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1. Press ENTER to SAVE the changes or Press ESC to EXIT without saving the changes Options saved You must reset for these options to take effect Appendix A 96 SHOWTIME COM SHOWTIME COM Support command PURPOSE To display the current time and date SYNTAX SHOWTIME REMARKS This command displays the following for example Current date time is THU 12 1 1994 10 06 47 Appendix A 97 SLEEP COM PURPOSE SYNTAX REMARKS SLEEP COM Support command To conserve CPU power consumption SLEEP The command puts the processor in sleep mode thus using less power An interrupt awakens the processor and lets it resume its activities The DOS dock is stopped while in sleep mode The 18 2 per second timer tick is disabled during this time All other interrupts i e serial and keyboard are left enabled When the processor is awakened via an interrupt usually via COM1 or keyboard and if a DS 1216DM clock module has been installed in SSD2 of the 5012A and has been enabled in SETUP the time will be accurate when the processor is awakened from sleep mode Otherwise the time will not be accurate Appendix A 98 SLOW COM PURPOSE SYNTAX REMARKS SEE ALSO SLOW COM Support command To change the CPU dock speed to 4 77 MHz SLOW The 5012A always boots with the faster dock speed of 12 MHz If you wish to change to the 4 77 MHz speed enter the following command SLOW
2. 5012A PC Control Card Micro PC Card Cage Power Module 5410 or 5420 Video Card XT Compatible Keyboard PSKI 1 Interface Board VTC 9F Cable Monitor CMA 10 Cable Null modem adapter 1 Configure the 5012A for a video card by installing jumper W2 1 2 Boot the 5012A from the BIOS drive Video amp Keyboard 49 W2 COM1Nideo and BIOS Boot Options Pin Description 1 2 J umpered Usevideo card if available or COM 1 as the console Noconsoleport This leaves COM 1 available for use 1 2 Nat jumpered with your application program when no video card is present 3 AF J umpered Boot usingall theinformation saved by SETUP 3 4 Not jumpered Boot usingall theinformation saved in SETUP exaept Bod from the BIOS drive If no video card exists use 9600 N 8 1 settings for COM 1 consoleand use COM 1 as the console port ignores W2 1 2 5 67 Nat used default 2 Connect the video card to the video monitor 3 Connect the PSKI 1 toJ 1 on the 5012A using a CMA 10 cable and then connect the keyboard to the PSKI 1 4 Install the 5012A and video card into the card cage 5 Boot the 5012A from the BIOS drive with COM 1 set as the main console I O The BIOS messages should appear on your video monitor Video amp Keyboard 50 Octagon 5012A BIOS vers x xx Copyright c 1991 1994 Octagon Systems Corp All Rights Reserved Saving a Program to the 5012A 1 Creat
3. TRANSFERRING FILES BETWEEN 5012A amp YOUR PC Once you have established communications between your PC and the 5012A you can download files to the virtual drive on the 5012A The virtual drive provides temporary storage for your files and allows you to test and debug your application files before permanently saving them You can also upload files from your 5012A to your PC for editing and debugging When you boot the 5012A 512K system from the BIOS ROM DOS drive you have a 136K virtual drive generally configured as drive D For 1 MB systems you have a 384K virtual drive and for 2 MB systems you ll have a 1408K virtual drive Files are downloaded using the transfer program TRANSFER EXE which resides on the 5012A The following information on downloading files between the 5012A and your PC uses an example program DEMO EXE This fileis on your 5012A utility disk in the DEMO subdirectory Quick Start 16 Downloading Files to the 5012A 1 Make sure you have established a serial communications link between the 5012A and your PC To begin downloading a file execute the TRANSFER EXE program from the 5012A by typing TRANSFER D DEMO EXE RETURN NOTE Transfer will timeout if the program has not been started after approximately 40 seconds Refer to your PC SmartLINK manual for more information on transferring files using the XMODEM protocol When the transfer is complete type the following DOS
4. Bnnnn selects the baud rate for transmis sion Available baud rates are 300 1200 2400 4800 9600 19200 38400 57600 and 115k The default baud rate is 115k is an optional argument which specifies packet style transmission This is recom mended for any baud rates over 19200 The default for this option is to include the for packet transmission COMn is an optional argument which selects the communication port Available ports are 1 and 2 COM1 is the default port S instructs REMSERV torun silently that is without any screen output P is an unlisted option which is used to print a short help screen for the REMSERV program If the is used the drive letter argument is omitted for example REMSERV Appendix A 92 EXAMPLE 1 EXAMPLE 2 SEE ALSO To select drive B as the available Server drive at 115K baud pack style transmission using COM 1 you would enter the following REMSERV B To set drive C as the Server disk at 9600 baud without packet style transmission on COM2 you would enter the following REMSERV C B9600 COM2 NOTE The Server program can be termi nated at any time by pressing the E SC key The Client can then no longer access the Server s drive until the REMSERV program is run again REMDISK EXE REMQUIT EXE Appendix A 93 RESET COM PURPOSE SYNTAX REMARKS RESET COM Support command To enable the watchdog timer and allow timeout to expir
5. If the SETUP program is not accessible from SSD1 you must remove jumper W2 3 4 This configuration uses video and boots from the BIOS drive using ROM DOS COM1 is configured for 9600 N 8 1 The following message appears when you reboot the 5012A Save amp Run Programs 34 BIOS boot jumper W2 3 4 not installed boot ing from the BIOS drive and ignoring the video jumper setting 5012A C gt W2 COM1Nideo and BIOS Boot Options Pinz Description 1 2 J umpered Usevideo card if available or COM 1 as the console Noconsoleport This leaves COM 1 available for use 1 2 Not jumpered with your application program when no video card is present 3 AF J umpered Boot usingall theinformation saved by SETUP 3 4 Not jumpered Boot usingall theinformation saved in SETUP exapt Boot from the BIOS drive If no video card exists use 9600 N 8 1 settings for COM 1 consoleand use COM 1 as the console port ignores W2 1 2 5 6 Nat used default After booting from the BIOS drive use the DISKSAVE and DISKSEND programs to download new files toSSD1 Before rebooting the 5012A be sure to reinstall jumper W2 3 4 if you want the 5012A to boot from SSD1 or the drive specified in SETUP Save amp Run Programs 35 This page intentionally left blank Save amp Run Programs 36 CHAPTER 6 SERIAL PORTS DESCRIPTION The 5012A has two serial ports that are Intel 8250 compatible
6. 28 CHAPTER 5 SAVE amp RUN PROGRAMS SAVE AND RUN YOUR PROGRAMS ON THE 5012A Once you have written tested and debugged your application you can then save it to flash in SSD1A B When you reboot the 5012A your program will automatically load into DOS memory and execute This chapter tells you 1 How to save an application program to SSD1 2 How to autoexecute the program from the 5012A and 3 How to override autoexecution of your program The information in this chapter assumes you will be using ROM DOS in your application Some Microsoft programs make undocu mented DOS calls With ROM DOS an error will be returned when an undocumented DOS call is made causing your program to operate unpredictably We recommend booting from SSD1 using your own DOS when using programs with undocumented DOS calls Refer to Chapter 12 Using Your Own DOS for more information on saving and autoexecuting programs This chapter also assumes you will be using the 5012A without a video card monitor If you are using these devices refer to Chapter 10 Video and Keyboard for more information on transferring and saving programs SAVING YOUR PROGRAM Saving your program to SSD1 is accomplished in two steps 1 Run SETUP to define the size of the flash in SSD1 and default boot option Refer to Chapter 4 SETUP for more information 2 Save your program and supporting files from your PC to the 5012A Save amp Run Programs 29 S
7. Overview 6 This port has a 20 pin connector When used only for digital 1 0 a CMA 20 cable connects the port to the STB 20 terminal board for connection to field wiring To use a PC compatible printer connect this port to the PSKI 1 interface board with a CMA 20 cable The PSKI 1 has a DB 25 connector for the printer This port will also interface with Octagon displays and keypads For LCD displays use the LCD IFB interface board and the DP IFB interface board for the DP series vacuum fluorescent dis plays Both interface boards have keypad connectors A CMA 20 cable is required COM1 and COM Serial Ports The COM1 and COM2 serial ports are 8250 compatible and support IBM compatible interrupts The baud rates are program mable to 56K baud The serial interface is RS 232C and is compatible with the Octagon VTC 9F serial cable SETUP Stored in Serial EEPROM The 5012A stores setup information in nonvolatile EEPROM as a result it is immune to battery or power failure The BIOS uses 60 bytes of the EEPROM Additional user definable information can also be stored in the EEPROM Up to 452 bytes are available 68 bytes are standard Hardware Reset You can reset the system without turning off the power using the hardware reset button It also provides a more complete reset than the CTL 2 ALT DEL method Expansion Cards Available The 5012A takes one card slot in a Micro PC card cage Micro PC expansion cards e g t
8. You will need the following equipment or equivalent 5012A Control Card Micro PC Card Cage Power Module VTC 9F Cable Null modem adapter 5012A ROM DOS amp Utility Software Disk PC SmartLINK w manual Your PC Please refer to Appendix B if you are making your own serial cable or using other non Octagon components To install the 5012A 1 Please refer to Figure 2 1 for the location of various connectors before installing the 5012A Control Card Quick Start 11 Optional 2MB DRAM SSD 1A SSD 1B Oo p Power LED Reset w ES BIOS DOS i ROM 4 Ketoni U22 Boot SSD 2 Video LPT1 Jumpers E u4 duzi v4 duzi Printer Port k Watchdog Timer COM1 5V Onl C 5 Operation 12 MHz V20 Processor Flash EEPROM Programmer Figure 2 1 5012A Component Diagram WARNING The 5012A Control Card contains static sensitive CMOS components The greatest danger occurs when the card is plugged into a card cage The 5012A card becomes charged by the user and the static discharges to the backplane from the pin closest to the card connector If that pin happens to bean input pin even TTL inputs may be damaged To avoid damaging your card and its components 1 Ground yourself before handling the 5012A 2 Disconnect power before removing or insert ing the card 3 When programming a memory device place the device in the socket before applying powe
9. fully saved to SSD1 You can also test your program before making changes for autoexecution Once your program is tested and verified you can run SETUP and make changes so that your program will autoexecute and Boot from SSD1 using ROM DOS 1 Make sure you have established a serial communications link between the 5012A and your PC 2 Type C SETUP NOTE If you are not booting from the BIOS drive the drive designator may differ 3 The system will display the 5012A setup parameters and available options Select the option by pressing the space bar until the correct information appears then press ENTER Press ESC if you want to exit setup without saving your responses COM1 Console Baud Rate 1200 2400 4800 9600 19200 38400 57600 115200 SETUP 24 The following messages may appear NOTE To use COM1 as the console at a speed other than 9600 baud you must install the BIOS boot jumper W2 3 4 Power on memory test Enabled Disabled Y ou may want to disable the memory test to speed up the boot process SSD1 device 256K Flash N28F020 in SSD 1A 512K Flash 2 256Ks as one disk 512K Flash 2 256Ks as two disks When configuring the 5012A you have the option to setup the 256K flash EPROMs as one 512K disk SSD1A or two 256K disks SSD1A and SSD1B NOTE After setting the SSD1 device use DISKSAVE DISKSEND to program the flash The message Device not found from MEMDRI
