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Order Accessories Part Number Description ® 6th Gen Intel Core™ i7-6700 Processor i7-6700 (8M Cache, up to 4.00 GHz) ® 6th Gen Intel Core™ i7-6700TE Processor i7-6700TE (8M Cache, up to 3.40 GHz) ® 6th Gen Intel Core™ i5-6500 Processor i5-6500 (6M Cache, up to 3.60 GHz) ®...
1.5.7 Dimensions of ECS-9000-4G 1.5.8 Dimensions of ECS-9000-4R 1.5.9 Dimensions of ECS-9000-2G 1.5.10 Dimensions of ECS-9000-2R CHAPTER 2 GETTING TO KNOW YOUR ECS-9000 2.1 Packing List 2.2 Front Panel I/O Functions 2.3 Rear Panel I/O and Functions 2.4 Main Board Expansion Connectors...
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2.5 Main Board Jumper & Deep Switch Settings 2.6 Ignition Control CHAPTER 3 SYSTEM SETUP 3.1 How to Open Your ECS-9000 3.2 Installing CPU 3.3 Installing DDR4 SO-DIMM Modules 3.4 Installing Mini PCIe Card 3.5 Installing Antenna Cable 3.6 Installing CFast Card 3.7 Installing SIM Card...
HD Graphics 530 supporting DirectX 12, OpenGL 4.4 and OpenCL 2.0 API, onboard DVI-I, DVI-D and DisplayPort display interface for Ultra HD 4K resolution, ECS-9000 offers new generation CPU performance, power efficiency, and graphics performance; PCIe 3.0 (8GT/s), Multiple SATA III (6Gbps), USB 3.0 (5Gbps), PoE (1Gbps) LAN and multiple wireless connections...
• Full function SUMIT A, B expansion (Optional) • 16 Isolated DIO (Optional) • 6V to 36V DC Power Input with 80V Surge Protection • Configurable Ignition Power Control 1.3 Product Specification 1.3.1 Specifications of ECS-9000-9GD System ® Processor Intel Core™...
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Expansion Mini PCIe 3 Mini PCIe Socket : • 2 Full-size for PCIe/ USB/ External SIM Card/ mSATA • 1 Half-size for PCIe/ USB 3.0/ External SIM Card Graphics ® Graphics Processor Intel HD Graphics 530 Interface • DVI-I : Up to 1920 x 1200 @ 60Hz •...
1.3.7 Specifications of ECS-9000-4G System ® Processor Intel Core™ i7-6700/ i7-6700TE/ i5-6500/ i5-6500TE/ i3-6100/ i3-6100TE Processor (Skylake-S) ® Chipset Intel C236 BIOS IT8786E Memory • DDR4 2133MHz • Up to 32GB • 2 260-pin SO-DIMM Socket I/O Interface Serial 4 COM RS-232/ 422/ 485 w/ auto flow control •...
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® LAN 1 Intel I219LM GigE LAN supports iAMT 11.0 ® LAN 2 Intel I210 GigE LAN ® LAN 3 Intel I210 GigE LAN ® LAN 4 Intel I210 GigE LAN Power Input Voltage 6V to 36V, DC-in Power Interface •...
1.3.8 Specifications of ECS-9000-4R System ® Processor Intel Core™ i7-6700/ i7-6700TE/ i5-6500/ i5-6500TE/ i3-6100/ i3-6100TE Processor (Skylake-S) ® Chipset Intel C236 BIOS IT8786E Memory • DDR4 2133MHz • Up to 32GB • 2 260-pin SO-DIMM Socket I/O Interface Serial 4 COM RS-232/ 422/ 485 w/ auto flow control •...
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® LAN 1 Intel I219LM GigE LAN supports iAMT 11.0 ® LAN 2 Intel I210 GigE LAN ® LAN 3 Intel I210 GigE LAN ® LAN 4 Intel I210 GigE LAN Power Input Voltage 6V to 36V, DC-in Power Interface •...
2.1 Packing List Item Description ECS-9000 Fanless Embedded System (According to the configuration of you order, the ECS-9000 series may contain SSD/HDD and DDR4 SO-DIMM. Please verify these items if necessary.) ECS-9000-9GD/PoE/6F/4G/2G accessory box, which contains ● Vecow Drivers & Utilities DVD ●...
