ROCKY-318

386SX SBC
User Manual Version 1.1
September 18, 2003

Copyright 2003 by ICP Electronics Inc. All Rights Reserved.

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 Table of Contents

1 Introduction .................................................................. 4
1.1 Specifications ....................................................................................5
1.2 Package Contents ..............................................................................6
2 Installation.................................................................... 7
2.1 ROCKY-318 Layout.............................................................................7
2.2 CPU Operation Speed Setting ..............................................................7
2.3 System Memory DRAM .......................................................................9
2.4 Watchdog Timer ................................................................................9
2.5 Single 5V Operation ......................................................................... 10
2.6 DiskOnChip™ Flash Disk ................................................................... 10
2.7 Parallel Port Interface ....................................................................... 11
3 Connection .................................................................. 12
3.1 Floppy Disk Drive Connector.............................................................. 12
3.2 IDE Disk Drive Connector.................................................................. 13
3.3 Parallel Port .................................................................................... 14
3.4 Serial Ports ..................................................................................... 15
3.5 Keyboard Connector ......................................................................... 16
3.6 External Switches and Indicators........................................................ 17
3.7 External Power Connector ................................................................. 18
3.8 External Speaker ............................................................................. 19
3.9 PC/104 Connection Bus .................................................................... 19
4 AMI BIOS Setup........................................................... 20
4.1 Getting Started................................................................................ 20
4.2 Standard CMOS Setup ...................................................................... 20
4.3 Advanced CMOS Setup ..................................................................... 21
Appendix A E2 Key™ Function ............................................ 22
Appendix B Watchdog Timer.............................................. 23

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1 Introduction

Thank you for choosing ROCKY-318 386SX Single Board Computer. ROCKY-318 is

an ISA with PC/104 form factor board, equipped with ALI 6117 (including 386SX

CPU) and advanced high-performance multi-mode I/O, designed for system

manufacturers, integrators, or VARs that want to provide reliable and quality

performance at a reasonable price.

An advanced high performance super AT I/O chip SMC FDC37C665 or equivalent

chip is used in the ROCKY-318 board. Both on-chip UARTs are compatible with

the NS16C550. The parallel port and IDE interface are compatible with IBM

PC/AT and XT architecture's, as well as EPP and ECP. The FDC37C665

incorporates sophisticated power control circuitry (PCC). The PCC supports

multiple low power down modes.

The most outstanding feature in the ROCKY-318 is built-in PC/104 expansion bus.

Based on the PC/104 bus, you can easily install over thousands of PC/104

modules from hundreds of vendors in the world. ROCKY-318 has external power

connector that can connect to power supply directly. It is more suitable for your

standalone applications.

In addition, ROCKY-318 provides one 72-pin SIMM (Single In-line Memory Module)

socket to install a maximum of 32MB memory (single side RAM). The board is

also designed with 1MB DRAM on board for OEM customer.

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1.1 Specifications

ROCKY-318 386SX Single Board Computer provides the following specifications:

Field Description
System CPU: ALI 6117,includes 386SX CPU
DMA channels: 7
Interrupt levels: 15
Real-time clock/calendar: DS12887/BQ3287 or
equivalent chip and quartz oscillator, 128B CMOS
memory, powered by lithium battery for over 10 years of
data retention.
Memory RAM memory: 512KB to 32MB, only supports single
side SIMM.
Shadow RAM memory: C0000h ~ DFFFFh
System BIOS: 0E0000h ~ 0FFFFFh
Input/Output IDE hard disk drive interface: Supports up to two IDE
hard disk drives. Can be disabled by BIOS Setup.

Floppy disk drive interface: Supports two 2.88 MB,

1.44MB, 1.2MB, 720KB, or 360KB floppy disk drives.
Can be disabled by BIOS Setup.

Two high-speed Series ports: NS16C550 compatible

UARTs with send/receive 16-byte FIFOs, data rates are
independently programmable from 115.2K baud down to
50 baud. Modem control circuitry.

Multi-mode Parallel Port:

Standard mode - IBM PC/XT, PC/AT, PS/2 compatible bi-
directional parallel port.

Enhanced mode - Enhanced parallel port (EPP)

compatible with IEEE 1284 specification.

