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Pegasus Fast Start Guide DSC Document #7460572 Rev A Pegasus is a rugged, low ‐ power PC/104 ‐ Plus Single Board Computer (SBC) with a 500MHz AMD LX800 CPU, 256MB of on ‐ board DRAM and an optional 2GB on ‐ boa[...]
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Pegasus Fast Start Guide 7460572 Rev A Page 2 of 12 CONNECTOR FUNCTIONS The board conforms to PC/104 specifications for the four corners and four mounting holes. Wings, or extensions on the left and right sides, provide additional room[...]
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Pegasus Fast Start Guide 7460572 Rev A Page 3 of 12 Figure 2. Pegasus bottom drawing showing connector and jumper locations The following pages describe the pin outs for the Pegasus connectors. Unless otherwise indicated, pins m[...]
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Pegasus Fast Start Guide 7460572 Rev A Page 4 of 12 MAIN POWER INPUT CONNECTOR (PWR1) Input power may be supplied either through this connector, the I/O power connector, or directly through the PC/104 bus power pins. Ground 1 2 [...]
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Pegasus Fast Start Guide 7460572 Rev A Page 5 of 12 SERIAL PORT CONNECTOR (COM1) This connector provides access to the 2 serial ports from the CPU chip. Port 1 is RS ‐ 232 only and Port 2 may be jumper ‐ configured for RS ‐ 2[...]
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Pegasus Fast Start Guide 7460572 Rev A Page 6 of 12 PS/2 KEYBOARD / MOUSE CONNECTOR (KBMS1) This connector provides the standard PS/2 keyboard and mouse signals. +5V 1 2 +5V KB Data 3 4 MS Data KB Clock 5 6 MS Clock [...]
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Pegasus Fast Start Guide 7460572 Rev A Page 7 of 12 VGA CONNECTOR (VGA1) This connector provides the connection for a VGA display. CRed 1 2 Ground CGreen 3 4 Key CGlue 5 6 Ground CHSync 7 8 DDC Data CVSync 9 10 DDC [...]
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Pegasus Fast Start Guide 7460572 Rev A Page 8 of 12 JUMPER FUNCTIONS COM2 RS ‐ 232/422/485 SELECTION (JRS1) Using jumper JRS1, the COM2 port can be configured to operate in RS ‐ 232, RS ‐ 422 or RS ‐ 485 mode. Mode Pins 1 ‐ 2 [...]
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Pegasus Fast Start Guide 7460572 Rev A Page 9 of 12 LVDS PANEL VOLTAGE SELECT (JVLCD1) Using jumper JVLCD1, the input power voltage for the LVDS panel can be selected. Voltage Jumper Setting +5V Pins 1 & 2 +12V (Default) Pins 2[...]
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Pegasus Fast Start Guide 7460572 Rev A Page 10 of 12 POWERING ON PEGASUS Follow these steps to power on and verify the functionality of the Pegas us SBC. Thi s process assumes you have a Pegasus SBC and cable kit. 1. Connect a [...]
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Pegasus Fast Start Guide 7460572 Rev A Page 11 of 12 BIOS CONFIGURATION FOR THE ISA BUS I/O ADDRESSES The default configuration for the ISA bus is as follows. Together these two connectors comprise connector PC104PI. IOCHCHK ‐?[...]
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Pegasus Fast Start Guide 7460572 Rev A Page 12 of 12 CONFIGURING IDE DEVICES The on ‐ board PCI IDE connector supports two IDE devices: a primary master and a primary slave. The supported IDE devices include the on ‐ board flashdisk, a[...]