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Board Layout



Connectors


J1 - Floppy diskette



   1   ground           2   speed           3   ground
   4   n/c              5   ground          6   n/c
   7   ground           8   index           9   ground
   10  motor on 1       11  ground          12  drive sel 2
   13  ground           14  motor sel 1     15  ground
   16  motor on 2       17  ground          18  direction
   19  ground           20  stop step       21  ground
   22  write data       23  ground          24  write gate
   25  ground           26  track 0         27  ground
   28  write protect    29  ground          30  read data
   31  ground           32  side select     33  ground
   34  disk change
   

J2 - IDE Hard Disk



   1   reset            2   ground          3   data 7
   4   data 8           5   data 6          6   data 9
   7   data 5           8   data 10         9   data 4
   10  data 11          11  data 3          12  data 12
   13  data 2           14  data 13         15  data 1
   16  data 14          17  data 0          18  data 15
   19  ground           20  n/c             21  n/c
   22  ground           23  iow             24  ground
   25  ior              26  ground          27  n/c
   28  bale             29  n/c             30  ground
   31  idint            32  n/c             33  sa1
   34  n/c              35  sa0             36  sa2
   37  cs5              38  hcs1            39  n/c
   40  n/c
   

J3 - BC I/O Connector



   1   gnd              2   n/c             3   ledsel-
   4   lanled           5   ideled          6   txdiled
   7   rxdiled          8   n/c             9   dtriled
   10  dcdiled          11  spkr            12  resetsw-
   13  ack              14  poll            15  mseclk
   16  mse data         17  kclk            18  kdata
   19  + 5vf            20  vsync           21  hsync
   22  gnd              23  blu             24  grn
   25  red              26  gnd
   

J4 - Reset Connector



   1  Resistor pull-up for Power on LED
   2  not used
   3  Reset switch (ground to reset computer)
   4  IDE Drive LED
   5  Ground
   

J5 - Speaker Connector



   1  Speaker data
   2  n/c                                      
   3  Ground
   4  +5V (speaker power)
   

J6 - Supervisory Interface



   1  ack (to supervisor)
   2  not used
   3  poll (from supervisor)
   4  not used
   

J7 - LPT1

This header requires a optional I/O adapter from Cubix. Attempting to connect a device directly to this connector will damage the board.


J8 - COMM 2



   1  DCD  (data carrier detect)
   2  RD   (receive data)
   3  TD   (transmit data)
   4  DTR  (data terminal ready)
   5  GND  (ground)
   6  DSR  (data set ready)
   7  RTS  (request to send)
   8  CTS  (clear to send)
   9  RI   (ring indicator)

Note: The COM2 header requires a optional I/O adapter from Cubix.
Attempting to connect a serial device directly to this connector
will damage the board.  


J9 - PS/2 Mouse Connector

This header requires a optional I/O adapter from Cubix. Attempting to connect a PS/2 mouse directly to this connector will damage the board.


J10 - Video/Kybd Mux Connector

This header is for connection to the Optional Cubix Video Mux.



   1  Red               2  Ground
   3  Green             4  Ground
   5  Blue              6  Ground
   7  Hsync             8  Ground
   9  Vsync             10 mse data
   11 Kclk              12 mse clk
   13 Kdata             14 +5 (fused)
   

J11 - COMM 1



   1  DCD  (data carrier detect)
   2  RD   (receive data)
   3  TD   (transmit data)
   4  DTR  (data terminal ready)
   5  GND  (ground)
   6  DSR  (data set ready)
   7  RTS  (request to send)
   8  CTS  (clear to send)
   9  RI   (ring indicator)
   

J12 - Line Busy (RJ11)



   1  n/c 
   2  n/c
   3  tip   
   4  ring
   5  n/c
   6  n/c
   

J13 - 10 Base-t Ethernet (RJ45)



   1  transmit data (+)
   2  transmit data (-)
   3  Receive data (+)
   4  n/c           
   5  n/c
   6  receive data (-)
   7  n/c
   8  n/c
   

 


Switch & Jumper Settings


Jumper JP1 & JP2 - Processor Select

Factory configured - should not be changed.