High-speed mode - Microsoft and Hewlett Packard

extended capabilities port (ECP), compatible with IEEE

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 1248 specification.

Industrial Features Watchdog timer: Can be set by 1,2,10,20,110,or 220

seconds period. Reset or NMI was generated when CPU
did not periodically trigger the timer. Your program uses
hex 043 and 443 to control the Watchdog and generate
a system reset.

PC/104 expansion bus: A 64-pin and 40-pin,

industrial embedded-PC bus standard.

External power connector: 8-pin male connector

(Molex 6410 series compatible).

Keyboard connector: A 5-pin header on board and 6-

pin mini-DIN keyboard connector is located on the
mounting bracket.

General Power Consumption: +5V @ 0.9A (40MHz, 4MB RAM).

Operating Temperature: 0° ~ 60° C (CPU needs
Cooler).

Humidity: 5% ~ 95%, non-condense.

Dimension: 180mm(W) x 122mm(L), standard AT form

factor.

1.2 Package Contents

ROCKY-318 package includes the following items:

a. ROCKY-318 386SX Single Board Computer x 1

b. Printer Cable x 1
c. FDD/HDD Cable x 1
d. User Manual x 1

If any of these items is missing or damaged, contact the dealer from whom you

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purchase the product. Save the shipping materials and carton in case you want
to ship or store the product in the future.

2 Installation

This chapter describes how to install the ROCKY-318. The layout of ROCKY-318 is
shown on the next page. The jumpers and switches setting for the ROCKY-318's
configuration, such as CPU type selection, system clock setting, and interrupt IRQ
setting for serial ports and parallel port, are also included.

2.1 ROCKY-318 Layout

2.2 CPU Operation Speed Setting

• JP11: CPU Speed Setting:

The system clock is generated by the AV9107-3, and the different CPU clock
frequency can be selected by JP11 and shown as following table:

JP11 1-2 3-4

25MHz CLOSE CLOSE

33Mhz OPEN OPEN

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40MHz CLOSE OPEN

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2.3 System Memory DRAM

The system DRAM on board is divided into two banks, bank 0 and 1. The Bank 0
is the on board optional 2/4MB DRAM. Bank 1 is the one 72-pin SIMM. Based on
the chipset function the 72-pin SIMM only support single side DRAM. There have
two jumpers for the related setting.

• JP13/14: 2/4MB DRAM and 72-pin SIMM Selection

Function JP13 JP14
On Board 2/4MB CLOSE CLOSE
72-pin SIMM OPEN OPEN

2.4 Watchdog Timer

Watchdog Timer is enabled by reading port 443H. It should be triggered before

the time-out period ends, otherwise it will assume the program operation is
abnormal and will issue a reset signal to start again, or activate NMI to CPU.
Watchdog Timer is disabled by reading port 043H. The time-out period can be
set as 1, 2, 10, 20,110 or 220 seconds by jumper JP8.

• JP1: Watch-Dog Active Type Setting

JP1 Description

2-3 RESET WHEN WDT TIME-OUT

1-2 ACTIVATE NMI TO CPU WHEN WDT TIME-OUT
OPEN DISABLE WDT

• JP8: WDT Time-out Period

JP8 1-2 3-4 5-6 7-8

1 sec OPEN OPEN CLOSE OPEN

2 sec OPEN OPEN CLOSE CLOSE
10 sec OPEN CLOSE OPEN OPEN
20 sec OPEN CLOSE OPEN CLOSE
110 sec CLOSE OPEN OPEN OPEN
220 sec CLOSE OPEN OPEN CLOSE

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2.5 Single 5V Operation

ROCKY-318 allows single 5V supply for RS-232 operation or use +/-12V from PC
power supply. To use single 5V operation, enable the onboard 5V to +/-12V
converter for the RS-232 +/-12V need.

Function JP5 JP12

5V operation 1-2 1-2

+/-12V need 2-3 2-3

2.6 DiskOnChip™ Flash Disk

The DiskOnChip™ Flash Disk Chip (DOC) is produced by M-Systems. The DOC
(MD-2200-xMB) is 32-pin DIP package. It is 100% compatible to hard disk and
DOS. Customer doesn‘t need any extra software utility. It is just “plug and play”,
easy and reliable. Right now the DOC is available in 2MB to 72MB capacity. A
PROMDISK-Chip™ also can be used with the same socket.