10. Automatic execution of a program on power up or reset The solid state disk which contains the system BIOS and ROM DOS Video card or COM1 where BIOS and DOS messages appear and keyboard input is available Contains the CPU memory and operating system and controls the operation of all the extension cards Dynamic Random Access Memory devices DRAMs provide volatile memory with unlimited read and write cycles The expansion cards add 1 O functions to the Micro PC system such as analog input output digital input output motion control display and so on Electrically erasable PROM which allows a minimum of 100 000 write erase cycles The type of static RAM DRAM flash EPROM or EPROM specified for either volatile or nonvolatile memory Preface 2 PC SmartLINK ROM ROM DOS Solid State Disk SSD Static RAM TTL Compatible Virtual Drive XMODEM XON XOFF A serial communications software package designed by Octagon for use with the 5012A Control Card Refers to all versions of PC SmartLINK Read Only M emory devices ROMs provide nonvolatile memory have a limited number of write cydes and indude EPROMs EEPROMs and flash EPROMs DOS operating system included in Micro PC ROM A simulated disk using a high speed solid state memory device for example flash EEPROM or static RAM Static Random Access M emory device Static RAMs provide volatile memory with unlim ited read and wri
11. C com port 1 2 3 4 1 D data bits 7 8 8 S stop bits 1 2 1 P parity NONE EVEN ODD NONE H handshake ECHO CTS XON CTS Appendix A 79 SEE ALSO For example to use 2400 baud via COM2 use the following DISKSAVE B2400 C2 Normally only the communication port for DISKSEND and or the baud rate for both DISKSEND and DISKSAVE will need to be adjusted NOTE The baud rate can be different than the console baud rate set up with SETUP DISKSAVE Appendix A 80 FAST COM PURPOSE SYNTAX REMARKS SEE ALSO FAST COM Support command To change CPU clock speed from 4 77 MHz to 12MHz FAST Enter the following command to automatically change to the 12 MHz dock speed FAST You can also enter lt CTL gt lt ALT gt lt gt to switch to 12 MHz if you are using a keyboard and monitor with the 5012A SLOW COM Appendix A 81 LPT1CON COM PURPOSE SYNTAX REMARKS SEE ALSO LPT1CON COM Support command Redirects the video to the LPT1 port LPT1CON If you have an LCD IFB or DP IFB interface board and a display connected to LPT1 executing the DISPLAY EXE and LPT1CON COM programs allow you to use the display as the system console You must reset your system to change the video to the original parameters COM1CON COM DISPLAY DOC on the utility disk Appendix A 82 MAKESSD1 COM MAKESSD1 COM Support command PURPOSE Saves virtual drive or floppy drive to SSD1A SSD
12. They can be used for interfacing to a printer terminal or other serial device When COM 1 J 4 is designated as the main console I O it can be used for program development During run time it can be used in the same manner as COM 2 J 3 It can be used with printers displays or other devices that do not require handshaking during run time J 4 COM1 and J 3 COM2 Serial Ports Function Joss 3 RxD a RTS s xo 6 CTS 7 DTR s RI 9 Gnd ho fs active low These ports support 5 6 7 or 8 bit word lengths 1 1 5 or 2 stop bits and baud rates up to 115 2K Default parameters for both ports are 9600 baud 8 data bits no parity and 1 stop bit Use a VTC 9F cable to connect the ports to the external serial equipment The pinout of the connector allows you to plug the cable directly into a 9 pin PC serial connector When interfacing the 5012A to your PC you will need to use a null modem adapter Serial Ports 37 COM1 AS CONSOLE I O When the 5012A system boots up it looks for the video card to determine whether or not to send and receive information via a keyboard and monitor or across the serial link on COM1 to the PC Jumper block W2 1 2 determines the configuration for COM1 as well as the default boot options W2 COM1Nideo and BIOS Boot Options Pin Description 1 2 J umpered Usevideo card if available or COM 1 as the console
13. 72 APPENDIX A SOFTWARE UTILITIES INTRODUCTION The 5012A ROM DOS and Software Utility Disk comes with the utilities listed below Some of these utilities are also available on the 5012A BIOS drive This appendix describes the utilities and their use Support commands COM1CON COM DISKSAVE EXE DISKSEND EXE FAST COM LPT1CON COM MAKESSD1 COM REMDISK EXE REMQUIT EXE REMSERV EXE RESET COM SETUP COM SHOWTIME COM SLEEP COM SLOW COM Support device drivers MEMDRIVE SYS NOTE Other utilities are included from ROM DOS and are not mentioned in this section Please refer to your ROM DOS manual Appendix A 73 COMICON COM PURPOSE SYNTAX REMARKS SEE ALSO COM1CON COM Support command Redirects video to the COM 1 port when you have a video card and monitor installed in your system and restores COM 1 serial parameters COMICON Execute COM 1CON from the command line When you are finished using the console port reset your system After boot up the system reverts to using the video card and monitor Also some programming languages may not restore the serial parameters after using the COM 1 port COM1CON COM will restore the COM 1 port as the console You must include your program and COM1CON in a batch file and then execute the batch file to restore the console LPT1CON COM Appendix A 74 DISKSAVE E XE PURPOSE SYNTAX REMARKS PARAMETERS DISKSAVE EXE Support command To
14. AL Enable the EMS for the page from which you want to modify or read For systems with 1 MB there will be 384K available over the 640K limit Dividing this amount into 16K amounts gives page numbers from 0 17H Bit 7 is the enable disable flag The window 0 I O address is 258H at DOOOH MOVAL 81H Enables the second 16K page to be accessed through window 0 located at ODOOOH MOVDX 258H OUTDX AL Appendix B 104 Enable the other three 16K windows Window 1 I O address is 4258H at D800H Window 2 I O address is 8258H at D400H Window 3 I O address is C258H at DCOOH MOVAL 97H Enables the last 16K page to be accessed through window 1 located at 0D800H MOV DX 4258H OUTDX AL Access the page by writing reading through the EMS window MOV AX 0D000H MOVES AX Sets ES to the window segment XORDI DI MOVES DI AH To store something in the window MOV AH ES DI To retrieve something from the window When your program has finished with the EMS memory MOVAL 0 Bit 7 20 disables the EMS MOVDX 258H The EMS window 0 I O port 258H OUT DX AL Appendix B 105 Disable the other enabled windows MOVDX 4258H Disables page 1 OUTDX AL Reenable the SSD MOVAL 0 Enables the SSD MOVDX 387H OUTDX AL Appendix B 106 WARRANTY Octagon Systems Corporation Octagon warrants that its stan dard hardware products will be free from defects in materials a
15. GETTING STARTED 1 Make sure jumper W2 1 2 and W2 3 4 are installed 2 Configure jumper W1 for the DRAM memory size that you have in your system W1 DRAM Size DRAM Pins J umpered lo 2MB 1 3 2 4 256K or 512K 3 5 4 6 3 Install memory devices in SSD1 and SSD2 if they are not already in place To install memory devices refer to Chapter 3 RAMs and EPROMs 4 Verify that power to the card is OFF and install your 5012A Control Card and peripheral equipment except for the video card into the card cage WARNING Plugging the card in backwards will destroy the card 5 A logon message similar to the one below will appear on your PC monitor Using Your Own DOS 55 Octagon 5012A6012 BIOS Vers x xx Copyright c 1991 1996 Octagon Systems Corp TM All Rights Reserved If you do not get the proper logon message e Remove W2 3 4 Also check the serial parameters of your PC to make sure they are set correctly Parameters should be 9600 baud 8 data bits no parity and 1 stop bit e Make sure a video card is not installed e If the parameters are set correctly and the system still does not respond refer to Chapter 13 Troubleshooting Use the directory command to make sure your equipment and software are working properly Type DIR return A directory listing of ROM DOS files stored in the BIOS Socket should appear this is the default drive You are now ready to run SETUP to select b
16. Noconsoleport This leaves COM 1 available for use 1 2 Not jumpered with your application program when no video card is present 3 4 J umpered Boot usingall theinformation saved by SETUP 3 4 Nat jumpered Boot usingall theinformation saved in SETUP ept Boc from the BIOS drive If no video card exists use 9600 N 8 1 settings for COM 1 consoleand use COM 1 as the console port ignores W2 1 2 5 6 Nat used default Serial Ports 38 If there is no video card and W2 1 2 is installed and you are not booting from the BIOS drive the system will communicate via COM T1 accepting keyboard input and displaying responses over the serial link In this case the serial parameters of COM 1 are Baud rate specified by SETUP Data bits 8 Stop bits 1 Parity none Interface RS 232 NOTE When W2 3 4 is removed the baud rate defaults to 9600 The TRANSFER program defaults to COM1 as the main console port If you are using a video card you can use the COM switch as described in Chapter 10 Video and Keyboard Also refer to the ROM DOS User s Guide for more information about the TRANSFER program Some programs which access the video memory directly will not work properly on the 5012A without a video card resident Refer to the DEMO BAS program on the utility disk for an example of required QuickBASIC modifications Refer to Chapter 10 Video and Keyboard for more information on using a video as th
17. RAM on top of the DS 1216DM Pin 1 of the RAM chip should point away from the gold contact fingers of the 5012A card RAMs and EPROMs 20 3 After installing the calendar clock module confirm that the SETUP option DS clock is enabled Otherwise the time and date will be incorrect To Install Additional DRAM The 5012A is shipped with various options of DRAM installed on the card Additional DRAM may be added Be sure the chips meet the industrial temperature range of 40 C to 85 C The following table lists the memory upgrade options and Octagon order number for DRAM DRAM Upgrades for 5012A Memory Upgrade Order Description 3471 4 256K x AZIPs 3214 2 1 MB x4ZIPs 3214 Qty 2 4 1 MB x AZIPs 3214 2 1 MB x4ZIPs 3214 Qty 2 4 1MBx4ZIPs 1MB 2MB 3214 4 1 MB x4ZIPs 1 Install the DRAMs in sockets as shown in Figure 3 2 Line the pins of the chip up with the holes of the socket The index mark on the end of the chip it looks like a small nick should be farthest from the gold contact fingers Carefully push the DRAM into the socket Populate sockets U19 and U21 for 256K or 1 MB systems followed by sockets U24 and U25 for 512K or 2 MB systems RAMs and EPROMs 21 1MB DRAM Figure 3 2 DRAM Installation RAMs and EPROMs 22 CHAPTER 4 SETUP DESCRIPTION The SETUP program defines the 5012A system parameters for CPU dock speed COM 1 memory test boot options number
18. ROM DOS If you are booting up using your own DOS refer to the instructions in Chapter 12 Y ou can also boot your 5012A from a floppy or hard disk How ever MEMDRIVE SYS must be placed in your CONFIG SYS file in order for the system to access the memory device in SSD1A SSD1B SSD2 or the BIOS drive FLOPPY DISK DRIVES Y ou can add two floppy disk drives by using the 5800A Floppy Hard Disk Card with your 5012A card 1 Install the 5012A Control Card 2 Install the 5800A Floppy Hard Disk Card and the 5814 Floppy Disk Drive following the instructions induded with these products 3 Plug the card cage power cable into an AC outlet Turn on the power supply This supplies power to the floppy disk drive via the ribbon cable as well as to the cards in the card cage 4 Run SETUP to set the number of floppy drives and their size NOTE Two drive designators will be assigned regardless of how many drives you specify in SETUP 5 When you boot from either the BIOS or SSD1 drives using ROM DOS the floppy drive designations will be A and B External Drives 53 NOTE When you boot from SSD1 using your own DOS only one floppy drive will be available since DOS thinks that SSD1 is drive A Connect your floppy disk drive to connector J 3 FDC drive B and access it with B If you boot from the floppy disk the first floppy drive is drive A and the second is drive B If in SETUP you entered 0 drives access to either A o
19. You can also press lt CTL gt lt ALT gt lt gt to change to 4 77 MHz if you are using a key board and monitor with the 5012A FAST COM Appendix A 99 This page intentionally left blank Appendix A 100 APPENDIX B CUSTOM COMMUNICATION CABLE The 5012A card requires an RS 232 serial communications cable to interface to the PC If you are not using a VTC series cable you can make your own communications cable 1 Determine if your PC requires a male or female connector 2 Refer to the following table for cable connections for the 5012A Custom RS 232 Cable Signal Direction DCD Input COMI COM2 DSR Input RxD Input RTS Output TxD Output CTS Input DTR Output RI Input Gnd 45V POWER SUPPLY If using a switching power supply make sure you meet the mini mum load requirement for the power supply Appendix B 101 UPLOADING FILES FROM THE 5012A The TRANSFER program is also used to upload files from the 5012A card to your PC for editing or debugging To upload a file 1 Make sure a serial link is established between your PC and the 5012A 2 Start PC SmartLINK on your PC 3 From the 5012A type A TRANSFER s D DEMO EXE Refer to the PC SmartLINK User s Manual for information on transferring files using the XMODEM protocol ASSIGNING DRIVE DESIGNATORS ROM DOS is a MS DOS version 6 22 compatible operating system Since it is stored in ROM it is alw