2.2 Front Panel I/O Functions In Vecow ECS-9000 series family, all I/O connectors are located on front panel and rear panel. Most of the general connections to computer device, such as USB, LAN Jack, Display, DVI-D, Display Port and any additional storage, are placed on the front panel.
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Flash card. It is implemented by a SATA III Port from CM236 PCH. Be sure to disconnect the power source and unscrew the CFast socket cover before installing a CFast card. The ECS-9000 does not support the CFast hot swap and PnP (Plug and Play) functions. It is necessary to remove power source first before inserting or removing the CFast card.
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DVI signal. The DVI output mode supports up to 1920 x 1200 resolution and output mode supports up to 1920 x 1200 resolution. The DVI is automatically selected according to the display device connected. You will need a DVI-D cable when connecting to a display device. GETTING TO KNOW YOUR ECS-9000...
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There are 4 USB 3.0 connections available supporting up to 5GB per second data rate in the front side of ECS-9000. It also compliant with the requirements of Super Speed (SS), high speed (HS), full speed (FS) and low speed (LS).
SIM 3 WLAN CFast DVI-I There are 2 audio connectors, Mic-in and Line-out, in the front side of ECS-9000. Onboard Realtek ALC892 audio codec supports 5.1 channel HD audio and fully ® complies with Intel High Definition Audio (Azalia) specifications. To utilize the audio function in Windows platform, you need to install corresponding drivers for both Intel CM236 chipset and Realtek ALC892 codec.
RS-232 RS-422 RS-422 RS-485 Port (5-wire) (9-wire) (3-wire) TXD- TXD- DATA- TXD+ TXD+ DATA+ RXD+ RXD+ ----------- RXD- RXD- ----------- 1 to 4 ----------- RTS- ----------- ----------- RTS+ ----------- ----------- CTS+ ----------- ----------- CTS- ----------- GETTING TO KNOW YOUR ECS-9000...
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LAN 6 On / Off Power Switch There are 4 RJ45 connectors in the rear side of ECS-9000. It supports IEEE 802.3at (PoE ) Power over Ethernet (PoE) connection delivering up to 37W/ 54V per port and 1000BASE-T GigE data signals over standard Ethernet Cat ®...
POE LED LED Color POE Status LED 3 - 6 Solid Green POE ON 2.4 Main Board Expansion Connectors 2.4.1 Top View of ECS-9000 Main Board With Connector Location M2 CN1 FAN1 SATA2 SATA1 CN14 Battery Mini PCIe 1 SATA3...
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2.4.2 Bottom View of ECS-9000 Main Board With Connector Location CN10 2.4.3 Miscellaneous Pin Header 2.0mm 2x4p header This pin header can be used as a backup for following functions, hard drive LED indicator, reset button, power LED indicator, and power-on/ off button, which already can be accessed by front panel and top panel.
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POWER LED PWR_LED_N FP_PWR_BTN_IN POWER BUTTON Ground 2.4.4 SATA III Connector There are 3 onboard high performance Serial ATA III (SATA III) on ECS-9000. It supports higher storage capacity with less cabling effort and smaller required space. SATA1 SATA2 SATA3...
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2.4.5 SATA Power Connector The ECS-9000 also equip with a SATA power connector. The one port supports 5V (Up to 2A) and 12V (Up to 2A) current to the hard drive or SSD. The pin assignments of J3 , J4 are listed in the following table: Pin No.
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It also compliant with the requirements of SuperSpeed (SS), high speed (HS), full speed (FS) and low speed (LS). The pin assignments of CN14 are listed in the following table: Connector Pin No. Description Pin No. Description USB_VCC StdA_SSRX+ USBD- GND_DRAIN CN12 USBD+ StdA_SSTX− StdA_SSTX+ StdA_SSRX− GETTING TO KNOW YOUR ECS-9000...
