This product is a compact, full-featured PC compatible Single Board Computer based on the AMD Elan520 processor. At 133 MHz, it is approximately 10 times faster than our other 386EX based products for only a small additional cost. PC compatibility allows for rapid development since you can use standard PC development tools such as Turbo C or Power Basic or Linux based tools as well. If you have done work in the PC world in the past, you will find you can now build applications for a very small target that does not require a keyboard, video, floppy disks, or hard drives.

Additional features include:

• PC compatible based on AMD Elan 520 @ 133 MHz
  • 2 PC/AT standard serial ports with 16 Byte FIFOs
  • PC/AT standard DMA controller PC/AT standard Floating Point Unit
  • PC/AT standard interrupt control unit
  • PC/AT standard timer/counter unit
  • Watchdog timer unit
• On-board Real Time Clock
• 16 MB of High Speed SDRAM (64 MB RAM optional)
• 2 MB Flash disk with full BIOS support
• Compact Flash Card interfaced as IDE0
• 10 Mbit Ethernet interface - LED indicators
• 40 DIO lines (IRQ capable)
• Alphanumeric LCD interface
• Matrix Keypad interface on DIO2
• PC/104 8/16 bit bus
• Rugged quick-release terminal strips used for power
• Dimensions are 4.0" x 5.4" (PC/104 mounting holes)
• Power requirements are 5V DC @ 800 mA
• Operating Temperature Range: Fanless  -20° to +70°C 
• Optional Extended Temperature Range  -40° to +80°C 
• Optional RS-485 support on COM1 (full or half duplex)

PC compatibility requires much more than just an x86 processor. It requires PC compatible memory and I/O maps as well as a PC compatible BIOS. The General Software EMBEDDED BIOS (Version 4.3) offers a high degree of compatibility with past and present BIOS standards allowing it to run off-the shelf operating systems and application software. This PC compatible BIOS boots to IDE Compact Flash or Drive A and the BIOS is shadowed in RAM for speed.

The TS-5000 computers are shipped, free of charge, with Embedded DOS ROM by General Software. They can also be shipped upon request with Linux pre-installed for a nominal fee. The Linux file system and kernel is also freely available on the web should you wish to install it yourself. Typically, the Linux OS requires a 16MB or larger Compact Flash or an M-Systems DiskOnChip.

embeddedTS Embedded PCs are compatible with a wide variety of x86-based operating systems. A partial list OS's currently used with our boards by customers includes:

• TNT Embedded Toolsuite, Phar Lap Software
• UCos II
• RTKernel, On Time Software
• RTEMS, On-Line Applications Research Corporation
• DOS with WATTCP, public domain TCP/IP source code for DOS
• Linux

Linux features

• Available with Linux 2.4 kernel installed on 64 MB or higher Compact Flash
• Small Linux Initial Ramdisk can fit into onboard 2 MB Flash Drive

DOS Features

• General Software DOS-ROM included
• Full TCP/IP library for DOS (Waterloo TCP/IP) with source code included
• Web server with full source code that can control DIO pins
• Transfer files to and from the SBC with Zmodem
• Console redirection over a serial port
• Example programs with source code included
• BIOS natively supports Matrix Keypad masqueraded as normal keyboard input to applications with alphanumeric LCD masqueraded as Video Output

OS Compatibility List

• uC/OS-II Real-time multi-tasking kernel
• eRTOS embedded Real-Time Operating System
• microCommander Modular HMI & automation software
• MicroDigital SMX Modular RTOS for embedded systems
• QNX Embedded real-time operating system