User's guide
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Table of Contents
1
Introduction ....................................................................................................................................13
1.1
Features....................................................................................................................................14
1.2
VSBC-6872 Block Diagram........................................................................................................15
1.3
Component location...................................................................................................................16
2
Getting started................................................................................................................................17
2.1
Unpacking instructions...............................................................................................................17
2.2
Hardware Configuration.............................................................................................................17
2.3
Base board configuration...........................................................................................................17
2.4
Expansion module installation....................................................................................................17
2.5
Board installation.......................................................................................................................17
2.6
ECMon monitor.........................................................................................................................18
3
Functional description.....................................................................................................................19
3.1
Freescale MPC8270 processor..................................................................................................19
3.2
SDRAM controller......................................................................................................................20
3.3
Memory Management Unit.........................................................................................................21
3.4
External Bus Controller..............................................................................................................21
3.5
FLASH Memory.........................................................................................................................22
3.6
SRAM Memory..........................................................................................................................22
3.7
Real Time Clock........................................................................................................................23
3.8
CompactFlash card interface.....................................................................................................24
3.9
Fast Ethernet communication ports............................................................................................25
3.10
SCC multi-protocol serial ports ..................................................................................................25
3.11
Interrupt controller.....................................................................................................................27
3.12
Direct Memory Access Controller...............................................................................................28
3.13
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C serial interface bus...............................................................................................................28
3.13.1
VPD EEPROM (Vital Product Data)...................................................................................29
3.14
MPC8270 PCI bus.....................................................................................................................30
3.14.1
PMC expansion slot..........................................................................................................30
3.14.2
Dual S-ATA Controller.......................................................................................................30
3.15
VMEbus Interface......................................................................................................................31
3.15.1
60x-to-VME Bridge............................................................................................................31
3.15.2
VMEbus Master ................................................................................................................32
3.15.3
VMEbus Slave..................................................................................................................32
3.15.4
VMEbus Requester...........................................................................................................35
3.15.5
VMEbus Interrupter...........................................................................................................35
3.15.6
VMEbus Interrupt Handler.................................................................................................35
3.15.7
VMEbus Mailbox...............................................................................................................35
3.15.8
VMEbus System Controller ...............................................................................................36
3.15.9
Bridge DMA Controller......................................................................................................36
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Bridge Registers.............................................................................................................................37
5
Board resources.............................................................................................................................57
5.1
Peripheral Chip Select...............................................................................................................57
5.2
Memory map.............................................................................................................................57
5.3
Interrupt sources .......................................................................................................................58
5.4
Multiplexed General Purpose I/O ports......................................................................................59
6
Technical Characteristics................................................................................................................61
7
Hardware description......................................................................................................................63
7.1
Front panel connectors..............................................................................................................63
7.1.1
Fast Ethernet port FCC1..FCC3........................................................................................63
7.1.2
Console port .....................................................................................................................64
7.1.3
Multi-protocol serial ports SCC1..SCC4.............................................................................65
7.2
Board jumpers...........................................................................................................................67
7.3
Serial Communication port jumpers...........................................................................................68
7.4
IEEE1149.1 Test Access Port, P11 Connector...........................................................................69
7.5
SPI/SMC2/I2C connector...........................................................................................................69
7.6
S-ATA ports...............................................................................................................................70
7.7
CompactFlash connector...........................................................................................................70
7.8
VMEbus P1 connector...............................................................................................................71
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