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ROBO‐8122VG2R

Non‐Standard PICMG 1.3 Single Host Board

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Page 3: Table Of Contents
5.3 Installing the Single Board Computer ....................................33 5.3.1Chipset Component Driver ..................................... 33 5.3.2 Intel® HD Graphics ....................................... 34 5.3.3 Intel LAN I210AT/I217LM Gigabit Ethernet Controller ............................34 6 BIOS Setup Items ............................................. 35 Copyright © Portwell 2017 ROBO-8122VG2R User's Guide...
Page 4 6.2.5 Save & Exit ..........................................76 7 Troubleshooting ............................................78 7.1 Hardware Quick Installation ......................................78 7.2 BIOS Setting ............................................ 81 7.3 FAQ ..............................................82 8 Portwell Software Service......................................... 87 9 Industry Specifications ..........................................88 Copyright © Portwell 2017 ROBO-8122VG2R User's Guide...
Page 5 Portwell provides no warranty with regard to this user’s guide or any other information contained herein and hereby expressly disclaims any implied warranties of merchantability or fitness for any particular purpose with regard to any of the foregoing. Portwell assumes no liability for any damages incurred directly or indirectly from any technical or typographical errors or omissions contained herein or for discrepancies between the product and the user’s guide.
Page 6 Warranty”). Portwell may in its sole discretion modify its Limited Warranty at any time and from time to time. Beginning on the date of shipment to its direct customer and continuing for the published warranty period, Portwell represents that the products are new and warrants that each product failing to function properly under normal use, due to a defect in materials or workmanship or due to non conformance to the agreed upon specifications, will be repaired or exchanged, at Portwell’s option and expense.
Page 7 Caution: Do not just hold any single side of the SBC; hold evenly on both sides! Heavy processor cooler may bend the SBC when SBC being held just on one side. The bending may cause soldering or components damaged. Copyright © Portwell 2017 ROBO-8122VG2R User's Guide...
Page 8 Caution: Suggest your S.I or vendor to use a metal bracket to hold/fix the desktop or server grade SBC to avoid the vibration damage during transportation. Heavy processor cooler may bend the SBC when systems are during transportation without any holder. Example: 4U chassis : Use L type mental or plastic or rubber bracket to hold SBC. Copyright © Portwell 2017 ROBO-8122VG2R User's Guide...
Page 10: Introduction
ROBO-8122VG2R, a non-standard PICMG 1.3 Single Host Board (SHB) with the Intel Server grade Xeon E5-2600Lv3 and v4 series processors. Portwell's ROBO-8122VG2R implements flexible PCI Express Gen 3 expansion by one PCI Express x16 or two PCI Express x 8 or one PCI Express x8 and two PCI Express x4 from each processor, which is ideal for a range of applications, such as Data Center, Military.
Page 11: Specifications
◆ Supports dual 10/100/1000 Mbps Ethernet port (s) via PCI Express x1 interface by Intel WGI217LM and WGI210AT controller Ethernet ◆ One RJ45 connector on bracket ◆ The other LAN port route to gold finger section C (w/o LAN LED support) High Drive GPIO ◆ N/A Copyright © Portwell 2017 ROBO-8122VG2R User's Guide...
Page 12: Supported Operating Systems
◆ Power supply voltage: ATX ◆ Board size: 338.5mm x 126.39mm, 13.33" (L) x 4.98" (W) 2.1 Supported Operating Systems The ROBO-8122VG2R supports the following operating systems. Windows Server support Linux support Copyright © Portwell 2017 ROBO-8122VG2R User's Guide...
Page 15: Power Consumption