• JP7: DiskOnChip™ Memory Address Setting

Address 1-2 3-4 5-6 7-8 9-10

C8000 CLOSE OPEN OPEN OPEN OPEN
D0000 OPEN CLOSE OPEN OPEN OPEN
D8000 OPEN OPEN CLOSE OPEN OPEN
E0000 OPEN OPEN OPEN CLOSE OPEN
E8000 OPEN OPEN OPEN OPEN CLOSE

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2.7 Parallel Port Interface

ROCKY-318 allows installation of up to three different I/O ports. These three

ports are called: LTP1, LTP2, LTP3 with port address at 3BCH~3BEH, 378H~37FH
and 278H~27FH, respectively.

• JP3: Parallel Port Data Request Setting

JP3 Description

1-2 DRQ1
2-3 DRQ3

• JP2: Parallel Data Acknowledge for ECP Mode

JP2 Description

1-2 DACK1
2-3 DACK3

• JP3: Parallel Port Mode Select

JP4 Description

3-5 CLOSE
SPP, EPP
4-6 CLOSE
1-3 CLOSE
ECP+EPP
2-4 CLOSE

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3 Connection

This chapter describes how to connect peripherals, switches and indicators to the
ROCKY-318 board. You can access most of the connectors from the top of the
board while it is installed in the chassis.

3.1 Floppy Disk Drive Connector

ROCKY-318 board is equipped with a 34-pin daisy-chain driver connector cable.

The detailed pin assignment of the connector is specified as following table:

• CN5: FDC Connector

PIN Description PIN Description

1 GROUND 2 REDUCE WRITE CURRENT#

3 GROUND 4 N/C
5 GROUND 6 N/C
7 GROUND 8 INDEX#
9 GROUND 10 MOTOR ENABLE A#
11 GROUND 12 DRIVE SELECT B#
13 GROUND 14 DRIVE SELECT A#
15 GROUND 16 MOTOR ENABLE B#
17 GROUND 18 DIRECTION#
19 GROUND 20 STEP#
21 GROUND 22 WRITE DATA#
23 GROUND 24 WRITE GATE#
25 GROUND 26 TRACK 0#
27 GROUND 28 WRITE PROTECT#
29 GROUND 30 READ DATA#
31 GROUND 32 SIDE 1 SELECT#
33 GROUND 34 DISK CHANGE#

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3.2 IDE Disk Drive Connector

You can attach two IDE (Integrated Device Electronics) hard disk drives to the
ROCKY-318 internal controller. The board is equipped with a 40-pin flat-cable
connector. The detailed pin assignment of the connector is specified as following
table:

• CN4: IDE Interface Connector

PIN Description PIN Description

1 RESET# 2 GROUND
3 DATA 7 4 DATA 8
5 DATA 6 6 DATA 9
7 DATA 5 8 DATA 10
9 DATA 4 10 DATA 11
11 DATA 3 12 DATA 12
13 DATA 2 14 DATA 13
15 DATA 1 16 DATA 14
17 DATA 0 18 DATA 15
19 GROUND 20 N/C
21 N/C 22 GROUND
23 IOW# 24 GROUND
25 IOR# 26 GROUND
27 N/C 28 BALE - DEFAULT
29 N/C 30 GROUND - DEFAULT
31 INTERRUPT 32 IOCS16#-DEFAULT
33 SA1 34 N/C
35 SA0 36 SA2
37 HDC CS0# 38 HDC CS1#
39 HDD ACTIVE# 40 GROUND

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3.3 Parallel Port

This port is usually connected to a printer. ROCKY-318 includes an on-board

parallel port, accessed through a 26-pin flat-cable connector CN11. The detailed
pin assignment of the connector is specified as following table:

