Ampro Corporation 5001451A User Manual

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This section describes standard peripherals found on every Little Board P6d module.

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Four buffered serial ports (Two with full handshaking)

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Implemented with 16550-equivalent controllers with built-in 16-byte FIFO buffers

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On-board generation of RS232C signal levels

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All support either RS232C, RS485, or RS422

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Logged as COM1, COM2, COM3, and COM4 by DOS

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Serial 1/Serial 3 and Serial2/Serial4 share interrupts (IRQs)

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Multi-mode Parallel Port

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Superset of standard LPT printer port

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Bidirectional data lines

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IEEE-1284 (EPP/ECP) compliant

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Standard hardware supports all four IEEE-1284 protocol modes

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Internal 16-byte FIFO buffer

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DMA option for data transfers

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Floppy Disk Controller

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Supports one or two drives

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Reliable digital phase-locked loop circuit

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BIOS supports all standard PC/AT formats: 360K, 1.2M, 720K, and 1.44M

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PCI EIDE Disk Controllers

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PCI bus implementation of Extended IDE (EIDE) hard disk controllers (2)

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Supports up to four hard disk drives.

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Fast ATA-capable interface supports high-speed PIO modes

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BIOS supports drives larger than 528MB through Logical Block Addressing (LBA)

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Supports CompactFlash interface

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PCI Audio Interface

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SoundBlaster™ Pro/16 compatibility

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Trident 4DWAVE-NX controller

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National LM4549 AD97 CODEC

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National LM4863 2W Audio Amplifier

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Flat Panel/CRT Video Controller

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Supports CRTs and flat panel LCDs

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Supports Enhanced AGP Bus Interface

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Uses state-of-the-art 69030 Multimedia Accelerator

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4MB Embedded 83MHz SDRAM

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MultiView for different/same images on separate displays (LCD with CRT or TV)

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Video modes and resolutions, and memory requirements: See video tables starting on page 3-4.

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Supports interlaced or non-interlaced displays in resolution modes up to 1280x1024.

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Supports True Color at 800x600 VGA resolution

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GUI accelerator for enhanced performance