        Jumper  JP1         Jumper  JP2
            1-2              1-2    3-4        

            off              on     off       DX-33, DX2-66, DX4-100
			

Switch 1 - Reset on Loss of DCD or DSR

  SW1 SW2
Reset when DSR drops on COM1 on off
Reset when DCD drops on COM1 off on
Reset when DCD or DSR drops on COM1 on on
Reset disabled off off

 


Switch 2 - Board Options and Interrupts

  SW1 SW2 SW3 SW4 SW5 SW6 SW7 SW8
Enable Video controller   on            
Disable Video controller   off            
Supervisory IRQ to 10     on off        
Supervisory IRQ to 15     off on        
Disable Supervisory IRQ     off off        
PS/2 Mouse on IRQ 12         on      
Disable PS/2 Mouse         off      
Enable Ethernet controller on         off off off
Disable Ethernet Controller off         off off off
  

IRQ, I/O, SIMM's & Memory Map


Simm Module configuration

All BC system memory is provided in 72-pin by 36 bit standard 70ns SIMM modules. For the proper placing of SIMM modules, see table below.



 Simm Socket    1       2          Total

                4                    4MB
                4       4            8MB
                8       4           12MB
                8       8           16MB
                16                  16MB
                4       16          20MB
                16      16          32MB
                32      16          48MB
                32      32          64MB
                64                  64MB
                64      64         128MB
				

IRQ Information



    IRQ        Description

     0         Timer Click
     1         Keyboard
     2         Second PIC controller
     3         COM2/Ethernet (sw2)
     4         COM1
     5         Available/Ethernet (sw2)
     6         Floppy Disk Controller
     7         LPT1
     8         Real-Time Clock
     9         Redirected IRQ2
     10        Available/Supervisory (sw2)
     11        Available
     12        Available/PS2 Mouse (sw2)
     13        Math Coprocessor
     14        Fixed Disk Controller
     15        Available/Supervisory (sw2)
	 

I/O Map



 0000-00FF  Various "AT" functions
 01F0-01F7  IDE hard drive interface
 02F8-02FF  COM 2
 0300-0317  Ethernet controller
 03A0       Cubix Supervisory system interface
 03A8-03AF  IES serial port
 03B4-03B5  VGA
 03BC-03BF  LPT1
 03C0-03CF  VGA
 03D4-03D5  VGA
 03F0-03F7  Floppy/IDE
 03F8-03FF  COM 1


 EISA Ports

 0400-04FF  Used by EISA chipset
 0C00-0CFF  Used by EISA chipset
 

Memory Configuration



   FFFF /------------------\
        |     32KB         |   F800-FFFF  Reserved for AMI ROM BIOS.
   F800 |------------------|
        |      4KB         |   F700-F7FF  Available
   F700 |------------------|
        |     28KB         |   F000-F6FF  Reserved for AMI ROM BIOS
   F000 |------------------|
        |                  |
        |    128K          |   C800-EFFF  Available as Expanded
        |                  |              (EMS) or Upper Memory (UMB)
        |                  |
        |                  |
   D000 |------------------|   D000-EFFF  Available
        |     32K          |
        |                  |
   C800 |------------------|   C800-CFFF  Remote Boot ROM (if enabled)
        |     32K          |   C000-C7FF  Reserved for VGA BIOS
        |                  |
   C000 |------------------|
        |     32K          |   B800-BFFF  VGA/CGA Video Memory
        |                  |
   B800 |------------------|
        |     32K          |   B000-B7FF  VGA/Mono Video Memory
        |                  |
   B000 |------------------|
        |     64K          |   A000-AFFF  VGA Video Memory
        |                  |
   A000 |------------------|
        |                  |   0000-9FFF  Conventional DOS
        |    640K          |
        |                  |
        |                  |
        |                  |
        |                  |
   0000 \------------------/
   

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