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440Bx Scalable Performance Board Development Kit Manual 13

Getting Started

2.2 Included Hardware

• Evaluation board (baseboard and processor assembly combination)

• 4.3-Gbyte hard disk drive pre-loaded with the QNX Real Time Operating System*

• 32-Mbyte, 100-MHz SDRAM DIMM

• Attached heatsink and fan

• PCI video graphics adapter

• Intel

PRO/100+ Adapter - 82559-based Ethernet network adapter

• Mounting hardware

• IDE cable for the hard disk drive

2.3 Software Key Features

The software in the kit is included to facilitate development of real-time applications based on the

components used in the evaluation board. The software tools included in your kit are described in

this section.

Refer to the letter included in your kit for up to date information about other vendors offering

development software for this kit.

Note: Software in the kit is provided free by the vendor and is only licensed for evaluation purposes.

Customers using the tools that work with Microsoft products must have licensed those products.

Any targets created by those tools should also have appropriate licenses. Software included in the

kit is subject to change.

2.3.1 General Software, Inc.

General Software’s Embedded BIOS* is a full-featured BIOS for x86-based handheld, applied

computing, and volume consumer electronics applications. This product offers a winning

combination of superior OEM configurability and superior embedded features.

Intel selected Embedded BIOS as the standard pre-installed pre-boot firmware for this design. The

following features of Embedded BIOS have been enabled in this Intel development kit:

• SDRAM detection, configuration and initialization

• L2 cache configuration and initialization

• Intel 440BX Northbridge configuration and initialization

• PIIX4E Southbridge configuration and initialization

• POST codes displayed to POST code monitor

• Two serial ports, one EPP/ECP parallel port

• PCI bus and device enumeration and configuration

• AGP configuration and initialization

• SMC FDC37B787 Super I/O programming

• Integrated debugger

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