20. and size of floppy drive s SSD1 flash size clock option and number of line printers The 5012A is shipped with default configuration parameters stored in the EEPROM U23 You make changes to these parameters by running the SETUP program which is stored on the BIOS drive Each time you make a change to your system s configuration you must rerun SETUP 5012A SETUP Parameters Description Specifies communications rate between your PC and the 5012A when no video card is in use COM 1 Console Baud Rate Power on Memory E xtensive memory testing performed Test on bootup Enabled Spedfies the type of memory devi ce 512K Flash two gt 3D1 eee installed in SSD1 256K s as 1 disk BIOS drive using S pecifies the default boot drive ROM DOS Number of Floppy Specifi es the number of floppy drives Drives attached Floppy Drive Size Spedfies size of the first floppy drive 1 44 MB DS Clok Spedfies whether you have a DS Installed 1216DM installed in SSD2 Number of line System will automatically check to Mp Auto check printers verify if line printer port s exist SETUP 23 RUNNING SETUP If you are running SETUP for the first time and have not previ ously saved and autoexecuted your program we recommend you keep the default setting Boot from BIOS drive using ROM DOS The 5012A will continue to boot from the default BIOS drive until you have verified that your program files are success
21. files were squeezed on the diskette Delete all the files on the floppy and copy them to the floppy again to squeeze the diskett Either delete all the files and copy them again If that does not work try copying to a newly formatted floppy Deleting files from the floppy is the main cause of the blank spaces on the floppy 2 The total size of all the files is over the 256K The following message displays You must reduce the number and or size of files to fit into the Flash EPROM Appendix A 78 PARAMETERS Either e Reduce the number of files e Reduce the size of the files e Add another 256K flash to make it 512K e Use SSD2 to hold some of the files f the contents will fit into flash the following displays Erasing the Flash EPROM Flash EPROM erase completed Programming the Flash EPROM Programming complete If you receive errors during Erasing or Programming check the following e Correct size for SSD1 type in SETUP e If using 256K make sure it is installed in SSDIA e Flash EPROM is installed correctly with the notched corners aligned e Try another diskette NOTE DISKSAVE must be started first Various communication parameters can be modified on the command line If any of the default parameters are changed other than the COM port the same parameters MUST also be used when invoking DISKSAVE Switch Options Default B baud rate 1200 2400 9600 57600
22. from patent infringement Octagon makes no representation or war ranty that such applications will be suitable for the use specified without further testing or modification Octagon Systems Corporation general policy does not recommend the use of its products in life support applications where the failure or malfunction of a component may directly threaten life or injury It is a Condition of Sale that the user of Octagon products in life support applications assumes all the risk of such use and indemnifies Octagon against all damage IMPORTANT Please read before installing your product Octagon s products are designed to be high in performance while consuming very little power In order to maintain this advantage CMOS circuitry is used CMOS chips have specific needs and some special requirements that the user must be aware of Read the following to help avoid damage to your card from the use of CMOS chips Using CMOS Circuitry 1 Using CMOS Circuitry in Industrial Control Industrial computers originally used LSTTL circuits Because many PC components are used in laptop computers IC manufac turers are exclusively using CMOS technology Both TTL and CMOS have failure mechanisms but they are different This section describes some of the common failures which are common to all manufacturers of CM OS equipment However much of the information has been put in the context of the Micro PC Octagon has developed a reliable data
23. installed using a DEVICE command in CONFIG SYS or from the DOS prompt U tells REMDISK to unload itself from memory thereby disabling the new drive Appendix A 88 EXAMPLE 1 letter and freeing the memory occupied by REMDISK The option can only be used when REMDISK is installed from the DOS command line A Remote Disk installed via CONFIG SYS cannot be unloaded P displays a short help screen for the REMDISK program No other arguments are to be induded on the command line when the P is used Bnnnn selects the baud rate for transmis sion Available baud rates are 300 1200 2400 4800 9600 19200 38400 57600 and 115k The default baud rate is 115k is an optional argument which specifies packet style transmission This is recom mended for any baud rates over 19200 The default for this option is to include the for packet transmission COMn is an optional argument which selects the communication port Available ports are 1 and 2 COM1 is the default port NOTE Touse the Remote Disk both the REMDISK and the REMSERV programs must be running on their respective systems Both programs must use the same baud rate and packet or non packet style transmission It does not matter which program is installed first To install the REMDISK program from CONFIG SYS at 19200 on COM using packet style transmission enter the following in CONFIG SYS and then reboot the system remember to include the full path to
24. premens 19 To Install Static RAM Sisiane 20 To Install Battery Backup amp Calendar Clock Module 20 To Install Additional DRAM eee 21 CHAPTER 4 SETUP eeeeen nennen nnn nnns 23 Desai pilo MT deinen 23 Running SETUP encre ett etit rb n n he wien 24 SETUP EXample 5 ien iiiter ite EOM IS ac PE REIN P EIOS 28 CHAPTER 5 SAVE amp RUN PROGRAMS 29 Save and Run Your Programs on the 5012A sse 29 Saving Y our Program ctt bee tret ee Pee redd 29 Saving Program and Support Files sssseeesss 30 Autoexecuting Your Program eene 32 Overriding Program Autoexecution from SSD1 ssss 33 CHAPTER 6 SERIAL PORTS eene 37 Description 3 rn aie Pereira rena rd ERE 37 COM Teas Console lO iret nme t rH era RR ERR RE 38 Disabling linterrupts iacit eei eter ind 39 COMICON COM prese rrt re t the a a AEE 40 QUICKBASIICAN QUES iter steer Yee Even caree ret ebore ao CREE e DEP E TR TUO 40 CHAPTER 7 LPT1 PRINTER PORT 41 DESI PUL OM EET 41 dulnu ge e m 41 Digital WO Lines oie eo eo TAE 41 Icy M M 42 Keypad rere Creeper dip aste ro m pres 43 CHAPTER 8 SERIAL EEPROM 45 IDescripbL OUI isnt tenet he dui Mc a 45 Reading the Seri
25. via software interrupts by most programming languages The software inter rupt used is INT 17 subfunction OFEH read and INT 17 subfunction OFFH write READING THE SERIAL EEPROM The following Borland C example reads word 2 _AH Oxfe f read _BX 2 index for word in serial EEPROM 0 33 _DX Oxffff always set to FFFFH geninterrupt 0x17 do interrupt EEdata AX serial EEPROM data returned in AX WRITING TO THE SERIAL EEPROM The following Borland C example writes 1234H to word 2 _AH Oxff write _BX 2 index for word in serial EEPROM 0 33 _CX 0x1234 Data to write _DX Oxffff always set to FFFFH geninterrupt 0x17 do interrupt NOTE During programming of the EEPROM the power LED may momentarily flash Serial EEPROM 45 This page intentionally left blank Serial EEPROM 46 CHAPTER 9 WATCHDOG TIMER DESCRIPTION The watchdog timer is a failsafe against program crashes or processor lockups It times out every 1 2 seconds unless reset by the software There are three timeout periods for the watchdog timer Each is selected by configuring jumper block WD As shipped the timeout is 1 2 seconds WD Watchdog Timer Pins z J umpered Timeout 1 2F 1 2 seconds 2 3 0 15 seconds Not jumpered 0 6 seconds default The address for the watchdog timer enable port is 380H The timer is software disabled when you write a 0 to 380
26. 0C0 0C7 Bit Port write 0CO Serial EEPROM CS amp opto isolated input bit O0C1 Serial EEPROM data in 0C2 Serial EEPROM clock oc30c7 Not used oco oc7 Bit Port read oco W2 jumpers EEPROM 100 1FF Off card 200 207 Watchdog strobe port 208 2F 7 Off card 2F 8 2F F COM2 serial port 300 377 Off card 378 37F LPT1 printer port 380 38F Bit port 380 Watchdog enable 381 Flash program voltage on 382 SSD bank switch A16 383 SSD bank switch A17 384 SSD bank switch A18 385 SSD socket select 386 Power LED 387 SSD socket enable 388 3F 7 Off card 3F 8 3F F COM1 serial port Technical Data 65 5012A Interrupts Interrupt Description Timer Keyboard Free COM 2 COM4 COM 1 COM3 Hard Drive XT Floppy Drive LPT1 Not used by ROM DOS OU BP WN FP OO JUMPER CONFIGURATIONS W1 DRAM Size DRAM Pins J umpered lor 2MB 1 3 2 4 256K or 512K 3 5 4 6 Technical Data 66 W2 COM1Video and BIOS Boot Options Description 1 2 J umpered Use video card if available or COM1 as the console No console port This leaves COM 1 available for use 1 2 Not jumpered with your application program when no video card is present 3 4 J umpered Boot using all the information saved by SETUP Boot using all the information saved in SETUP except 3 4 Not jumpered Boot from the BIOS drive If no video card exists use 9600 N 8 1 settings for COM 1 co
27. 1 PRINTER PORT DESCRIPTION The LPT1 parallel port has a 20 pin connector It can be used to support a number of devices 1 PC compatible printer 2 17 digital I O lines 3 Matrix keypad 4 Multiline displays PRINTER To install a printer 1 Connect a CMA 20 cable from the LPT1 port to the PSKI 1 interface card 2 Connect your printer to the DB 25 connector on the PSKI 1 DIGITAL I O LINES When used only for digital 1 0 a CMA 20 cable connects the port to a STB 20 terminal board for connection of field wiring LPT1 Printer Port 41 J 2 Printer Digital I O Port Function AFD 0 ERR 1 INIT 2 SLIN 3 4 11 1 0 5 12 1 0 6 13 1 0 7 14 In ACK 15 In BUSY 16 In PE 17 In SLCT ls 5 ls ca 20 Gnd active low DISPLAYS The LPT1 port supports either vacuum fluorescent DP series or liquid crystal LCD displays To interface the displays to the 5012A use the LCD IFB interface board for LCD displays and the LPT1 Printer Port 42 DP IFB interface board for the DP series displays A CMA 20 cable is required to connect the interface board to the 5012A The program DISPLAY EXE found on the 5012A utility disk provides an easy method to use the display Please refer tothe file DISPLAY DOC on the utility disk for information on how to initialize and use the display Toinstall a display 1 Connect a CMA 20 cable from the LPT1 port to t
28. 1B SYNTAX MAKESSD1 REMARKS From the directory where this utility file is located type MAKESSD1 SSD1A S SD1B NOTE The default setting as defined in SETUP is MAKESSD1 SSD1A If you have one disk in your system use the syntax MAKESSDI If you have two disks in your system use the syntax MAKESSD1 SSD1A or MAKESSD1 SSD1B The default setting is MAKESSD1 SSD1A After the copyright message displays the following message displays Which disk do you want to copy to the XXXK memory device in SSD1x default D XXX will vary depending on what device SETUP COM has defined for SSD1 Erasing the Flash Copying drive D EPROM EPROM into the FLASH Drive successfully copied Warning Reset t he system befor accessing SSD1X as a drive Be fore resetting ch from option in S Appendix A 83 ange the Boot ETUP Boot From option BIOS drive with ROM DOS Desired results Notes To view SSD1X before SSD1X using ROM DOS Floppy or hard drive SSD1X using user supplied DOS trying to boot from SSD1X or to use SSD1X as a data drive To boot with ROM DOS on SSD1X SSD1X must con tain ROM DOS COMMAND COM to be bootable If you wish to boot from a floppy or hard drive and access SSD1X as a data drive Copy MEMDRIVE SYS to your drive and add the follow ing line to the CONFIG SYS DEVICE MEMDRIVE SYS SSDIX To
29. C as the main console for the 5012A i e no video card or keyboard is available 4 On the 5012A execute the DISKSAVE program by typing C gt DISKSAVE 5 Once a connection is made exit from PC SmartLINK Using Your Own DOS 57 10 11 From your PC execute the DISKSEND program by typing C gt DISKSEND When prompted for the Input drive to send enter the drive designator for the newly created floppy disk The system will then erase and program the flash This will take several minutes Using a RAM disk or virtual drive on your PC in place of the floppy disk will considerably shorten the time it takes to program the flash NOTE If you are using PC SmartLINK from COM2 on your PC you must use the C2 switch with DISKSEND Refer to the DISKSEND section in Appendix A for more information The two programs DISKSAVE and DISKSEND transfers and saves the files on the floppy disk to SSD1 The DISKSAVE program resides on the BIOS drive of the 5012A and the DISKSEND program resides on the 5012A Utility Disk Restart PC SmartLINK Type C RESET Display and verify the contents of SSD1 DIR E Run SETUP and change your selection of the Boot options to SSD1 using user supplied DOS Install jumper W2 3 4 if needed and reboot your system by typing RESET Your system will boot from SSD1 Using Your Own DOS 58 CHAPTER 13 TROUBLESHOOTING If your system is not wo
