/104-Plus is the PCI bus for I/O functions requiring higher data transfer speeds. Electrical PPM-TX CPU Clock: 166 or 266 MHz Pentium® MMX The PPM-TX provides a common computer core from PC/104 Interface: 16-bit stackthrough or which engineers can add off-the-shelf or user-designed, non-stackthrough application-specific PC/104 modules. PC/104 modules PC/104-Plus Interface: 32-bit PCI stackthrough or are self-stacking and plug together in a "piggy back" con- non-stackthrough figuration to serve as a mezzanine expansion bus. Serial Interface: 4 Serial channels with PC/104 modules are very compact, measuring only 3.6 RS-232 levels x 3.8 inches, and are offered by WinSystems and a num- LPT Interface: Bidirectional LPT with ECP/EPP ber of third party companies worldwide. Module func- UDMA/33 EIDE interface: Supports 2 drives tions include specialty serial I/O, digital I/O, network- Floppy Disk Interface: BIOS supports one or two ing, GPS, modem, audio, SCSI, etc. 360K/720K/1.2M/1.44M drives Vcc = +5V ± 5% at 1.5A typ: PPM-TX-166-32M Vcc = +5V ± 5% at 1.9A typ: PPM-TX-266-32M System Memory Addressing: Up to 256 Megabytes Capacity: 144-pin SODIMM; SDRAM supplied and installed by the user Solid State Disk Capacity: One 32-pin memory socket supports up to a 1GB DiskOnChip® Mechanical PC/104-Plus Module Stack Dimensions: 3.6" x 3.8" (90mm x 96mm) SOFTWARE SUPPORT Jumpers: 0.020" square posts on 2mm centers Software - The PPM-TX is designed to run both 16-bit and 32-bit x86-instruction set software. It is compatible Connectors with Microsoft's Windows® operating systems, such as Serial, Parallel, Mouse, WindowsCE, Windows98, WindowsNT, and Windows Keyboard, and Reset: 80-pin, 2 mm NTE as well as the applications that run on them. It also Floppy , IDE, & USB: 80-pin, 2 mm supports Linux and other PC-compatible x86 operating PC/104 Bus: 64-pin, 0.100" systems such as QNX and VxWorks.. It will also run 40-pin, 0.100" other real-time executives that require a "PC-AT" hard- PC/104-Plus: 120-pin (4 x 30, 2 mm) ware environment. Power: 8-pin in-line Molex Software Developers Kit - WinSystems offers the sys- Environmental tem developers kits to provide the necessary hardware, Operating Temperature (with no fan): software and cables to begin program development PPM-TX-166 -40°C to +85°C with the PPM-TX board. System developers kits are PPM-TX-266 -40°C to +60°C available for ROM-DOS, Sockets, Linux, Windows XPe, and Windows CE. Please contact your application engi- Non-condensing relative humidity: 5% to 95% neer for details of the different kits. ORDERING INFORMATION PPM-TX-166-0 166 MHz Intel Pentium SBC CBL-174-1 18 inch, 8-wire power cable PPM-TX-166-0-ST Stackthrough configuration CBL-251-1 1 foot, Multi-I/O cable PPM-TX-266-0 266 MHz Intel Pentium SBC CBL-252-1 1 foot, Multi-disk cable PPM-TX-266-0-ST Stackthrough configuration CBL-SET-302-1 Cable set includes CBL-174-1, SDK2-PPM-302-D Software Developers Kit CBL-251-1,CBL-252-1, and FLASH-MD2200-Dxx DiskOnChip®; where xx = ADP-USB storage capacities from PS-80W-1 80 Watt power supply 16MB to 1GB SODIMM144-xxM 144-pin SDRAM where xx = WinSystems reserves the right to make changes to products 64, 128, or 256MB and/or documentation without further notification. ADP-USB USB adapter 715 Stadium Drive • Arlington, Texas 76011  (817) 274-7553  http://www.winsystems.com