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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)
– Implemented with 16550-equivalent controllers with built-in 16-byte FIFO buffers
– On-board generation of RS232C signal levels
– All support either RS232C, RS485, or RS422
– Logged as COM1, COM2, COM3, and COM4 by DOS
– Serial 1/Serial 3 and Serial2/Serial4 share interrupts (IRQs)
! Multi-mode Parallel Port
– Superset of standard LPT printer port
– Bidirectional data lines
– IEEE-1284 (EPP/ECP) compliant
– Standard hardware supports all four IEEE-1284 protocol modes
– Internal 16-byte FIFO buffer
– DMA option for data transfers
! Floppy Disk Controller
– Supports one or two drives
– Reliable digital phase-locked loop circuit
– BIOS supports all standard PC/AT formats: 360K, 1.2M, 720K, and 1.44M
! PCI EIDE Disk Controllers
– PCI bus implementation of Extended IDE (EIDE) hard disk controllers (2)
– Supports up to four hard disk drives.
– Fast ATA-capable interface supports high-speed PIO modes
– BIOS supports drives larger than 528MB through Logical Block Addressing (LBA)
– Supports CompactFlash interface
! PCI Audio Interface
– SoundBlaster™ Pro/16 compatibility
– Trident 4DWAVE-NX controller
– National LM4549 AD97 CODEC
– National LM4863 2W Audio Amplifier
! Flat Panel/CRT Video Controller
– Supports CRTs and flat panel LCDs
– Supports Enhanced AGP Bus Interface
– Uses state-of-the-art 69030 Multimedia Accelerator
– 4MB Embedded 83MHz SDRAM
– MultiView for different/same images on separate displays (LCD with CRT or TV)
– Video modes and resolutions, and memory requirements: See video tables starting on page 3-4.
– Supports interlaced or non-interlaced displays in resolution modes up to 1280x1024.
– Supports True Color at 800x600 VGA resolution
– GUI accelerator for enhanced performance