Inova High Performance CPU board ICP-PII - Manual (Page 13)

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ICP-PIII Product Overview
CompactPCI
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1.01 Interfacing
For maximum communication flexibility, multiple interfaces satisfying different industrial stand-
ards are implemented. LAN applications can take advantage of Inova’s 10BaseT/100BaseTx (dual)
Ethernet implementation or, if high-speed system-level serial interfacing is required, the built-in
400/100 Mbit/s FireWire port is available. Peripherals may be connected to the standard USB or,
as an option, the on-board PCI bus allows support of custom I/O piggybacks conforming to
Inova’s open specification.
The Intel 21554 non-transparent PCI/PCI bridge is utilised for multiprocessing applications equipped
with a Master and Slave CPU in the same system.
1.02 Peripherals
The ICP-PIII supports standard PC peripherals like floppy disk, hard disk and CD ROM. Notebook
style hard disks may be connected directly to the base-board (2-slot) and possess their own front-
panel offering COM ports and PS-2 style connectors for mouse and keyboard.
1.03 Software
The following operating systems have been verified with Inova’s PIII, 3U CompactPCI CPU:
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Linux
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Windows ® NT ® & VenturCom RTX ® (Real-Time Extension)
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Windows ® 2000
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Windows ® CE
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Windows ® 9x
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Windriver VxWorks ®
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QNX ®
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Esmeralda Technology Jbed ® (under development)
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Solaris x86
All readily available application software designed for operation on the standard x86 architecture
will execute without modification.
1.04 Graphics
The Lynx3DM graphic controller is a highly integrated 128-bit GUI (Graphical User Interface)
engine supporting dual independent graphic displays. Screen resolutions up to 1600 x 1200
pixels with 24-bit (True Colour) are supported.
The introduction of the ATI Radeon VE, with its 16MByte video RAM and superior 3D acceleration
& hardware MPEG-2 support, enables screen resolutions up to 2048 x 1536 pixels to be driven.
Dual video and TFT dual-scan/single-scan colour panels are supported with configurable colour
depths. In addition, Inova’s ICP-PIII caters for the needs of the GigaST
Ȣ R, PanelLink™ and LVDS
user.