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Fan Control ................30 Feature List ................13 Additional Features ..............31 Supported Operating Systems ..........14 congatec Board Controller (cGB) ..........31 Mechanical Dimensions ............14 Board Information ..............31 Supply Voltage Standard Power ..........15 Watchdog ................31 2.4.1...
The conga-QA6 is currently available in several different variants. This user’s guide describes the available features these different variants offer. Below you will find an order table showing the base configuration modules that are currently offered by congatec AG. For more information about the additional conga-QA6 variants offered by congatec, contact your local congatec sales representative or visit the congatec website at www.congatec.com.
Optionally equipped with a Solid State Drive (SSD) up to 32 GByte in capacity BIOS AMI Aptio UEFI 2.x firmware, 4MByte serial SPI with congatec Embedded BIOS features ® Power Mgmt. ACPI 3.0 compliant with battery support. Also supports Suspend to RAM (S3).
Power Consumption The power consumption values were measured with the following setup: • conga-QA6 • modified congatec carrier board • conga-QA6 cooling solution • Microsoft Windows 7 (32 bit) Note The CPU was stressed to its maximum workload with the Intel Thermal Analysis Tool ®...
RTC battery within a system featuring this chipset will be depleted after as little as 8 months. congatec solves this RTC current leakage problem by using the onboard board controller found on the conga-QA6. When the conga-QA6 is powered off, the EG20T RTC is disconnected and the onboard board controller’s RTC is used. When the conga-QA6 is restarted, the BIOS overwrites the EG20T system clock with the correct one provided by the congatec board controller.
4. We recommend to always have a CMOS battery present when operating the conga-MA5. Environmental Specifications The above operating temperatures must be strictly adhered to at all times. When using a congatec heatspreader, the maximum operating temperature refers to any measurable spot on the heatspreader’s surface. Humidity specifications are for non-condensing conditions.
(-40° to 85°C), use of the conga-QA6 heatspreaders is not recommended by congatec and furthermore its use is at the risk of the end user. It is the responsibility of the end user to design an optimized thermal solution that meets the needs of their application within the industrial environmental conditions it is required to operate in.
Qseven Design Guide. Caution When using the heatspreader in a high shock and/or vibration environment, congatec recommends the use of a thread-locking fluid on the heatspreader screws to ensure the above mentioned torque specification is maintained.
Note For conga-QA6 rev C.x and earlier, congatec AG reccommends not to connect the center-taps of the magnetics to either each other or to CTREF pin. Serial ATA™ (SATA)
The conga-QA6 is equipped with a multi stage watchdog solution that can be triggered by software or external hardware. For more information about the Watchdog feature see the BIOS setup description of this document and application note AN3_Watchdog.pdf on the congatec AG website at www.congatec.com.
The conga-QA6 is equipped with an STMicroelectronics STM32F100R8 microcontroller. This onboard microcontroller plays an important role for most of the congatec BIOS features. It fully isolates some of the embedded features such as system monitoring or the I²C bus from the x86 core architecture, which results in higher embedded feature performance and more reliability, even when the x86 processor is in a low power mode.
OEM BIOS Code With the congatec embedded BIOS it is even possible for system designers to add their own code to the BIOS POST process. Except for custom specific code, this feature can also be used to support Win XP SLP installation, Window 7 SLIC table, verb tables for HDA codecs, rare graphic modes and Super I/O controllers.
EAPI (Embedded Application Programming Interface) is a programming interface defined by the PICMG that addresses this problem. With this unified API it is now possible to run the same application on all vendor’s COMs that offer EAPI driver support. Contact congatec technical support for more information about EAPI.
You can find more information about Intel Virtualization Technology at: http://developer.intel.com/technology/virtualization/index.htm Note congatec does not offer virtual machine monitor (VMM) software. All VMM software support questions and queries should be directed to the VMM software vendor and not congatec technical support.
USB Port Connections The 6 USB ports are shared between 2 EHCI host controllers. Ports 0-5 are capable of supporting USB 1.1 and 2.0 compliant devices. congatec has implemented a USB 2.0 hub on the conga-QA6 that provides two additional ports for a total of 8. See conga-QA6 USB Routing Diagram on the following page.
There are certain limitations associated with the Intel platform featured on the conga-QA6 as well as the module itself. These limitation are documented in a conga-QA6 Fact Sheet. For information about the conga-QA6 Fact Sheet contact your local congatec representative.
POST thereby allowing the operator to choose the boot device to be used. 10.2 Setup Menu and Navigation The congatec BIOS setup screen is composed of the menu bar and two main frames. The menu bar is shown below: Main Advanced...
Displays the hardware revision of the board. Serial Number no option Displays the serial number of the board. BC Firmware Rev. no option Displays the revision of the congatec board controller. Boot Counter no option Displays the number of boot-ups. (max. 16777215). MAC Address no option Displays the MAC address of the board.
640x480 1x18 (013h) Auto detection is performed by reading an EDID data set via the video I²C bus. The number in brackets specifies the congatec internal number of the respective panel data set. WVGA 800x480 1x24 (01Bh) SVGA 800x600 1x18 (01Ah) Note: Customized EDID™...
100°C Note In ACPI mode it is not possible for a “Watchdog ACPI Event” handler to directly restart or shutdown the OS. For this reason the congatec BIOS will do one of the following: For Shutdown: An over temperature notification is executed. This causes the OS to shut down in an orderly fashion.
Additional BIOS Features The conga-QA6 uses a congatec/AMI AptioEFI that is stored in an onboard SPI Flash chip and can be updated using the congatec System Utility, which is available in a DOS based command line, Win32 command line, Win32 GUI, and Linux version.
Industry Specifications The list below provides links to industry specifications that apply to congatec AG modules. Table 38 Industry Specifications Specification Link Qseven ® Specification http://www.qseven-standard.org/ Qseven Design Guide http://www.qseven-standard.org/ ® Low Pin Count Interface Specification, Revision 1.0 (LPC) http://developer.intel.com/design/chipsets/industry/lpc.htm Universal Serial Bus (USB) Specification, Revision 2.0...
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