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Standard full length Mini PCIe slot: Mini PCIe 1 Mini PCIe 2 Mini PCIe 3 Pin Out: Pin No. Function Pin No. Function Reserved +3.3Vaux Reserved Reserved +1.5V Reserved Reserved Reserved +3.3Vaux Reserved +3.3Vaux USB_D+ USB_D- PETp0 PETn0 SMB_DATA GETTING TO KNOW YOUR ECS-9000...
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2.4.14 LPC Port 80 Header The system's provide a LPC Port 80 Header for debug card. CN37 Pin out: Pin No. Function Pin No. Function SERIRQ LFRAME# +3.3V LAD0 RESET# Ground LAD1 CLOCK LAD2 Ground GETTING TO KNOW YOUR ECS-9000...
2.5 Main Board Jumper & Deep Switch Settings 2.5.1 Top View of ECS-9000 With Jumper and Deep Switch CN14 The figure below is the top view of the system board, and it shows the location of the jumpers and the switches.
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2.5.5 POE Power ON Select Jumper Setting Function POE power on at standby power ready POE power on after system power on (Default) 2.5.6 CMOS & ME Clear Jumper Setting Function *Normal (Default) Clear CMOS GETTING TO KNOW YOUR ECS-9000...
2.6.1 Adjust Ignition Control Modes ECS-9000 series provides 16 modes of different power on/off delay periods adjustable via SW5 switch. The default rotary switch is set to 0 in ATX/ AT power mode.
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Note: 1. DC power source and IGN share the same ground. 2. ECS-9000 supports 6V~36V wide range DC power input in ATX/AT mode. In Ignition mode, the input voltage is fixed to 12V/24V for car battery scenario. 3. For proper ignition control, the power button setting should be “Power down”...
SYSTEM SETUP 3.1 How to Open Your ECS-9000 3.1.1 ECS-9000-R Series Step 1 Remove front panel six KHS#6-32 screws then pick up front panel. Step 2 Remove rear panel five KHS#6-32 screws. HARDWARE INSTALLATION...
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3.1.2 ECS-9000-F/ G/ PoE Serise Step 1 Remove front panel six KHS#6-32 screws then pick up front panel. Step 2 Remove rear panel five KHS#6-32 screws. HARDWARE INSTALLATION...
3.2 Installing CPU Step 1 Remove one F #6-32 and pick up chock bracket. Step 2 Remove eleven PH-M3 screws and pick up mother board. HARDWARE INSTALLATION...
3.6 Installing CFast Card Step 1 Remove two F-M3x4 screws on CFast Card and SIM Card cover from the front panel. Step 2 Remove CFast Card and SIM Card cover. HARDWARE INSTALLATION...
3.7 Installing SIM Card Step 1 Remove two F-M3x4 screws on CFast Card and SIM Card cover from the front panel. Step 2 Remove CFast Card and SIM Card cover. HARDWARE INSTALLATION...
3.10 Mounting Your ECS-9000 3.10.1 Wall Mount Bracket Step 1 Ensure the screw holes on the right and left side of the upper case match the ones on ECS-9000 wall mount bracket. HARDWARE INSTALLATION...
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3.10.2 VESA Mount Step 1 ECS-9000 and VESA Mount. Step 2 Take ECS-9000 and VESA Mount with fasten four KHS#6-32 screws HARDWARE INSTALLATION...
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3.10.3 Din Rail Kit Step 1 ECS-9000 and Din Rail Kit. Step 2 Take ECS-9000 and VESA Mount with fasten four KHS#6-32 screws HARDWARE INSTALLATION...
BIOS SETUP 4.1 BIOS Settings Figure 4-1: Entering Setup Screen BIOS provides an interface for users to check and change system configuration. The BIOS setup program is accessed by pressing the <Del> key when POST display output is shown. BIOS AND DRIVER SETTING...
4.3.1 ACPI Settings Figure 4 3-1: ACPI Settings Enable Hibernation Enables or disables system's ability to hibernate (OS/S4 sleep state). This option may not be effective with some OS. ACPI Sleep State Selects the highest ACPI sleep state the system will enter when the SUSPEND button is pressed.
Serial Port 3 Configuration Set parameters of serial port 3 (COM3). Serial Port 4 Configuration Set parameters of serial port 4 (COM4). 4.3.6 Hardware Monitor Figure 4 3-6: Hardware Monitor Settings The IT8786 SIO features an enhanced hardware monitor providing thermal, fan speed, and system voltages' status monitoring.