30. ET The 5012A will reset and boot from SSD1 SSD1 now becomes drive A OVERRIDING PROGRAM AUTOEXECUTION FROM SSD1 If you want to make changes to your program and need to override autoexecution of your program you must reboot the 5012A from the BIOS drive There are two options available 1 You can rerun SETUP to change the Boot from option to BIOS drive with ROM DOS If you induded the line DEVICE MEMDRIVE SYS BIOS in your CONFIG SYS file you can access the SETUP program on the 5012A BIOS drive Y ou can remove jumper W2 3 4 However this may be inconvenient and or impossible if you are making program changes from an off site location The following information discusses each of these options in detail Save amp Run Programs 33 Torerun SETUP 1 Make sure you have established a serial link between your PC and the 5012A 2 Toexecute SETUP which is on the BIOS drive type SETUP NOTE The drive designator will vary depending on the hardware configuration of the 5012A 3 Select the Boot from BIOS drive using ROM DOS option 4 Type E RESET 5 Makethe necessary changes to your application and copy the new files to a floppy disk or RAM disk 6 Rerun DISKSEND and DISKSAVE to save your new files to SSD1 Verify and test your program 7 Rerun SETUP to change the default boot drive to SSD1 using ROM DOS 8 Reset the 5012A Removing J umper W2 3 4
31. EVICE MEMDRIVE SYS EMS All extended memory as a drive DEVICE MEMDRIVE SYS EMS mmm sss Extended memory as a drive of size mmmkK Starting address at 16K page sss sss 0 start addr 1MB sss 1 start addr 1M B 16K sss 2 start addr 1M B 32K The size of the virtual drive depends on the amount of DRAM in your system 5012A E MS Virtual Drives DRAM Installed Virtual Drive Size Appendix A 87 REMDISK EXE PURPOSE SYNTAX REMARKS REMDISK EXE Support command Allows access to a disk drive on a remote system via a serial cable and standard PC style 8250 UART serial port REMDISK U Bnnnn COMn In a Remote Disk setup one system the one that will share its drives is termed the Server The other system the one that will access and use the remote drives is called the Client The serial ports on both systems must be connected via null modem cable A cabling diagram for a standard cable is shown below DB9 TO DB9 DB25 TO DB25 DB9 TO DB25 2 8 7 5 4 2 4 5 6 Run REMDISK EXE on the Client system This program creates a new drive letter for the Client REMDISK will use the next available system drive letter For example if the last assigned drive was D REMDISK will create a drive E This drive acts in all ways just like any other drive except for the fact that it requires the serial port to do its job REMDISK EXE can be
32. H This is the default setting on power up or reset When you want to start using the watchdog timer write a 1 to 380H You must write any data to 201H within the timeout period to prevent the board from resetting When you write to 201H the timer resets and begins counting down again The following table lists the software enable and strobe information Watchdog Timer Software amp Strobe Addresses Enable Base Address 380H Strobe Base Address 201H Write any data tothis address to Timer disables 0 reset timer Timer enabled 1 default Watchdog Timer 47 This page intentionally left blank Watchdog Timer 48 CHAPTER 10 VIDEO AND KEYBOARD DESCRIPTION You can use a video card with monitor and a keyboard with the 5012A instead of using your PC keyboard and monitor over a serial communications link The speaker and keyboard lines are brought out to a 10 pin connector via a CMA 10 cable The Octagon PSKI 1 interface provides a PC compatible connector for the keyboard and provides screw terminals for the speaker Any XT compatible keyboard may be used This chapter tells you 1 How to use a video monitor and keyboard with a 5012A 2 How to save a program from your PC to the 5012A and 3 How to transfer files between your PC and a 5012A with a video and keyboard only USING A VIDEO MONITOR AND KEYBOARD You will need the following equipment or equivalent to use your 5012A with a video and keyboard
33. M1 J 4 on the 5012A NOTE You must use COM1 on the 5012A in order to estab lish a serial communications link with your PC If your PC has a 9 pin serial connector connect the null modem adapter to serial port COM 1 or COM2 on your PC If your PC has a 25 pin serial connector attach a 9 to 25 pin adapter to your null modem adapter then insert the matching end of the 9 to 25 pin adapter into COM 1 or COM2 NOTE Please refer to the PC SmartLINK manual for more information on using COM2 on your PC ESTABLISHING COMMUNICATIONS WITH THE 5012A 1 Install PC SmartLINK or other communications software on your PC if you have not already done so Refer to the PC SmartLINK manual for installation instructions Copy the 5012A files from the 5012A utility disk to a subdirectory on your PC hard drive Start PC SmartLINK You are now ready to establish commu nications between your PC and the 5012A Control Card Plug the card cage power cable into an AC outlet Turn on the power module Quick Start 14 A logon message similar to the one below will appear on your PC monitor Octagon 5012A 6012 BIOS Vers x xx Copyright c 1991 1996 Octagon Systems Corp TM All Rights Reserved 5012A 6012 MEMDRIVE SYS V2 06 expanded memory present 5012A 6012 MEMDRIVE SYS V2 06 formatting expanded memory 384KB as drive D 5012A 6012 MEMDRIVE SYS V2 06 assigning SSD1A 256KB as drive E 5012A 6012 MEMDRIVE SYS V2 06 memory dev
34. NOTICE The drivers and utilities for Octagon products previously provided on a CD are now in a self extracting zip file located at the Octagon Systems web site on the product specific page Download this file to a separate directory on your hard drive then double click on it to extract the files All references in this manual to files and directories on the CD now refer to files in the Utilities zip file 5012A User s Manual Doc 03419 Rev 0796 OCTAGON SYSTEMS CORPORATION e 6510 W 91st Ave Westminster CO 80030 Tech Support 303 426 4521 COPYRIGHT Copyright 1992 96 Octagon Systems Corporation All rights reserved However any part of this document may be reproduced provided that Octagon Systems Corporation is cited as the source The contents of this manual and the specifications herein may change without notice TRADEMARKS Micro PC PC SmartLink Octagon Systems Corporation the Octagon logo and the Micro PC logo are trademarks of Octagon Systems Corporation QuickBASICG is a registered trademark of Microsoft Corporation ROM DOS is a trademark of Datalight SmartSocket and SmartWatch are trademarks of Dallas Semiconductor NOTICE TO USER The information contained in this manual is believed to be correct However Octagon assumes no responsibility for any of the circuits described herein conveys no license under any patent or other right and makes no representations that the circuits are free
35. VE SYS displays until the device is programmed Boot from BIOS drive using ROM DOS SSD1A using ROM DOS SSD1B using ROM DOS Floppy or Hard drive SSD1A using user supplied DOS SSD1B using user supplied DOS NOTE The options the system displays will depend on the type of device specified for SSD1 SETUP 25 If jumper W2 3 4 is not installed and you selected an option other than BOOT FROM BIOS DRIVE USING ROM DOS the following message will also appear NOTE To boot from the specified device you must install the BIOS boot jumper We recommend that you do not change this option until you have saved and verified your program files in SSD1 If booting from the BIOS drive the No Video jumper W2 1 2 is ignored Number of floppy drives r 15 2 A maximum of 1 floppy drive is possible if booting from SSD1 and using your own DOS See Chapter 12 Using Your Own DOS for details The following message will appear if you select one floppy disk and you boot from SSD1 with your own DOS NOTE Connect the floppy to the second floppy connector The drive will be known as B Floppy drive 1 size 360K 1 2 MB 720K 1 44 MB Floppy drive 2 size 360K 1 2 MB 720K 1 44 MB These two options only display if you have specified that a floppy drive s is attached to the 5012A SETUP 26 DS clock installed Yes No If you specify Y es and no clock is installed the contents of SSD2 will be modifie
36. al EEPROM sese 45 Writing to the Serial EEPROM seen 45 CHAPTER 9 WATCHDOG TIMER 47 Desa ipt OM M ERES 47 CHAPTER 10 VIDEO AND KEYBOARD 49 Desai PEON kesinin in 49 Using a Video Monitor and Keyboard sse 49 Saving a Program to the 5012A sse 51 Transferring Files to the 5012A sese 52 Transferring Files from the 5012A sssssseeeeee 52 CHAPTER 11 EXTERNAL DRIVES 53 do r fagleifo MR e 53 Floppy Disk DriVes icuiin ctc rt enne ir rs 53 Hard Disk DEVO oue hired IU E EROR D IR UE 54 CHAPTER 12 USING YOUR OWN DOS 55 Description ia rere eiie a rear FREU 55 Getting Started eene ciet Gier ERU UU RUE 55 Selecting Boot Memory and Drive Options eeess 56 Autoexecuting the 5012A from a Floppy Hard Disk Drive 56 Autoexecuting from SSD1 with without a Floppy Drive linisballedg ucsscostisseiesovis tiia torrida evita iere dt tex AY ra 57 CHAPTER 13 TROUBLESHOOTING 59 Technical Assistance seeeeenenem ener nnn 61 CHAPTER 14 TECHNICAL DATA 63 Technical Specifications eie et ran pentes 63 Jumper Configurations sss oro e rer eec reti dt 66 Connector Pinouts cssc sciri aia itid vas arra ic P Rd 68 PC B s Pinos ic
37. all Technical Support for more information Clock doesn t work 1 Verify SETUP indicates a clock is installed 2 Make sure the DS 1216DM is installed in SSD2 correctly MEMDRIVE SYS reports device not present with new flash installed 1 You must program the EPROM using DISKSEND and DISKSAVE Refer to Chapter 5 Save and Run Programs MEMDRIVE SYS reports smaller size disk than device will hold in SSD1 1 Device was programmed from smaller disk than destination device using DISKSEND and DISKSAVE TECHNICAL ASSISTANCE Carefully recheck your system before calling Technical Support Run as many tests as possible the more information you can provide the easier it will be for the Technical Support staff to help you solve the problem For technical assistance please call 303 426 4521 Troubleshooting 61 This page intentionally left blank Troubleshooting 62 CHAPTER 14 TECHNICAL DATA TECHNICAL SPECIFICATIONS CPU V20 CMOS 8088 Clock 4 77 or 12 MHz 12 MHz is default software selectable BIOS PC compatible with industrial extensions DRAM OK 256K 512K 1MB 2 MB 80 nS 0 wait state supports the LIM 4 0 standard above 640K Solid State Disk 1 Supports one or two 256K flash EPROMs for application program Programmer built in EPROM not included Solid State Disk 2 Supports 128K or 512K static RAMs that may be battery backed RAM not included Serial EEPROM 68 bytes available to user in sta
38. ard and an expensive display m Multiple component failures The chance of a random component failure is very rare since the average MTBF of an Octagon card is greater than 11 years In a 7 year study Using CMOS Circuitry 2 Octagon has never found a single case where multiple IC failures were not caused by misuse or accident It is very probable that multiple component failures indicate that they were user induced Testing dead cards For a card that is completely nonfunctional there is a simple test to determine accidental over voltage reverse voltage or other forced current situations Unplug the card from the bus and remove all cables Using an ordinary digital ohmmeter on the 2 000 ohm scale measure the resistance between power and ground Record this number Reverse the ohmmeter leads and measure the resistance again If the ratio of the resistances is 2 1 or greater fault conditions most likely have occurred A common cause is miswiring the power supply Improper power causes catastrophic failure f a card has had reverse polarity or high voltage applied replacing a failed component is not an adequate fix Other components probably have been partially damaged or a failure mechanism has been induced Therefore a failure will probably occur in the future For such cards Octagon highly recommends that these cards be replaced Other over voltage symptoms In over voltage situations the programmable logic devi