ROBO-8122VG2R 2.3 Power Consumption CPU Type Intel® Xeon® CPU E5-2648L v3 @ 1.80GHz *2 SBC BIOS Portwell, Inc. ROBO-8122VG2AR TEST BIOS (61208T00) Memory VENTURA DDR4 RDIMM 2133/32GB *8 VGA Card Onboard ASPEED Graphics Family(WDDM) VGA Driver ASPEED Graphics Family(WDDM) ,Version:9.0.10.101 LAN Card Onboard Intel®...
Page 16: Environmental Specifications
4.83V/ 960 mA USB 2.0 Loading Test 4.96V/ 500 mA 2.4 Environmental Specifications Storage Temperature : -20~80°C Operation Temperature : 0~50°C (up to 75W CPU limitation per socket) Storage Humidity : 5~90% Operation Humidity: 10~90% Copyright © Portwell 2017 ROBO-8122VG2R User's Guide...
Page 18: Hardware Configuration
ROBO-8122VG2R 3 Hardware Configuration 3.1 Jumpers and Connectors This chapter indicates jumpers’, headers’ and connectors’ locations. Users may find useful information related to hardware settings in this chapter. Copyright © Portwell 2017 ROBO-8122VG2R User's Guide...
Page 19: Jumpers Settings
3.2 Jumpers Settings For users to customize ROBO-8122VG2R’s features. In the following sections, Short means covering a jumper cap over jumper pins; Open or N/C (Not Connected) means removing a jumper cap from jumper pins. Users can refer to Figure 1 for the Jumper allocations.
Page 20 ROBO-8122VG2R JP1: BUZZER PIN No. Signal Description BUZZER JP2: SMBUS PIN No. Signal Description SMBus_CLK SMBus_DAT JP3: ME Disable PIN No. Signal Description Not Override ★ Open 1-2 shorts SECURITY Override for ME Copyright © Portwell 2017 ROBO-8122VG2R User's Guide...
Page 22: Connector Settings
ATX 4Pin 12V Power Connector VGA Connector J31/J34 CPU Fan Power Control J32/J33 USB 3.0 LAN I217 Power & SATA & LAN Link LED Connector J6/J21 PWM IC FW Update U98/U96/U94/U95/ DDR4 Long DIMM Connector U50/U51/U4/U5 Copyright © Portwell 2017 ROBO-8122VG2R User's Guide...
Page 23 ROBO-8122VG2R J14: System Fan Power Control PIN No. Signal Description Ground FAN PWM_CONTROL Sense output J26: ATX 4Pin 12V Power Connector PIN No. Signal Description +12V +12V Copyright © Portwell 2017 ROBO-8122VG2R User's Guide...
Page 24 PIN No. Signal Description PIN No. Signal Description Green Blue RGND GGND BGND KEY(+5V) SGND H Sync V Sync J31/J34:CPU Fan Power Control PIN No. Signal Description Ground +12V Sense output FAN PWM_CONTROL Copyright © Portwell 2017 ROBO-8122VG2R User's Guide...
Page 25 ROBO-8122VG2R J36: Power & SATA & LAN Link [I210AT] LED connector PIN No. Signal Description Power LED 5VDUAL LAN Act LED 3VSB SATA LED VCC3 Copyright © Portwell 2017 ROBO-8122VG2R User's Guide...
Page 26: Signal Descriptions
ROBO-8122VG2R 4 Signal Descriptions 4.1 Watch Dog Signal WDT function needs to test with Portwell PET tool. PET_WDT_Available Declaration It can verify the watch dog timer is available. Prototype int PET_WDT_Available (); Parameter None. Return Value If the return value (0) is success, otherwise return an error code.
Page 27 If the return value (0) is success, otherwise return an error code. Sample Code 01 unsigned char minimum, maximum; 02 PET_WDT_GetRange (SECOND_MODE, &minimum, &maximum); 03 printf ("The WDT seconde mode range: %d ~ %d (sec)\n", minimum, maximum); Copyright © Portwell 2017 ROBO-8122VG2R User's Guide...
Page 28 [In] it specifies a value in second or minute for the watch dog timer out. Return Value If the return value (0) is success, otherwise return an error code. Sample Code PET_WDT_SetConfig (SECOND_MODE, 10); // 10 second Copyright © Portwell 2017 ROBO-8122VG2R User's Guide...
Page 29 If the return value (0) is success, otherwise return an error code. Sample Code 01 int wdt_type; 02 unsigned char timeout; 03 int test = PET_WDT_GetConfig ( &wdt_type , &timeout); 04 if ( test == 0) 05 printf ("WDT type:%d, timeout:%d\n", wdt_type, wdt_timeout); Copyright © Portwell 2017 ROBO-8122VG2R User's Guide...
Page 30 01 unsigned char timeout = 10; 02 int test = PET_WDT_SetConfig (SECOND_MODE, timeout); 03 if ( test == 0) 04 printf (“PET_WDT_SetConfig is success\n”); 05 test = PET_WDT_Trigger(); 06 if ( test == 0) 07 printf("PET_WDT_Trigger is success”); Copyright © Portwell 2017 ROBO-8122VG2R User's Guide...