CPU C state Enable or disable CPU C states. Enhanced C-states Enable/disable C1E. When enabled, CPU will switch to minimum speed when all cores enter C-State. Package C State limit Package C State limit. Intel TXT(LT) Support Enables or disables Intel (R) TXT (LT) support. 4.3.9 Intel TXT Information Figure 4 3-9: Intel TXT Information Display Intel TXT information.
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4.3.12 CSM Configuration Figure 4 3-12: CSM Settings CSM Support Enable/disable CSM support GateA20 Active UPON REQUEST - GA20 can be disabled using BIOS services. ALWAYS - do not allow GA20 to be disabled; this option is useful when any RT code is executed above 1MB.
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4.4.4 Memory Information Figure 4-4-4: Memory Information Displays memory information. 4.4.5 PCH-IO Configuration Figure 4-4-5: PCH-IO Settings PCH LAN Controller Enable or disable onboard NIC. Wake on LAN Enable or disable integrated LAN to wake the system. (The wake On LAN cannot be disabled if ME is on at Sx state.) Serial IRQ Mode Configure serial IRQ mode.
4.6 Boot Figure 4-6: BIOS Boot Menu Setup Prompt Timeout Number of seconds to wait for setup activation key. 65535(0xFFFF) means indefinite waiting. Bootup NumLock State Select the keyboard NumLock state. Quiet Boot Enables or disables Quiet Boot option. Boot Option #x Sets the system boot order.
0xA07 A.2 Function Description The ECS-9000 offers a 16-bit DIO (8-DI/ 8-DO) 20-pin terminal block connector. Each bit of DI and DO equipped with a photo-coupler for isolated protection. All IO pins are fixed by Hardware design and cannot change in/out direction in runtime process.
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A.4 Software Package contain There are two folders with the following inside: ● Driver folder includes x32 & x64 versions ● Runtime folder includes DLL and header file for software developer or system integration ● Sample folder includes sample program A.5 Driver Install In Driver folder, you can find the files below inside.
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A.6 DIO Demo Tool Execute DIO demo tool (ECS9K.exe). Operation on DIO demo tool utility. Operation on DIO / WDT / PoE Demo tool utility. Click “Read” Button to get value; Input any number in Write and Write Mask textbox, and click “Write” Button to set value. On DIO Panel, Check the DO circuit for “NPN”...
Advanced → SATA Configuration → SATA Mode Selection C.2 OS Installation ECS-9000 is featured with seven SATA, include two internal SATA, two mSATA, 1 SATA DOM, 1 M2DOM, and 1 CFast. You can select one of SATA ports for OS installation We used CFast card for Windows 10 OS installation as an example.
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C.6 Create RAID Volume on “Rapid Storage Technology” Software ECS-9000 is featured with seven SATA storage devices for RAID volume, so there are three options for choose on this page. Let’s take RAID 1 as example, please select ”RAID 1”.
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C.7 Disk Management : Partition the Disk After RAID 1 volume created, you can see the figure of SATA device allocation. You will find “Volume_0000” in SATA device at BIOS menu. To start Disk Management tool, select "initialize disk." Then add “Logical Device” for Windows access. C.8 If One SATA HDD on RAID Volume is Out-of-use After RAID 1 volume created, you can see the figure of SATA device allocation.
APPENDIX D : Power Consumption Testing Board ECS-9000 16GB X 2 USB-1 USB Keyboard Logitech K120 USB-2 USB Mouse Microsoft 1113 USB-3 USB Flash Transcend 3.0 8GB USB-4 USB Flash Transcend 3.0 8GB CFAST Transcend CFX600 SATA 0 Transcend SSD370 64GB...
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™ D.2 Intel® Core i5-6500TE@2.3GHz (6M Cache, 4.0 GHz) Power on and boot to Win7 64bit Idle Status : Standby Mode CPU usage less 3% Power Input Current Consumption Current Consumption Core™ i5- 1.057A 06.34W 3.497A 20.98W 6500TE Core™ i5- 0.693A 06.24W 2.263A...