39. aving Program and Support Files In addition to your application program you must also transfer and save support files to the 5012A to ensure proper operation These files indude the ROM DOS COMMAND COM CONFIG SYS AUTOEXEC BAT and other files specific to your application ROM DOS COMMAND COM is required to boot the 5012A with ROM DOS from SSD1 AUTOEXEC BAT defines the routine for autoexecution of your program CONFIG SYS defines the various device drivers of your 5012A system The following is an example listing of CONFIG SYS entries for the device drivers induded with the 5012A Each of these device drivers is discussed in greater detail in Appendix A Software Utilities Refer to Appendix B for more information on how the 5012A assigns drive designators DEVICE MEMDRIVE SYS SSD1A Accesses the SSD1 drive DEVICE MEMDRIVE SYS SSD2 Accesses the SSD2 drive DEVICE MEMDRIVE SYS BIOS Accesses the BIOS drive DEVICE MEMDRIVE SYS BASE 136 NOTIFEMS Accesses a virtual drive in DOS base memory DEVICE MEMDRIVE SYS EMS Accesses the virtual drive in extended memory NOTE We recommend you include in your CONFIG SYS file the entry DEVICE MEMDRIVE SYS BIOS This allows you to easily access utility programs that are located on the BIOS drive For example if you make changes to your program you will need to rerun the SETUP program To Save Files to the 5012A SSD1 The following information steps you through transferring saving and autoexecuting a prog
40. ays present on power up During run time it requires only about 20K of RAM space When you boot from ROM DOS in the BIOS socket the system automatically assigns drive designators to the extended memory virtual drive SSD1 and SSD2 However if you boot from SSD1 or floppy hard drive you must add the appropriate device drivers to your CONFIG SYS file and copy the files to your boot drive in order to access SSD2 the BIOS drive and the extended memory virtual drive NOTE Even though you provide information about memory devices during setup you must still define drivers for these devices in your CONFIG SYS file You may also need to format the device The following is an example listing of CONFIG SYS entries for the device drivers induded with the 5012A Each of these device drivers is discussed in greater detail in Appendix A Software Utilities device MEMDRIVE SYS SSD2 defines the SSD2 drive device MEMDRIVE SYS SSD1 defines the SSD1 drive device MEMDRIVE SYS BIOS defines the BIOS drive device MEMDRIVE SYS EMS defines the virtual drive 384K or with extra 1 MB DRAM 1408K Appendix B 102 When your system boots up the 5012A device drivers will be listed with their drive designations When you boot from ROM DOS in the BIOS drive and when SSD1 is programmed as one drive drives D F are defined in the CONFIG SYS file The drives are designated as floppy disk floppy disk BIOS drive vir
41. base of customer induced field failures The average MTBF of Micro PC cards exceeds 11 years yet there are failures Most failures have been identified as customer induced but there is a small percentage that cannot be identified As expected virtually all the failures occur when bringing up the first system On subsequent systems the failure rate drops dramatically W Approximately 20 of the returned cards are problem free These cards typically have the wrong jumper settings or the customer has problems with the software This causes frustration for the customer and incurs a testing charge from Octagon m Of the remaining 80 of the cards 90 of these cards fail due to customer misuse and accident Customers often cannot pinpoint the cause of the misuse W Therefore 72 of the returned cards are damaged through some type of misuse Of the remaining 896 Octagon is unable to determine the cause of the failure and repairs these cards at no charge if they are under warranty The most common failures on CPU cards are over voltage of the power supply static discharge and damage to the serial and parallel ports On expansion cards the most common failures are static discharge over voltage of inputs over current of outputs and misuse of the CMOS circuitry with regards to power supply sequencing In the case of the video cards the most common failure is to miswire the card to the flat panel display Miswiring can damage both the c
42. boot with your DOS on SSD1X SSD1X must con tain all required DOS boot files See your DOS manual for more informa tion Appendix A 84 MEMDRIVE SYS MEMDRIVE SYS Device driver PURPOSE SYNTAX REMARKS This device driver is used when the user wishes to access the on card SSDs or virtual drives MEMDRIVE The following CONFIG SYS entries allow the user to access on card SSDs DEVICE MEMDRIVE SYS BIOS Accesses BIOS Drive DEVICE MEMDRIVE SYS SSD1 Accesses SSD1 SSD1A DEVICE MEMDRIVE SYS SSD1A Accesses SSD1 SSD1A DEVICE MEMDRIVE SYS SSD1B Accesses SSD1B DEVICE MEMDRIVE SYS SSD2 Accesses SSD2 This driver first looks at the SSD to see if it looks like a valid disk If it does the system assigns a drive letter after which time you can access the device as a normal disk The drive letter for the virtual drive is dependent on the order of the devices listed in the CONFIG SYS file If the driver does not see a valid device it will do one of the following Flash EPROM If the system does not find a valid disk i e a flash EPROM which has been programmed with DISKSAVE DISKSEND it displays the following message 5012A MEMDRIVE SYS V1 2 memory device not found in SSD2 Appendix A 85 Static RAM The system attempts to format SSD2 as either a 128K or 512K SSD and displays the following message 5012A MEMDRIVE SYS V1 2 formatting SSD2 128KB as drive F If itis unable to
43. c ori ince n epa nin ra E EE Fre Fe ed ER 71 APPENDIX A SOFTWARE UTILITIES 73 COMICON COM iiti aaa eee eR Ines EET asas iE 74 DISK SAVE EX E aniono sd tiber Epor EEN 75 DISKSENB EXE iisccasnic caa viet eri nre dec Pic ea E v n dte 77 FAST COM MR 81 LPTICON COM iiia ed ocn p C RR P Eo vi d e de 82 MAKESSDJI COM riora too ria aade 83 MEMDBRIVE SYS uicina deri erc c E Fh e Pd vais 85 REMDISK EXE 5 5 rrt spe river eiae ria aaa ge SD Ev RR PX VYXAR ERA RN EA 88 RE MOU UTS EXE cisci in erc o a e FER cR PR ER pig 91 REMSERWEXE sarantan indi teo nima ret Torta d EU OENUN AN ET EETOEI 92 RESET GOM iisitisicien tividgu ece hidden erae Edad a ci indu 94 cjduiAeol e 95 SHOWTIME OM icti e dn Re d RE REN 97 SLEEP COM secti rsiseimurtis iain E rua Ea Town YET EO ERE RR 98 SLOW COM ctii ide d dp rr e uec e a ES 99 APPENDIX B eeeeeeeeeeeee enne nnne nnne rr nnns 101 Custom Communication Cable eseeseeeeeeeeneennnee 101 Power Supply ier e eeu ee tere eene punt reete tee ec po D 101 Uploading Files from the 5012A see 102 Assigning Drive Designators seseemeeee 102 Example 2er ene oa ane E Ex HE Ret IRR 103 Extended Merhory eec rentrer fene 104 WARRANTY vi PREFACE This manual provides all the information required to install configure and operate the 5012A Micro PC Control Card It is part of Octa
44. ces EPROMs and CPU chips usually fail in this order The failed device may be hot to the touch It is usually the case that only one IC will be overheated at a time Power sequencing The major failure of I O chips is caused by the external application of input voltage while the Micro PC power is off If you apply 5V to the input of a TTL chip with the power off nothing will happen Applying a 5V input toa CMOS card will cause the current to flow through the input and out the 5V power pin This current attempts to power up the card Most inputs are rated at 25 mA maximum When this is exceeded the chip may be damaged Failure on power up Even when there is not enough current to destroy an input described above the chip may be destroyed when the power to the card is applied This is due to the fact that the input current biases the IC so that it acts as a forward biased diode on power up This type of failure is typical on serial interface chips Using CMOS Circuitry 3 Serial and parallel Customers sometimes connect the serial and printer devices to the Micro PC while the power is off This can cause the failure mentioned in the above section Failure upon power up Even if they are connected with the Micro PC on there can be another failure mechanism Some serial and printer devices do not share the same power AC grounding The leakage can cause the serial or parallel signals to be 20 40V above the Micro PC ground thus damagi
45. com mand to view the virtual drive directory and confirm that your file has transferred to the 5012A DIR D The system will display the contents of drive D Volume in drive D has no label Directory of D DEMO EXE 1725 11 05 91 237p 1 file s 387072 bytes free To execute the program you have just downloaded type D DEMO The system displays a message on your PC Transfer the file DEMO BAS to the 5012A TRANSFER D DEMO BAS Again refer to the PC SmartLINK manual for more informa tion on transferring files to the 5012A Quick Start 17 7 DEMOLBAS is the QuickBASI C program for the DEMO program You can display the file by typing TYPE DEMO BAS Quick Start 18 CHAPTER 3 RAMs AND EPROMs Before you can save and run your application from the 5012A you must first configure the system for your particular application requirements This chapter tells you 1 How to configure the jumpers for DRAM options and 2 Howto install RAMs or EPROMs SETTING JUMPERS The 5012A is shipped with various DRAM options Verify that the jumper settings for W1 reflect the correct memory configuration for your system W1 DRAM Size DRAM Pins J umpered lor 2MB 1 3 2 4 256K or 512K 3 5 4 6 INSTALLING RAMS AND EPROMS To Install Flash EPROMs The 5012A card includes three sockets for solid state disks SSD1A SSD1B and SSD2 SSD1A B generally contains the prog
46. d and the time returned is inaccurate Number of line printers Auto Check 0 1 2 3 If you select Auto Check the system automatically checks the LPT1 printer port to verify that a printer is available by writing a pattern to the printer data lines during boot up or reset If you have a non printing device attached to the LPT1 port e g MPB 16PC and do not want data written to that port during boot up deselect the Auto Check option Press ENTER to SAVE the changes or Press ESC to EXIT without saving the changes Saving options Options saved Depending on the options you have selected the system may display the following message You must reset for these options to take effect SETUP 27 SETUP EXAMPLE The following example configures a system with a 256K flash in SSD1A a DS 1216DM calendar dock in SSD2 and booting from SSD1A with ROM DOS OCTAGON SYSTEMS CORPORATION 5012A SETUP UTILITY V2 01 Press SPACE to CHANGE ENTER to ACCEPT ESC to EXIT COM1 Console Baud Rate 9600 Power on memory test Disabled SSD1 device 256K FLASH N28F020 in SSD 1A Boot from SSD1 using ROM DOS Number of floppy drives O0 DS clock installed Yes Number of line printers Auto check Press ENTER to SAVE the changes or Press ESC to EXIT without saving the changes Options Saved You must reset for these options to take effect CX SETUP
47. e console DISABLING INTERRUPTS The PC Bus does noct allow shared interrupts on the bus You can however disable the COM 1 and COM2 interrupts IRQ3 and IRQ4 to allow for other devices which use these interrupts If COM 1 is the console its interrupt IRQ4 is in use COM2 IRQ3 is not used by the BIOS To disable interrupts for COM1 write a 0 to 3FC bit 3 To disable COM2 write a 0 to 2FC bit 3 Serial Ports 39 COM1CON COM The COM1CON COM program redirects video to the COM 1 port when you have a video card and monitor installed Execute COM 1CON from the command line When you are finished using the console port reset your system After boot up the system reverts to using the video card and monitor Also some programming languages may not restore the serial parameters after using the COM1 port COM 1CON will restore COM1 as the console To restore the serial parameters create a batch file with your application Specify COM 1CON as the last line of the file For example TEST BAT indudes the following to execute a QuickBASIC V4 5 or other language application named USECOM 1 USECOM1 COM1CON Then execute TEST BAT QUICKBASIC NOTES When QuickBASIC V4 5 opens COM1 as a device and when the program is completed it fails to restore COM1 s parameters This causes the keyboard to no longer function Use COM1CON to restore the parameters See the previous section COM1CON COM Serial Ports 40 CHAPTER 7 LPT
48. e thus restarting the system RESET The RESET command also restarts all the expansion I O cards on the bus This differs from a lt CTL gt lt ALT gt lt DEL gt reboot of the system which only restarts the system but not the expansion cards The RESET button on the 5012A also accomplishes the same thing as the RESET command Appendix A 94 SETUP COM PURPOSE SYNTAX REMARKS SETUPRCOM Support command Modifies date and or time for battery backed dock and modifies serial port parameters SETUP From the directory where this utility file is located type n ETUP lt RET gt After the copyright message displays the main menu appears OCTAGON SYSTEMS CORPORATION 5012A SETUP UTILITY V1 1 Press SPACE to CHANGE ENTER to ACCEPT ESC to EXIT COM1 Console baud rate Power on memory test SSD1 Device none 256K Flash in SSD1A 512K Flash 1200 2400 4800 9600 19200 38400 57600 Enabled Disabled N28F020 2 256Ks as one disk 512K Flash 2 256Ks as two disks Appendix A 95 Boot from BIOS drive using ROM DOS SSD1A using ROM DOS SSD1B using ROM DOS Floppy or Hard drive SSD1A using user sup plied DOS SSD1B using user sup plied DOS Number of floppy drives 0 1 2 Floppy drive 1 size 360K 1 2 MB 720K 1 44 MB DS Clock Installed Yes No Number of line printers Auto check w By po
