Ampro Corporation LITTLE BOARD 5001451A - Manual (Page 82)

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On-board Peripherals
This section describes standard peripherals found on every Little Board P6d module.
! 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)
! 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
! 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
! 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
! 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
! 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