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Ampro Corporation 420 User Manual

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Chapter 2

Product Overview

CoreModule 420

Reference Manual

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• Compact Flash Socket

Provides compact flash socket (Type I or II)

Supports IDE compact flash cards

Attached to Secondary IDE bus

• Floppy Disk Controller

Provides shared floppy/parallel port connector

Supports two floppy drives

Supports all standard PC/AT formats: 360 kB, 1.2 MB, 720 kB, 1.44 MB, 2.88 MB

• Serial Ports

Provides four buffered RS-232 serial ports with full handshaking and modem capability

Provides 16550 (or 16540-equivalent) UARTs, each with a built-in 16-byte FIFO buffer

Supports RS-232 or RS-485 operation on ports 1 and 2

Supports programmable word length, stop bits, and parity

Supports 16-bit programmable baud-rate generator and a interrupt generator

• Parallel Port

Provides shared parallel/floppy port connector

Supports standard printer port

Supports IEEE standard 1284 protocols, including EPP, ECP modes

Provides bidirectional data lines

Supports 16 byte FIFO for ECP mode

• Ethernet Controller

Intel 82559ER Controller chip

Supports IEEE 802.3 10BaseT/100BaseT compatible physical layer

Supports Auto-negotiation for speed, duplex mode, and flow control

Supports full duplex or half-duplex mode

Full-duplex mode supports transmit and receive frames simultaneously

Supports IEEE 802.3x Flow control in full duplex mode

Half-duplex mode supports enhanced proprietary collision reduction mode

• Utility Interface

Keyboard and PS/2 Mouse Interface

Supports external battery for Real Time Clock operation

Supports standard external 8

speaker interface

Supports external reset switch

• USB Ports

Provides one root USB hub

Provides one USB port

Supports USB v1.1 and Universal OHCI v1.1