Page 31 If the return value (0) is success, otherwise return an error code. Sample Code 01 unsigned char timeout = 10; 02 PET_WDT_SetConfig (SECOND_MODE, timeout); 03 PET_WDT_Trigger (); 04 int test = PET_WDT_Disable (); 05 if ( test == 0) 06 printf("PET_WDT_Disable is success”); Copyright © Portwell 2017 ROBO-8122VG2R User's Guide...
Page 32: System Resources
Intel® C612 Chipset (Intel® DH82029PCH PCH) 5.2 Main Memory ROBO-8122VG2R provides 8 x 288-pin Long-DIMM sockets which supports DDR4 Register memory. The maximum memory can be up to 256GB. Memory clock and related settings can be detected by BIOS via SPD interface.
Page 33: Installing The Single Board Computer
5.3.1Chipset Component Driver ROBO-8122VG2R is based on Intel® C612 chipset and server grade processors including Xeon E5-2600Lv3 and v4 series . It’s a new chipset that some old operating systems might not be able to recognize. To overcome this compatibility issue, for Windows Operating Systems such as Windows Server, please install its INF before any of other Drivers are installed.
Page 34: Intel® Hd Graphics
ROBO-8122VG2R 5.3.2 Intel® HD Graphics There is no integrated graphic engine by Intel processors. ROBO-8122VG2R provides VGA output by ASPEED AST1400 GPU. Drivers Support Please find the Graphic driver in the ROBO-8122VG2R CD-title. The driver supports Windows Server 2012. 5.3.3 Intel LAN I210AT/I217LM Gigabit Ethernet Controller...
Page 35: Bios Setup Items
The following section describes the BIOS setup program. The BIOS setup program can be used to view and change the BIOS settings for the module. Only experienced users should change the default BIOS settings. Copyright © Portwell 2017 ROBO-8122VG2R User's Guide...
Page 36: Bios Setup
The BIOS setup program provides a General Help screen. The menu can be easily called up from any menu by pressing <F1>. The Help screen lists all the possible keys to use and the selections for the highlighted item. Press <Esc> to exit the Help Screen. Copyright © Portwell 2017 ROBO-8122VG2R User's Guide...
Page 38 The date format is <Day>, <Month> <Date> <Year>. Use [＋] or [－] to configure system Date. System Date The time format is <Hour> <Minute> <Second>. Use [＋] or [－] to configure system Time. System Time Copyright © Portwell 2017 ROBO-8122VG2R User's Guide...
Page 41 Enable Intel TXT Support ★ Disable, Enable when TXT is enabled. Enables the Vanderpool Technology, takes effect after reboot. ★ All, 1, 2, 3 Enable SMX Enables Safer Mode Extensions. ★ Disable, Enable Copyright © Portwell 2017 ROBO-8122VG2R User's Guide...
Page 43 ROBO-8122VG2R Feature Description Options ★ Auto, 1333, 1600,1867, Memory Frequency Maximum Memory Frequency Selections in Mhz. Do not select Reserved 2133, 2400 Copyright © Portwell 2017 ROBO-8122VG2R User's Guide...
Page 44 Memory Topology (Show only) Displays memory topology with Dimm population information. Each sockets has 2 Nodes/iMC’s (numbered from 0-7), each node supports upto 2 channels(0&1) and 3 DIMM’s per channel (0,1&2) on EP platforms. Copyright © Portwell 2017 ROBO-8122VG2R User's Guide...
Page 46 PCI Express Root Port 3 Control the PCI Express Root Port. ★ Enabled, Disabled i210 Legacy PXE Rom Launch Legacy PXE Rom. [Disable] Not launch Rom, [Enable] Force launch Rom. ★ Disable, Enable Copyright © Portwell 2017 ROBO-8122VG2R User's Guide...
Page 48 ROBO-8122VG2R Feature Description Options ★ Offboard Device, Onboard Active Video Select active Video type Device ★ Legacy, Do not launch, Launch Video OPROM Controls the execution of UEFI and Legacy Video OpROM UEFI Copyright © Portwell 2017 ROBO-8122VG2R User's Guide...
Page 50 ★ Disabled, Enabled (Only if System Supports 64 bit PCI Decoding) If system has SR-IOV capable PCIe Devices, this option Enables or Disables Single Root SR-IOV Support ★ Disabled, Enabled IO Virtualization Support. Copyright © Portwell 2017 ROBO-8122VG2R User's Guide...
Page 52 ROBO-8122VG2R Feature Description Options IOU0/1 (IIO PCIe Port 2/Port3) Select PCIe port Bifuration for select slot (s) ★ Auto, x8x8, x16 Copyright © Portwell 2017 ROBO-8122VG2R User's Guide...