49. e a bootable floppy disk with COMMAND COM CONFIG SYS AUTOEXEC BAT your applications and other supporting files Refer to Chapter 5 Save and Run Pro grams if you are using ROM DOS Refer to Chapter 12 Using Your Own DOS if using other versions of DOS Copy the program DISKSEND from the 5012A utility disk to your PC Connect a VTC 9F cable with a null modem adapter between COM 1 of your PC to COMI of the 5012A On the 5012A execute the DISKSAVE program From your PC execute the DISKSEND program by typing C gt DISKSEND When prompted for the Input drive to send enter the drive designator for the newly created floppy disk The system will then erase and program the flash This will take several minutes Using a RAM disk or virtual drive on your PC in place of the floppy disk will considerably shorten the time it takes to program the flash The two programs DISKSAVE and DISKSEND transfers and saves the files on the floppy disk to SSD1 The DISKSAVE program resides on the BIOS drive of the 5012A and the DISKSEND program resides on the 5012A Utility Disk Video amp Keyboard 51 Transferring Files to the 5012A 1 Connect a VTC 9F cable with a null modem adapter between COM 1 of your PC to COM 1 of the 5012A Execute the TRANSFER program from the 5012A to receive a file from your PC 5012A gt TRANSFER COM1 R V lt drive gt filename ext drive is a virtual drive on the 5012A where you are t
50. e using PC SmartLINK from COM2 on your PC you must use the C2 switch with DISKSEND Refer to the DISKSEND section in Appendix A for more information The two programs DISKSAVE and DISKSEND transfers and saves the files on the floppy disk to SSD1 The DISKSAVE program resides on the BIOS drive of the 5012A and the DISKSEND program resides on the 5012A Utility Disk Restart PC SmartLINK by typing exit If you are saving your program to SSD1 for the first time or you are running the DEMO program the system should boot from the BIOS drive since you did not change the default B oot from option in SETUP Type C RESET Display and verify the contents of SSD1 DIR E Test run the DEMO program E DEMO If there are no problems you are now ready to autoexecute your program from SSD1 AUTOEXECUTING YOUR PROGRAM Once you have saved your program and other files to SSD1 you may boot from SSD1 and autoexecute your program You cannot boot from SSD2 1 Make sure jumper W2 3 4 is installed This is the default setting Save amp Run Programs 32 Establish a serial communications link between your PC and the 5012A Make sure the name of your application program is listed in the AUTOEXEC BAT file e g DEMO Run SETUP and specify Boot from SSD1 using ROM DOS SETUP NOTE The drive designators will change depending on your system configuration Type E RES
51. ead lengths Another source of failure that was identified years ago at Octagon was excessive lead lengths on digital inputs Long leads act as an antenna to pick up noise They can also act as unterminated transmission lines When 5V is switch onto a line it creates a transient waveform Octagon has seen submicrosecond pulses of 8V or more The solution is to place a capacitor for example 0 1 uF across the switch contact This will also eliminate radio frequency and other high frequency pickup Using CMOS Circuitry 4 TABLE OF CONTENTS ldizzel reer 1 Conventions Used in This Manual sese 1 Symbols and Terminology essseeeeeneenenen nnns 2 Technical SUpport eite crm tinent xtti n e oet he 4 CHAPTER 1 OVERVIEW cernere nnn nnn nnn 5 Description sooo ro RR RB OD pp dci 5 Major F Catunes T E 5 Where ToGo rom Elere aieo tt a re 8 CHAPTER 2 QUICK START eee eennnn 11 Hardware Installation siiin 11 Establishing Communications with the 5012A 14 Transferring Files between the 5012A amp Your PC 16 Downloading Files to the 5012A sss 17 CHAPTER 3 RAMS AND EPROMS 19 Setting JUMPE Saia nee EEG OE ro FO ERE 19 Installing RAMS and EPROMS sssseeeeeeneeneeneen enne 19 To Install Flash EPROMS 2 c mre
52. find REMDISK EXE if not located in the root directory DEVICE REMDISK EXE B19200 Appendix A 89 EXAMPLE 2 EXAMPLE 3 EXAMPLE 4 SEE ALSO To display a help screen for REMDISK enter the following at the DOS prompt REMDISK To install REMDISK from the DOS prompt or from a Batch file like AUTOE XEC BAT at 9600 baud without packet style transmis sion on COM2 enter the following REMDISK B9600 COM2 To unload the REMDISK installed from the batch file or the DOS prompt type REMDISK U REMSERV EXE REMQUIT EXE Appendix A 90 REMQUIT EXE PURPOSE SYNTAX REMARKS SEE ALSO REMQUIT EXE Support Command To cancel a REMSERV session on a remote system REMQUIT Once a REMDISK REMSERV connection is no longer needed the REMQUIT command is used on the same CPU running REMDISK to cancel the REMSERV command You may also press the ESC key if you have access to a local keyboard to the CPU running REMSERV REMSERV EXE REMDISK EXE Appendix A 91 REMSERV EXE PURPOSE SYNTAX REMARKS REMSERV EXE Support command To make a single drive at a time on the server system available to the Client The available drive can be changed at any time by quitting the REMSERV program and then running the program again with a new drive letter REMSERV EXE d Bnnnn 4 COMn S d represents the letter of the drive that the Server will make available to the Client
53. format the memory area as a disk it displays the message 5012A MEMDRIVE SYS V1 2 memory device not found in SSD2 When there is a valid disk in SSD2 the system displays the following message 5012A MEMDRIVE SYS V1 2 assigning SSD2 128KB as drive F NOTE When booting from SSD1 you do not need a MEMDRIVE SSD1 entry in your CONFIG SYS file The following CONFIG SYS entries allow the user to access part of the memory normally used by the computer for executing programs as a RAM disk This RAM disk is initialized whenever the system is reset For some DOS systems this is often called a virtual drive The default size for this driveis 128K The size can be modified DEVICE MEMDRIVE SYS BASE nnn Base memory allocates nnnK DEVICE MEMDRIVE SYS BASE nnn NOTIFEMS Base memory allocates nnnK but only on systems with less than 1 MB The NOTIFEMS switch is optional If it is included on 1 to 2 MB systems the virtual drive will not be available For 512K sys tems the virtual drive is always available Appendix A 86 These drives are always formatted on reset Once the virtual drive is defined it can be accessed as any other disk At boot up if the virtual drive is specified the following message displays 5012A MEMDRIVE SYS V1 2 formatting 136KB drive in DOS memory as drive D The following CONFIG SYS entries allow the user to access EMS memory This is the memory above the 640K DOS memory limit D
54. gon s Micro PC user manual series To receive the Micro PC User Manual Binder please return the reply card included with your Control Card By using this manual you will be able to Interface the 5012A Control Card to your PC and the Micro PC expansion cards Set up communications between the 5012A card and a PC Gain an understanding of the operation and various options allowed in the 5012A Control Card CONVENTIONS USED IN THIS MANUAL 1 Information which appears on your screen output from your system commands or data that you key in is shown in a different type face Octagon 5012A BIOS vers x xx Copyright c 1991 1996 Octagon Systems Corp All Rights Reserved Italicized refers to information that is specific to your particu lar system or program e g Enter filename means enter the name of your file Warnings always appear in this format WARNING The warning message appears here Paired angle brackets are used to indicate a specific key on your keyboard e g lt ESC gt means the escape key lt CTRL gt means the control key F 1 means the F 1 function key Preface 1 5 All addresses are given in hexadecimal SYMBOLS AND TERMINOLOGY Throughout this manual the following symbols and terminology are used WI Autoexecuti on BIOS drive Console Port Control Card DRAM Expansion Card Flash EPROM Memory device Denotes a jumper block and the pins to connect
55. h programs the flash in SSD1 with the diskette image Start DISKSAVE on the 5012A and then start DISKSEND on your PC The following message displays 5012A DISKSEND v1 00 Octagon Sys tems Corp Attempting connection with DISKSAVE on remote host When the system detects DISKSAVE has been started on the other end of the serial link it responds Connection established If DISKSAVE was not started or has timed out the system will respond Connection failed Next DISKSEND verifies the SETUP parameters on the 5012A If the SSD1 device is NONE the response is The device type for SSD1 indicates something other than Flash EPROM Please correct the device type by executing SETUP on the MicroPC TM card Appendix A 77 Otherwise the following message appears Input drive to send Input the diskette drive letter which contains the floppy you wish to send If you entered drive A and the 5012A has 256K flash the next message is Verifying drive A will fit into the 256K Flash EPROM DISKSEND reads the disk and verifies all the files on the disk actually reside in the first 256K of the diskette If they do not one of the following is true 1 The total size of all the files should fit into 256K but there are blank spaces between the files causing a part of a file to be beyond the 256K boundary The following message displays The files on your floppy would fit into the Flash EPROM if the
56. he 5805 Solid State Disk Card 5800A Floppy Hard Disk Card etc can be used by simply plugging the expansion card into the backplane of the card cage Up to seven expansion cards can be used with the 5012A Control Card Overview 7 Where to go from here Before you can begin developing your application program for the 5012A we recommend you read Chapters 2 4 These chapters give instructions for hardware installation downloading and saving your program and autoexcuting your application Chapter 2 Quick Start Chapter 3 RAMs amp EPROMs Chapter 4 SETUP Chapter 5 Save amp Run Programs Chapter 6 Serial Ports Chapter 7 LPT1 Printer Port Chapter 8 Serial EEPROM Covers the basics of setting up a 5012A system This chapter describes how to install the 5012A into the card cage how to establish a serial communications link with your PC and how to download files to the 5012A Configuring and installing static RAMs DRAMs and flash EPROMs Installing the battery backup and calendar clock module Running the SETUP configura tion program How to save your program files and autoexecute them from the 5012A Using COM 1 and COM2 Setting COM 1 as the main console I O for serial communications with your PC Using the LPT1 parallel port for a printer digital I O display or keypad How to read and wrute to the serial EEPROM Overview 8 Chapter 9 Watchdog Timer Chapter 10 Video and Keyboa
57. he DP IFB or LCD IFB 2 Connect the display cable to the interface board 3 Refer to the file DISPLAY DOC for more information on initializing and using the display LPT1CON allows the display to be used as the console device To do this add the DISPLAY and LPT1CON commands to your AUTOEXEC BAT file Keyboard input can be from a local key board or from COM 1 if no video card is installed and if W2 1 2 no video jumper is installed KEYPAD LPT1 also supports 4 x 4 matrix keypads To interface the keypad to the 5012A use either the LCD IFB or DP IFB interface board A CMA 20 cable is required to connect the interface board to the 5012A The program DISPLAY EXE found on the 5012A utility disk provides an easy method to use the keypad Please refer to the file DISPLAY DOC on the utility disk for information on how to initialize and use the keypad To install a keypad 1 Connect a CMA 20 cable from the LPT1 port to the DP IFB or LCD IFB 2 Connect the keypad cable to the interface board 3 Refer to the file DISPLAY DOC for more information on reading the keypad LPT1 Printer Port 43 This page intentionally left blank LPT1 Printer Port 44 CHAPTER 8 SERIAL EEPROM DESCRIPTION Up to 68 bytes that is 34 words of user definable data can be saved in the serial EEPROM The serial EEPROM does not require battery backup to maintain the data when the system power is off The serial EEPROM is easily accessable