• CN11: Parallel Port Connector

PIN Description PIN Description

1 STROBE# 2 DATA 0
3 DATA 1 4 DATA 2
5 DATA 3 6 DATA 4
7 DATA 5 8 DATA 6
9 DATA 7 10 ACKNOWLEDGE
11 BUSY 12 PAPER EMPTY
13 PRINTER SELECT 14 AUTO FORM FEED #
15 ERROR# 16 INITIALIZE
17 PRINTER SELECT LN# 18 GROUND
19 GROUND 20 GROUND
21 GROUND 22 GROUND
23 IOW# 24 GROUND
25 GROUND

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3.4 Serial Ports

ROCKY-318 offers two high speed NS16C550 compatible UARTs with

Read/Receive 16 byte FIFO serial ports. These ports let you connect to serial
devices or a communication network. Two DB-9 connectors are provides by
ROCKY-318. The detailed pin assignment of the connectors are specified as
following tables:

• CN12 & CN10: Serial Port Connector (ACE0 & ACE1)

PIN Description

1 DATA CARRIER DETECT (DCD)

2 RECEIVE DATA (RXD)
3 TRANSMIT DATA (TXD)
4 DATA TERMINAL READY (DTR)
5 GROUND (GND)
6 DATA SET READY (DSR)
7 REQUEST TO SEND (RTS)
8 CLEAR TO SEND (CTS)
9 RING INDICATOR (RI)

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3.5 Keyboard Connector

ROCKY-318 provides two keyboard connectors. A 5-pin header connector CN3

supports passive backplane applications. Another one is a 6-pin Mini-DIN
connector CN13 on the board-mounting bracket for single board computer
applications. The detailed pin assignment of the connector is specified as
following table:

• CN3: 5-pin Header Keyboard Connector

PIN Description

1 KEYBOARD CLOCK
2 KEYBOARD DATA
3 N/C
4 GROUND
5 +5V

• CN13: 6-pin Mini-DIN Keyboard Connector

PIN Description

1 KEYBOARD DATA
2 N/C
3 GROUND
4 +5V
5 KEYBOARD CLOCK
6 N/C

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3.6 External Switches and Indicators

There are many external switches and indicators for monitoring and controlling
your CPU board. These features are completely optional install them if you need
them. The detailed pin assignment of the connectors is specified as following
table:

• CN2: Reset Button

PIN Description

1 EXTERNAL RESET
2 GROUND

• CN14: IDE LED Connector

PIN Description

1 +5V
2 HDD ACTIVE#

• CN8: POWER LED & KEYLOCK

PIN Description

1 POWER LED ANODE

2 KEY
3 GROUND
4 KEYLOCK
5 GROUND

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3.7 External Power Connector

ROCKY-318 has an on-board external power connector CN7. You can connect
power directly to the CPU board for some single-board-computer (without passive
backplane) application.

• CN7: External Power Connector

PIN Description

1 +5V
2 +12V
3 -12V
4 GROUND
5 GROUND
6 -5V
7 +12V
8 +5V

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3.8 External Speaker

ROCKY-318 has its own buzzer. You also can connect to the external speaker
through the connector CN1.

• CN1: Speaker
PIN Description

1 SPEAKER SIGNAL
2 GROUND

3.9 PC/104 Connection Bus

The PC/104 expansion bus of ROCKY-318 let yous attach any kind of PC/104
modules. The PC/104 bus has already become the industrial embedded PC bus
standard, so you can easily install over thousands of PC/104 modules from
hundreds of venders in the world.

Note: ROCKY-318 allows direct plug in PC/104 module, PC/104 connection Kit is
not needed.

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4 AMI BIOS Setup

ROCKY-318 use AMI BIOS for system configuration, and the AMI BIOS setup
program is designed to provide maximum flexibility in configuring the system by
offering various options which may be selected for end-user requirements. This
chapter is written to assist you in the proper usage of these features.

4.1 Getting Started

When the system is powered on, BIOS will enter Power-On-Self-Test routines.
These routines will be executed for System Test and Initialization and System
Configuration Verification. After POST routines are completed, the following
message will appear:

" Hit < Del>, if you want to run SETUP"

To access AMI BIOS Setup program, press <Del> key.

4.2 Standard CMOS Setup

Standard CMOS Setup is the first option on the main menu.

The standard CMOS setup utility is used to configure the following features:

i. Date/Time
ii. Hard Disk Type
iii. Floppy Disk Type

All of these features are almost the same as common, so we do not describe
more detailed in here.

