2 PCA-6180 User's Manual
1.1 Introduction
The PCA-6180 Series all-in-one industrial grade CPU card uses
Intel
®
's highly acclaimed Pentium
®
III / Celeron
®
processor, together
with the Intel
®
815E chipset. The card works with standard ISA- or
PCI/ISA-bus passive backplanes.
The CPU provides 256/128 KB on-CPU L2 cache, eliminating the
need for external SRAM chips. It has two PCI EIDE interfaces (for
up to four devices) and a floppy disk drive interface (for up to two
devices). Other features include two RS-232 serial ports (16C550
UARTs with 16-byte FIFO or compatible), one enhanced parallel port
(supports SPP/EPP/ECP) and four USB (Universal Serial Bus) ports.
The PCI enhanced IDE controller supports Ultra ATA/100/66/33 and
PIO Mode 4 operation. This provides data transfer rates of 100/66/
33 MB/sec. System BIOS supports boot-up from an IDE HDD/CD-
ROM, SCSI HDD/CD-ROM, LS-120, ZIP-100, FDD, and LAN.
A backup of CMOS data is stored in the Flash memory, which
protects data even after a battery failure. Also included is a 255-level
watchdog timer, which resets the CPU or generates an interrupt if a
program cannot be executed normally. This enables reliable opera-
tion in unattended environments.
The PCA-6180 Series offers several impressive industrial features
such as a chipset integrated VGA (AGP) controller, a PCI Ultra 160
SCSI controller, dual 10/100Base-T networking controllers, three
DIMM slots for a total of 512 MB SDRAM memory, and an ISA
High Drive. All these make it an ideal choice for applications that
require both high performance and full functionality.
Note: Some of the features mentioned above are not
available with all models. For more information about
the specifications of a particular model, see
Section 1.3: Specifications.