58. ice not found in SSD1B 5012A 6012 MEMDRIVE SYS V2 06 memory device not found in SSD2 C gt path D C C gt prompt p g C gt showtime Current date time is TUE 1 1 1980 1 00 00 e If you do not get the proper logon message e Check the serial parameters of your PC to make sure they are set correctly Parameters should be 9600 baud 8 data bits no parity and 1 stop bit e Make sure a video card is not installed in the card cage e Remove jumper W2 3 4 from the 5012A card Be sure to turn off the power before removing the 5012A card from the card cage e If the system still does not respond refer to Chapter 13 Troubleshooting Use the directory command to make sure your equipment and software are working properly Type DIR return Quick Start 15 A directory listing of ROM DOS files stored in the BIOS socket should appear Volume in drive C is BIOS DRIVE Directory of C COMMAND CO 27095 05 20 94 6 00a CONFIG SYS 146 05 17 94 10 42a TRANSFER EXE 9969 01 05 93 2 36p DISKSAVE EXE 12602 11 02 94 4 39p SETUP CO 2852 11 02 94 4 39p AUTOEXEC BAT 41 04 15 94 9 42a RESE CO 381 11 02 94 4 39p FAST COM 390 11 02 94 4 39a SLOW COM 390 11 02 94 4 39a SHOWTIME COM 619 11 02 94 4 39a MEMDRIVE SYS 3377 11 02 94 4 38p 11 Files s 57862 bytes 0 bytes free 7 You are now ready to transfer files between your PC and the 5012A
59. nd workmanship under normal use and service for the current established warranty period Octagon s obligation under this warranty shall not arise until Buyer returns the defective product freight prepaid to Octagon s facility or another specified location Octagon s only responsibility under this warranty is at its option to replace or repair free of charge any defective component part of such products LIMITATIONS ON WARRANTY The warranty set forth above does not extend to and shall not apply to 1 Products including software which have been repaired or altered by other than Octagon personnel unless Buyer has properly altered or repaired the products in accordance with procedures previously approved in writing by Octagon 2 Products which have been subject to power supply reversal misuse neglect accident or improper installation 3 Thedesign capability capacity or suitability for use of the Software Software is licensed on an AS IS basis without warranty The warranty and remedies set forth above are in lieu of all other warranties expressed or implied oral or written either in fact or by operation of law statutory or otherwise including warranties of merchantability and fitness for a particular purpose which Octagon specifically disclaims Octagon neither assumes nor authorizes any other liability in connection with the sale installa tion or use of its products Octagon shall have no liability for incidental o
60. ndard model Options to 452 bytes are available ROM DOS Combined with BIOS ROM DOS 6 22 compatible Serial 1 O COM1 and COM2 are 8250 compatible Printer Interface LPT1 is PC compatible Software Supplied BIOS is PC compatible ROM DOS combined with BIOS ROM is compatible with DOS version 6 22 and later Programs should not make undocumented DOS calls or jump directly into the middle of DOS Technical Data 63 Power Requirements 45V 41 596 at 212 mA typical 1 MB 5V 5 at 300 mA during flash programming Environmental Specifications 40 to 85 C operating 55 to 90 C nonoperating RH 5 to 95 noncondensing Size 4 5 in x 4 9 in Watchdog Timer Default timeout is jumper selectable 0 15 0 6 and 1 2 seconds software enabled and strobed Disabled on power up and reset Address of the enable timer is 380H address of strobe is 201H Battery Backed Calendar Clock Supports optional Dallas SmartWatch DS 1216DM modules to battery back 128K or 512K static RAMs 5012A M emory Map O 9FFFF base DRAM 1MB A0000 F FFFF expanded memory at available EM S windows SSD1 D0000 DFFFF SSD2 D0000 DFFFF BIOS drive E 0000 EFFFF ROM DOS kernel F 0000 F AF FF BIOS FB 000 FFF FF Technical Data 64 5012A I O Map Hex Range Function 000 00F 8237 DMA 1 020 021 8259 PIC 1 040 043 8253 Timer 060 063 8255 PPI XT 080 08F DMA Page Registers 0A0 0AF NMI Mask Register XT
61. ng the ports as they are plugged in This would not be a problem if the ground pin is connected first but there is no guarantee of this Damage to the printer port chip will cause the serial ports to fail as they share the same chip Hot insertion Plugging cards into the card cage with the power on will usually not cause a problem Octagon urges that you do not do this However the card may be dam aged if the right sequence of pins contacts as the card is pushed into the socket This usually damages bus driver chips and they may become hot when the power is applied This is one of the most common failures of expansion cards Using desktop PC power supplies Occasionally a cus tomer will use a regular desktop PC power supply when bringing up a system Most of these are rated at 5V at 20A or more Switching supplies usually require a 2096 load to operate properly This means 4A or more Since a typical Micro PC system takes less than 2A the supply does not regulate properly Customers have reported that the output can drift up to 7V and or with 7 8V voltage spikes Unless a scope is connected you may not see these transients Terminated backplanes Some customers try to use Micro PC cards in backplanes that have resistor capacitor termina tion networks CMOS cards cannot be used with termination networks Generally the cards will function erratically or the bus drivers may fail due to excessive output currents Excessive signal l
62. normally contains the program to be executed on power up The program is automatically loaded into DOS memory and executed A program can be transferred into flash using the on card programmer and supplied software Only flash EPROMs may be programmed These devices are erased automatically during the programming process Multiple programs may be stored as long as the total size does not exceed 512K The SSD2 socket supports only a 128K or 512K static RAM which is used for data storage To retain data during power outages the DS 1216DM calendar dock that plugs into this socket will also battery back the RAM The solid state disks reside in memory that is separate from the 640K of DOS memory Software drivers are provided Also if your application requires additional program and data storage capabilities you can add Micro PC 5805 Solid State Disk Cards to your system Speaker and Keyboard The speaker and keyboard lines are brought out to a 10 pin connector via a CMA 10 cable The Octagon PSKI 1 interface provides a PC compatible connector for the keyboard and provides screw terminals for the speaker Any XT compatible keyboard may be used A keyboard and monitor are not required for operation The keyboard and monitor can be substituted for a terminal or PC LPT1 Parallel Port The parallel printer port can be used to support a number of devices PC compatible printer 17 digital I O lines Matrix keypad Multiline displays BuwwNH p
63. nsole and use COM 1 as the console port ignores W2 1 2 Not used default WD Watchdog Timer Pins J umpered Timeout 1 2 1 2 seconds 2 3 0 15 seconds Not jumpered 0 6 seconds default Technical Data 67 CONNECTOR PINOUTS J 1 Keyboard Speaker Port Pin Function Keyboard clock Keyboard data N C Gnd 45V N C N C 45V Speaker Gnd Technical Data 68 J 2 Printer Digital 1 O Port mee feme active low Technical Data 69 J 4 COM1 and J 3 COM2 Serial Ports Function DCD DSR RxD RTS TxD CTS DTR RI Gnd active low Technical Data 70 PC BUS PINOUTS Micro PC A Pin Description Al 1 0 CH CK A2 D7 A3 D6 A4 D5 A5 D4 A6 D3 A7 D2 A8 D1 a9 DO A10 I O CH RDY an AEN a12 A19 a13 A18 a14 A17 A15 A16 a6 A15 l A17 1 0 A18 1 0 A19 1 0 A20 1 0 A21 1 0 A22 1 0 A23 1 0 A24 1 0 A25 00 Js O A27 o fas O A29 O A30 O A31 AM NN All A10 A9 A8 A7 A6 A5 A4 A3 A2 Al AO O O O O O O O O O O O O O O active low Technical Data 71 Micro PC B Pin Description Description DACK1 DRQ1 DAC KO CLOCK Not used IRQ7 DR Q2 l IRQ6 12V l IRQ5 Reser ved Not used IRQ4 12V IRQ3 Analog Gnd DACK2 M EMW T C MEM R ALE 1OW Aux 45V IOR OSC DACK3 Aux Gnd DRQ3 active low Technical Data
64. oot memory and drive options SELECTING BOOT MEMORY AND DRIVE OPTIONS Y ou must specify your system s parameters before you can save and run programs with the 5012A card You define parameters by running the SETUP program For a complete list of the options induded in SETUP please refer to Chapter 4 SETUP As shipped the BIOS drive is selected as the default boot device Autoexecuting the 5012A from a Floppy Hard Disk Drive Type SETUP Using Your Own DOS 56 2 Select the answer to each question by pressing the space bar until the correct information appears then press ENTER Press ESC if you want to exit SETUP without saving your answers or changes to the answers When you reach the Boot from option press the spacebar until Floppy or Hard Disk appears then press lt RETURN gt until SETUP is complete 3 After completing the information for SETUP insert your bootable disk which contains your DOS into the floppy disk drive 4 Reboot the system by typing RESET Your system will boot from the floppy disk Autoexecuting from SSD1 with without a Floppy Drive Installed 1 Create a bootable floppy disk on your PC and copy your DOS version of COMMAND COM all device drivers and necessary application files onto the floppy 2 Copythe file DISKSEND EXE from the 5012A utility disk to your PC 3 Establish a serial communications link between your PC and the 5012A Configure your P
65. r Quick Start 12 Take care to correctly position the 5012A card in the card cage The VCC and ground signals must match those on the backplane Figure 2 2 shows the relative positions of the 5012A card as it is installed in the card cage RSI Card Edge Pins A31 amp B31 5012A Control Card Micro PC Motherboard Card Edge Pins A1 A1 amp B1 Figure 2 2 Edge Connector Orientation Attach the power module to the card cage following the instructions supplied with the power module Make sure power to the card cage is OFF Position the cage so that the backplane is away from you the power module is to the right and the open side of the cage is dosest to you Thelettering on the backplane should be right side up i e you should be able to read A31 on the back plane with the words OCTAGON SYSTEMS CORP running vertically along the left side of the backplane This position is feet down for a table mount cage and feet back for a panel mount Slide the 5012A card into the card cage The components on the card should face to the left The lettering on the card should be on the top edge of the card with the gold contact fingers toward the backplane Quick Start 13 10 WARNING Plugging the card in backwards will destroy the card Plug the 5012A card into the backplane Connect one end of a VTC 9F cable to the null modem adapter Connect the other end to CO
66. r B will generate an error message ABORT RETRY FAIL Press lt A gt or lt gt to cancel your request If in SETUP you entered 1 drive then you can access drive A and requests to access drive B result in the following prompt INSERT FLOPPY INTO DRIVE B AND PRESS ANY KEY Insert another floppy disk and press a key The program then accesses your one drive as drive B When the request is complete a prompt gives you the opportunity to replace the original A floppy In this way systems with only one drive can copy files from one floppy to another If in SETUP you entered 2 drives access to either drive A or drive B work just as they would in a PC If you want to boot from the floppy disk using your own DOS refer to Chapter 12 Using Your Own DOS HARD DISK DRIVE The 5800A Series of Micro PC Floppy Hard Disk Drive Cards support 16 bit IDE type hard drives The disk drive designation for a hard drive will be D if you boot from ROM DOS and C if you boot using your own DOS External Drives 54 CHAPTER 12 USING YOUR OWN DOS DESCRIPTION Use these instructions instead of those in Chapter 2 if you are using your own DOS and not the ROM DOS installed on the BIOS drive Y ou can boot from SSD1 or a floppy hard disk when you use your own DOS Initially you will need to boot from the BIOS drive so that you can run SETUP and specify your system parameters including where you want to boot from
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68. ram to be executed on power up The program is automati cally loaded into DOS memory and executed SSD1A B accepts only 256K flash N28F020 Your application program can be saved to the flash using the on card programmer These devices are erased automatically during the programming process Y ou can write to the flash a limited number of times 100 000 if your application program requires changes 1 Install the first 256K flash directly into SSD1A and the second if applicable into SSD1B making sure to align the notched corner of the flash with the notched corner of the socket see Figure 3 1 RAMs and EPROMs 19 WARNING If you need to remove the flash memory from the sockets be sure to use a PLCC chip puller Failure to use the correct tool could result in damage to the flash SSD 1A SSD 1B Orientation Arrow Notched Corner Figure 3 1 PLCC Orientation After installing a flash in SSD1 you should run the SETUP program to specify the size of device If you change the size of the device in SSD1 you must run SETUP again To Install Static RAMs 1 For static RAMs without battery backup install the static RAM directly into SSD2 Pin 1 should point away from the gold contact fingers of the 5012A card To Install Battery Backup amp Calendar Clock Module 1 Install the DS 1216DM into socket SSD2 Pin 1 of the DS 1216DM should point away from the gold contact fingers of the 5012A card 2 Insert the static