Page 54 ★ Auto, Gen 1 (2.5 GT/s), Link Speed Gen 2 (5 GT/s), Gen 3 (8 GT/s) Override Max Link Width Override the max link width that was set by bifurcation ★ Auto, x1, x2, x4, x8, x16 Copyright © Portwell 2017 ROBO-8122VG2R User's Guide...
Page 56 Reserved Memory and Prefetchable Memory (1-20MB) Range for this Root Bridge. ★ 10, 1-1200 Prefetchable Memory Prefetchable Memory Range for this Root Bridge ★ 10, 1-1200 Reserved I/O Reserved I/O (4K/8K/12K/16K/20K) Range for this Root Bridge ★ 0, 0-20 Copyright © Portwell 2017 ROBO-8122VG2R User's Guide...
Page 58 Configures port as External SATA (eSATA) ★ Disabled, Enabled ★ Hard Disk Drive, Solid State SATA Device Type Indentify the SATA port is connected to Solid State Drive or Hard Disk Drive. Drive Copyright © Portwell 2017 ROBO-8122VG2R User's Guide...
Page 60 Maximum time the device will take before it properly reports itself to the Host Controller. Devices power-up delay ‘Auto uses default value: for a Root port it is 100 ms, for a Hub port the delay is taken from ★ Auto, Manual Hub descriptor. Copyright © Portwell 2017 ROBO-8122VG2R User's Guide...
Page 62 Wake up day ★ 0, 0-31 like the system to wake up Wake up Time(HH: mm: ss) Use [Enter], [TAB] to select field, HH: 0-23, mm: 0-59, ss: 0-59 HH: 0-23, mm: 0-59, ss: 0-59 Copyright © Portwell 2017 ROBO-8122VG2R User's Guide...
Page 64 Watch Dog Timer Enable/Disable Watch Dog Timer ★ Disabled, Enabled (Enabled) Timer Unit Select Timer count unit of WDT ★ Second, Minute Timer value Set WDT Timer value ★ 2, 1-255 (Minute), 10-255 (Second) Copyright © Portwell 2017 ROBO-8122VG2R User's Guide...
Page 66 Fan will off when temperature lower than this limit ★ 30, 0-127 Smart System Fan Start Fan will work when temperature higher than this limit ★ 40, 0-127 System Fan Full Speed Fan Full Speed Temperature ★ 60, 0-127 Copyright © Portwell 2017 ROBO-8122VG2R User's Guide...
Page 70 ‘stop’ signal can be sent to stop the data flow. Once Flow Control ★ None, Hardware RTS/CTS the buffers are empty, a ‘start’ signal can be sent to re-start the flow. Hardware flow control uses two wires to send start/stop signals. Copyright © Portwell 2017 ROBO-8122VG2R User's Guide...
Page 71 The settings specify if BootLoader is selected then Legacy console redirection is Redirection After BIOS POST disabled before booting to legacy OS. Default value is Always Enable with means ★ Always Enable, BootLoader Legacy console Redirection is enabled for Legacy OS. Copyright © Portwell 2017 ROBO-8122VG2R User's Guide...
Page 72: Security
ROBO-8122VG2R 6.2.3 Security This section lets you set security passwords to control access to the system at boot time and/or when entering the BIOS setup program. Copyright © Portwell 2017 ROBO-8122VG2R User's Guide...
Page 73 [Setup] check password when enter setup screen. [Power on] check password on Password Check Mode ★ Setup, Power on every time system power on. Administrator Password Set Administrator Password ★ No default setting Copyright © Portwell 2017 ROBO-8122VG2R User's Guide...
Page 75 ★ Legacy, Do not launch, UEFI Full screen Logo Enables or disables Quiet Boot option and Full screen Logo. ★ Disabled, Enabled Boot Option #1 Set the system boot order ★ UEFI: Built-in EFI Shell, Disabled Copyright © Portwell 2017 ROBO-8122VG2R User's Guide...
Page 77 Reset system setup without saving any changes. Restore Defaults Restore/Load Default values for all the setup options. UEFI: Built-in EFI Shell Reset the system after saving the changes. (Boot option filter: UEFI only) Copyright © Portwell 2017 ROBO-8122VG2R User's Guide...
Page 78: Troubleshooting
Unlike other Single board computer, ROBO-8122VG2AR supports ATX only. Therefore, there is no other setting that really needs to be set up. However, there are only two connectors that must be connected—J26 ATX 4 Pin Connector (4 pins CPU+12V main power connector) & 24 pins ATX Power Connector (On PICMG Backplane). Copyright © Portwell 2017 ROBO-8122VG2R User's Guide...
