Specifications

Chapter 1 About This Manual
ReadyBoard 800 Reference Manual 3
• ReadyBox™ Family
The ReadyBox family includes a series of enclosures with varying sizes that accept all of
Ampro's ReadyBoard products. These ReadyBox enclosures allow you to install your
ReadyBoard product with your preferred set of options for a rapidly deployable system for OEM
production volumes. The ReadyBox family provides all of the standard PC style edge connectors
of the ReadyBoard products, which are accessible on the front I/O panel, including three audio
connectors, and a slot for a compact flash card. Depending on the enclosure, you may add PC-
style connectors for two additional serial ports (4 total), two additional USB ports (4 total), and
one parallel port connector. You can add up to tow PC/104, PC/104-Plus, or PCI-104 expansion
boards to the ReadyBox ATX and 2U enclosures. The ReadyBox ATX is powered by an internal
150 W ATX power supply and the ReadyBox 1U and 2U are powered by a AC-DC converter or a
customer-specific DC power supply. A mounting location is provided for the internal 2 ½” hard
disk drive and the external mounting brackets and feet are provided as accessories.. Optional
rack mounting hardware and an optional +12 VDC Brick power supply are provided for the
ReadyBox 1U and 2U enclosures..
• ReadySystem™ Family
The ReadySystem family is a series of high performance, low cost turnkey systems that come
with a ReadyBoard 800 installed into a particular size ReadyBox enclosure with a specific size
SODIMM, and a 2 ½” hard disk drive pre-loaded with one of Ampro's supported operating
systems (Linux®, etc.). The ReadySystem provides all of the ReadyBoard’s standard PC style
connectors accessible on the front I/O panel, including three audio connectors and a slot for a
compact flash card. Depending on the enclosure, you may add PC-style connectors for two
additional serial ports (4 total), two additional USB ports (4 total), and one parallel port
connector. You can install up to two PCI-104 or PC/104-Plus expansion boards into the
ReadySystem ATX and 2U enclosures. A ReadySystem comes pre-tested and ready for
application loading to provide customers with the fastest possible deployment of their embedded
applications. Refer to the specific ReadySystem Users Guide on the web site, or on the
ReadyBoard 800 Documentation and Support Software (Doc & SW) CD-ROM for more
information.
Other ReadyBoard Products
• ReadyBoard™ 700 – This EPIC single board computer (SBC) is used for high volume embedded
applications and provides designers with a low cost, low-power choice of high performance Intel®
933 MHz Low Voltage (LV) Pentium® III, 650 MHz LV Celeron®, or 400 MHz Ultra Low
Voltage (ULV) Celeron® processors. In addition to the standard ReadyBoard features (4.5" x 6.5"
form factor, PC-style connectors, PC/104-Plus, +5 volt only power, etc.), the ReadyBoard 700
supports two primary IDE drives, includes one compact flash socket on secondary IDE, eight GPIO
pins, four RS-232 serial ports with the RS-485/RS-422 option for two ports, dual 10/100BaseT
Ethernet interfaces, four USB v1.1 ports, IrDA, and AC’97 audio ports. It also supports up to
512 MB of SDRAM in an SODIMM socket, up to 32 MB UMA of AGP 4X video with built-in
LVDS, CRT, and 36-bit TFT support, and Ampro embedded BIOS extensions, such as watchdog
timer, battery-free boot, a customizable splash screen, BIOS recovery, and serial console.
• ReadyBoard™ 710 – This EPIC single board computer (SBC) used for high volume embedded
applications provides designers with a low cost, low-power alternative to the high cost of high
performance processors. Through the use of advanced chipset technology with the Intel 650
MHz Low Voltage (LV) Celeron CPU, the ReadyBoard 710 provides DDR memory, USB 2.0
ports, Gigabit Ethernet. In addition to the standard ReadyBoard features (4.5" x 6.5" form factor,
PC-style connectors, PCI-104, +5 volt only power, etc.), the ReadyBoard 710 supports two
primary IDE drives, includes one compact flash socket on secondary IDE, eight GPIO pins, four
RS-232 serial ports with the RS-485/RS-422 option for two ports, 10/100BaseT and 1000BaseT
Gigabit Ethernet interfaces, four USB 2.0 ports, IrDA, and AC’97 audio solution. It also supports
up to 1 GB of DDR SDRAM in an SODIMM socket, up to 64 MB UMA of AGP 8X equivalent
video with built-in LVDS, CRT, and 24-bit TFT support, and Ampro embedded BIOS
extensions, such as watchdog timer, battery-free boot, a customizable splash screen, BIOS
recovery, and serial console.