69. ram using the DEMO application AII the files for this application are located on the 5012A utility disk in the DEMO directory 1 Create the directory MPC MD C MPC Save amp Run Programs 30 Insert the utility diskette into drive A and enter the following XCOPY A C MPC S Format a floppy disk on your PC and copy the following files from the C MPC DEMO directory onto the floppy disk COMMAND COM CONFIG SYS AUTOEXEC BAT MEMDRIVE SYS DEMO EXE So that you can access the DISKSEND EXE program change directories as follows you may also want to copy PC SmartLINK into this directory CD MPC 5012A Establish a serial communications link between your PC and the 5012A Configure your PC as the main console for the 5012A i e no video card or keyboard is available On the 5012A execute the DISKSAVE program by typing C gt DISKSAVE Once a connection is made exit from PC SmartLINK using the F9 key From your PC execute the DISKSEND program by typing C gt DISKSEND When prompted for the Input drive to send enter the drive designator for the newly created floppy disk The system will then erase and program the flash This will take several minutes Using a RAM disk or virtual drive on your PC in place of the floppy disk will considerably shorten the time it takes to program the flash Save amp Run Programs 31 10 11 12 13 NOTE If you ar
70. ransfer ring the file filexameext is the name of the file on the 5012A which you are receiving from your PC Execute the TRANSFER program from your PC to send a file to the 5012A C gt TRANSFER COM1 S V lt drive gt lt path gt filename txt filexvameext is the name of the file on the PC which you are sending to the 5012A Transferring Files from the 5012A 1 Connect a VTC 9F cable with a null modem adapter between COM 1 of your PC to COMI of the 5012A Execute the TRANSFER program from the 5012A to send a file to your PC 5012A gt TRANSFER COM1 S V lt drive gt lt path gt filename ext filexvameext is the name of the file on the 5012A which you are sending to your PC Execute the TRANSFER program from your PC to receive the file from the 5012A C gt TRANSFER COM1 R V drive path filename ext filexameext is the name of the file on the PC which you are receiving from the 5012A Video amp Keyboard 52 CHAPTER 11 EXTERNAL DRIVES DESCRIPTION You can use your 5012A Control Card with one or two floppy disk drives and or a hard disk drive This chapter includes installation and operation instructions for each device Also refer to the instruction manuals included with each device For each of the devices below the first step is to install the 5012A Control Card into the Micro PC backplane Refer to the instruc tions in Chapters 4 5 if you will be booting from the BIOS drive or from SSD1 using
71. rd Chapter 11 External Drives Chapter 12 Using Your Own DOS Chapter 13 Troubleshooting Chapter 14 Technical Data Appendix A Software Utilities Appendix B Enabling the watchdog timer and configuring the timeouts Configuring the 5012A with a video keyboard and floppy drive Configuring the 5012A with a floppy drive or hard drive Configuring the 5012A with a version of DOS other than ROM DOS Problems encountered when using the 5012A Technical specifications jumper configurations and connector pinouts Description and operation of software utility programs and device drivers Using non Octagon cables program ming EPROMs uploading files from the 5012A and assigning drive designators Overview 9 This page intentionally left blank Overview 10 CHAPTER 2 QUICK START This chapter covers the basics of setting up a 5012A system and tells you 1 How to install the 5012A into the card cage 2 How to set up a serial communications link between the 5012A and your PC and 3 How to download files to the 5012A and run a program from the virtual drive WARNING The 5012A may not be installed in a PC these cards are designed to be independent CPU cards only not accelerators or coprocessors HARDWARE INSTALLATION Your 5012A Control Card requires one slot in the Micro PC card cage Any slot in the card cage will work The card plugs directly into the backplane motherboard
72. rial and parallel ports a keyboard port a speaker port calendar clock option and 1 MB DRAM up to 2 MB supported and ROM DOS The 5012A is an instant DOS system The card indudes DOS in ROM and two other solid state disks You program the card either through the serial port from your PC or by adding a keyboard monitor and floppy drive The 5012A is compatible with PC expansion cards MAJOR FEATURES ROM DOS Operating System ROM DOS is a MS DOS version 6 22 compatible operating system Since it is stored in ROM it is always present on power up During run time it requires only about 20K of RAM space Watchdog Timer The watchdog timer is used to reset the system if the program stops unexpectedly The watchdog is enabled under software control The timeout is 1 6 seconds Battery Backup and Calendar Clock Option The DS 1216DM offers a battery backed calendar clock option that contains a 99 year calendar Time can be set and read in a 24 hr format with a resolution of 0 01 seconds The dock plugs into a solid state disk socket The clock contains its own dual lithium battery system which has a minimum life of five years A driver is built into the BIOS to handle all the clock functions required by DOS Overview 5 Solid State Disk Options The 5012A has sockets for two solid state disks The boot disk SSD1 accepts one or two 256K flash EPROMs The data disk SSD2 accepts a 128K or 512K static RAM The SSD1 socket
73. rking properly check the following items No Screen Activity Checking Serial Communications for Console If you do not get the sign on message after bootup 1 Make sure all cards except the 5012A card are removed from the card cage This ensures that other cards are not interact ing with the 5012A and that no video card is installed 2 Install W2 1 2 or remove W2 3 4 3 The VTC 9F serial cable turns the 5012A Control Card serial port into a 9 pin AT serial port Make sure a null modem adapter is installed on the other end and that the assembly is inserted into the proper serial port on the PC Make sure the VTC 9F serial cable is connected to J 4 on the Control Card 4 Make sure your power module provides 45V 0 25V 5 After verifying the above conditions you can monitor voltage levels by connecting an oscilloscope between the TxD line on J 4 pin 5 and ground After power up you should see a burst of activity on the oscilloscope screen The voltage level should switch between 47 8V Garbled Screen Activity If you do get activity on your screen but the message is garbled check the following 1 Remove W2 3 4 to force 9600 N 8 1 for COM1 2 If you are using PC SmartLINK make sure you have config ured the software for 9600 baud and have selected the correct serial port for communicating with your PC Refer to the PC SmartLINK manual for information on selecting the baud rate Troubleshooting 59 If yo
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75. te cycles They may be used with a battery back up module Transistor transistor logic compatible 0 5V logic levels A disk created in DOS or extended memory which emulates an actual disk Provides temporary storage for files When power to the computer is turned off the virtual drive disappears A communications protocol which allows transfer of files between two computers A communications protocol for asynchronous connections The receiver can pace the sender by sending the XOFF and XON characters to stop and continue the data flow The suffix H denotes a hexadecimal num ber A decimal number has no prefix or suffix For example 1000H and 4096 are equivalent Preface 3 TECHNICAL SUPPORT If you have a question about the 5012A Control Card and cannot find the answer in this manual call Technical Support They will be ready to give you the assistance you need When you call please have the following at hand Your 5012A Control Card User s Manual A description of your problem The direct line to Technical Support is 303 426 4521 Preface 4 CHAPTER 1 OVERVIEW DESCRIPTION The 5012A PC Control Card is designed for use with Octagon s Micro PC system This system uses small computer cards 4 5 in x 49 in which are 100 percent PC compatible Its small size wide temperature range 40 C to 485 C and rugged CMOS construction makes it ideal for embedded control applications It has PC compatible se
76. transfer a disk into SSD1 DISKSAVE This program saves data to SSD1 This program is used in conjunction with DISKSEND Start DISKSAVE on the 5012A and then start DISKSEND on your PC The following message displays 5012A 6012 DISKSAVE v2 03 Octagon Systems Corp Attempting connection with DISKSAVE on remote host The parameters SSD1A SSD1B are available when SSD1 has been configured for two disks The default configuration programs SSD1 Various communication parameters can be modified on the command line If any of the default parameters are changed other than the COM port the same parameters MUST also be used when invoking DISKSEND Switch Options Default B baud rate 1200 2400 9600 57600 C com port 1 2 3 4 1 D data bits 7 8 8 S stop bits 1 2 1 P parity NONE EVEN ODD NONE H handshake ECHO CTS XON CTS For example to use 2400 baud via COM2 use the following DISKSAVE B2400 C2 Appendix A 75 SEE ALSO Normally only the communication port for DISKSAVE and or the baud rate for both DISKSAVE and DISKSEND will need to be adjusted NOTE The baud rate can be different than the console baud rate set up with SETUP DISKSEND Appendix A 76 DISKSEND E XE PURPOSE SYNTAX REMARKS DISKSEND EXE Support command Totransfer a disk into SSD1 DISKSEND This program reads a diskette from your PC and transfers it to the 5012A It is used in conjunction with DISKSAVE whic
77. tual disk SSD1 SSD2 JUI HEP Bg de If your system has a hard drive drive C in the example above becomes the hard drive and drives C F are now designated as D G When you boot from SSD1 with ROM DOS the drives are desig nated as A floppy disk B floppy disk C SSDL D first driver in CONFIG SYS E second driver in CONFIG SYS Example In the following example of bootup messages the system boots from the BIOS drive with 1MB DRAM 256K flash EPROM in SSD1A and nothing installed in SSD2 The system assigns the following drive designations 5012A MEMDRIVE SYS v2 0 formatting 384KB in expanded memory as drive D 5012A MEMDRIVE SYS v2 0 assigning SSD1A 256 KB as drive E 5012A MEMDRIVE SYS v2 0 SSD1B memory device not found NOTE If a 512K battery backed static RAM was installed in SSD2 the message would read MEMDRIVE SYS v2 0 assigning SSD2 512K as drive F Appendix B 103 EXTENDED MEMORY Once you have installed 1 MB or more of DRAM in your system you can bypass the memory driver and extend the available memory past 640K by using the following instructions This assumes you are not using the extended memory for a virtual drive NOTE These instructions are written in 8086 assembly code Perform the following before your program accesses extended memor y MOVDX 387H To prevent contention disable access to the SSD by writing a 1 to 387H MOVAL 1 OUTDX
78. u are using communications software other than PC SmartLINK Octagon cannot guarantee the operation Make sure that the software parameters are set to match those of the 5012A Control Card 9600 baud 8 bits 1 stop bit no parity System generates a BIOS message but locks up when booting from SSD1 Remove W2 3 4 to force booting from the BIOS drive Press the reset button and reboot Then note the drive designator for SSD1 Display the directory of SSD1 and verify that all the necessary boot files exist If some files are missing you will need to copy any missing files to your floppy disk and re execute the DISKSEND and DISKSAVE programs If no files are missing reprogram SSD1 to overwrite any files which may have become corrupted System boots from BIOS drive even though specified boot from SSD1 using ROM DOS Make sure ROM DOS COMMAND COM resides on SSD1 Booting from SSD1 with DOS doesn t work If you made SSD1 using a floppy drive test the boot files on the floppy drive of your PC Also make sure all the necessary boot files are present Troubleshooting 60 Cannot save programs to flash 1 Make sure the EPROM s are installed in SSD1 correctly and that there are no bent pins If using only one 256K flash EPROM make sure it is installed in socket SSD1A 2 Confirm that the Dallas clock DS1216DM is installed A DS1216D from Dallas SemiConductor will not work properly It requires minor modifications C

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