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4.3 Advanced CMOS Setup

When you enter Advanced CMOS Setup, this Setup program is equipped with a
series of help screens, accessed by <F1> key, which will display the options
available for a particular configuration features.

There are a few special items which are specified as below:

• On-board IDE Controller: The IDE hard disk drive can be Enabled or Disabled
by this item. When you do not need hard disk, the IDE controller can be
disabled.
• On-board Floppy Controller: The floppy disk drive can be Enabled or Disabled
by this item. When you do not need floppy disk, FDD controller can be
disabled.
• Serial Port 1: The options are Disabled, 3E8, 2F8,or 3F8. You can set the
I/O address of the serial port (COMA) or disable it.
• Serial Port 2: The options are Disabled, 2E8, 3F8, or 2F8. You can set the
I/O address of the serial port 1 (COMB) or disable it.
• Parallel Port: The options are Disabled, 3BC, 378 or 278. You can set the
I/O address of the parallel port or disable it.
• Parallel Port Mode: ROCKY-318 provides EPP, ECP, ECP+EPP, and Normal Mode.
• Primary Display: You could set VGA/EGA, CGA40x25, CGA80x25, Mono or
Absent. When set Absent the ROCKY-318 will not check the display adapter
when power on the system.
• System Keyboard: You could set Present or Absent. When set Absent the
ROCKY-318 will not check the display adapter when power on the system.

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Appendix A E2 Key™ Function

ROCKY-318 provides an outstanding E2KEY™ function for system integrator.

Based on the E2KEY™ you could free to store the ID Code, Pass Word, or Critical
Data in the 1Kbit EEPROM. Because the EEPROM is nonvolatile memory, you
don’t have to worry the losing of the very important data.

Basically the E2KEY™ is based on a 1Kbit EEPROM which is configured to 64

words (from 0 to 63). You can access (read or write) each word at any time.

When you start to use the E2KEY™ you should have the utility in the package.
The software utility will include four files as follows,

README.DOC
E2KEY.OBJ
EKEYDEMO.C
EKEYDEMO.EXE

The E2KEY.OBJ provides two-library function for user to integrate their application
with E2KEY™ function. These libraries (read_e2key and write_e2key) are
written and compiled in C format. Please check the following statement, and then
you will know how to implement it easily.

unsigned int read_e2key(unsigned int address)

/* This function will return the E2KEY™’s data at address. The address range is
from 0 to 63. Return data is one word,16 bits */

void write_e2key(unsigned int address,unsigned data)

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/* This function will write the given data to E KEY™ at address. The address
range is from 0 to 63. The data value is from 0 to 0xffff. */

To easy start to use the function, please refer the include EKEYDEMO.C code at
first.

Note: E2KEY™ function is based on the working of parallel port. So you should
enable the parallel port of ROCKY-318, otherwise it will be not working.

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Appendix B Watchdog Timer

Watchdog Timer is provided to ensure that standalone systems can always

recover from catastrophic conditions that caused the CPU to crash. This condition
may have occurred by external EMI or a software bug. When the CPU stops
working properly, hardware on the board will either perform a hardware reset
(cold boot) or a non-maskable interrupt (NMI) to bring the system back to a
known state.

Watchdog Timer is controlled by two I/O ports.

443 (hex) Read Enable the refresh the Watch-Dog

Timer.
043 (hex) Read Disable the Watchdog Timer.

To enable Watchdog Timer, a read from I/O port 443H must be performed. This
will enable and activate the countdown timer which will eventually time out and
either reset the CPU or cause an NMI depending on the setting of JP1. To ensure
this reset condition does not occur, Watchdog Timer must be periodically
refreshed by reading the same I/O port 433H. This must be done within the time
out period that is selected by jumper JP8.

A tolerance of at least 30% must be maintained to avoid unknown routines within

the operating system (DOS), such as disk I/O that can be very time consuming.
Therefore if the time out period has been set to 10 seconds, the I/O port 443H
must be read within 7 seconds.

Note: When exiting a program, it is necessary to disable Watchdog Timer,

otherwise the system will reset.

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