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Serial ports, Real time clock, System monitoring – IEI Integration NANO-LX v1.00 User Manual

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2.8 Serial

Ports

The NANO-LX CPU Board has five high-speed UART serial ports, configured as COM2,

COM3, COM4, COM5 and COM6. The serial ports have the following specifications.

16C550 UART with 16/32 byte selectable FIFO buffer

115.2Kbps transmission rate

2.9

Real Time Clock

256-byte battery backed CMOS RAM

2.10 System

Monitoring

The NANO-LX CPU card is capable of self-monitoring various aspects of its operating

status including:

CPU, chipset, and battery voltage, +3.3V, +5V, and +12V

CPU and board temperatures (by the corresponding embedded sensors)

2.11 Infrared Data Association (IrDA) Interface

The NANO-LX CPU Board IrDA supports the following interfaces.

Serial Infrared (SIR)

Shift Keyed Infrared (ASKIR)

If you want to use the IrDA port, you have to configure SIR or ASKIR mode in the BIOS

under Super IO devices. The normal RS-232 COM 2 will then be disabled.

2.12 BIOS

The NANO-LX uses a licensed copy of Phoenix Award BIOS. The features of the flash

BIOS used are listed below:

SMIBIOS (DMI) compliant

Console redirection function support

PXE (Pre-Boot Execution Environment ) support

USB booting support