Page 79 Master and Slave, which can reduce mistake of hardware installation. All you need to operate IDE, AHCI, RAID (0/1/5/10) application for system, please follow up setting guide in BIOS setup utility. Copyright © Portwell 2017 ROBO-8122VG2R User's Guide...
Page 80 ROBO-8122VG2AR can support four SATA interface (SATAIII, 6.0Gb/s) on board. It has two J12/J24 SATA ports on board; two SATA ports on PICMG backplane. The SATA interface shall support both 1.5/3.0Gb & 6.0Gb operation per the SATA specification. Copyright © Portwell 2017 ROBO-8122VG2R User's Guide...
Page 81: Bios Setting
BIOS setup. This will force your BIOS setting back to the initial factory configurations. It is recommended to do this so you can be sure the system is running with the BIOS setting that Portwell has highly endorsed. As a matter of fact, users can load the default BIOS setting at any time when system appears to be unstable in boot up sequence.
Page 82: Faq
Answer: No! Use the standard PICMG 1.3 backplane will let the ROBO-8122VG2AR to damage. The gold finger circuit design of the ROBO-8122VG2AR is different than other standard PICMG 1.3 SBC. Please select those models backplane as below list to use. (Example: PBPE-04P) Copyright © Portwell 2017 ROBO-8122VG2R User's Guide...
Page 84 Answer: You can switch off your power supply then find the J3 on the ROBO-8122VG2AR SBC to set it from 1-2 short to 2-3 short and wait 5 seconds to clean your password then set it back to 1-2 short to switch on your power supply. Copyright © Portwell 2017 ROBO-8122VG2R User's Guide...
Page 85 5. Unzip file to bootable USB flash drive which can boot to dos mode. Then execute the “update.bat” or “update.efi ”. It will start to update BIOS. NOTE: Once you use “update.efi” to update BIOS, it must be get into the SHELL MODE to update BIOS Copyright © Portwell 2017 ROBO-8122VG2R User's Guide...
Page 86 If you have other additional technical information or request which is not covered in this manual, please fill in the technical request form as below hyperlink. http://www.portwell.com.tw/support/problem_report.php We will do our best to provide a suggestion or solution for you. Thanks. Copyright © Portwell 2017 ROBO-8122VG2R User's Guide...
Page 87: Portwell Software Service
Portwell. Portwell BIOS web Tool (PBT) The Portwell BIOS web Tool (PBT) is a brand new on-line utility which innovated by Portwell. PBT now is available for Portwell's premiere customers who are able to add customized BIOS logo change BIOS default settings on American Megatrends (AMI) BIOS.
Page 88: Industry Specifications
ROBO-8122VG2R 9 Industry Specifications The list below provides links to industry specifications that apply to Portwell modules. Low Pin Count Interface Specification, Revision 1.0 (LPC) http://www.intel.com/design/chipsets/industry/lpc.htm Universal Serial Bus (USB) Specification, Revision 2.0 http://www.usb.org/home PCI Specification, Revision 2.3 https://www.pcisig.com/specifications Serial ATA Specification, Revision 3.0 http://www.serialata.org/...

Portwell ROBO-8122VG2R User Manual

1 Introduction

2 Specifications

3 Hardware Configuration

4 Signal Descriptions

5 System Resources

6 BIOS Setup Items

7 Troubleshooting

8 Portwell Software Service

9 Industry Specifications

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Page 3: Table Of Contents

Page 10: Introduction

Page 11: Specifications

Page 12: Supported Operating Systems

Page 13: Mechanical Dimensions

Page 15: Power Consumption

Page 16: Environmental Specifications

Page 18: Hardware Configuration

Page 19: Jumpers Settings

Page 22: Connector Settings

Page 26: Signal Descriptions

Page 32: System Resources

Page 33: Installing The Single Board Computer

Page 34: Intel® Hd Graphics

Page 35: Bios Setup Items

Page 36: Bios Setup

Page 37: Main

Page 39: Configuration

Page 72: Security

Page 74: Boot

Page 76: Save & Exit

Page 78: Troubleshooting

Page 81: Bios Setting

Page 82: Faq

Page 87: Portwell Software Service

Page 88: Industry Specifications

Portwell ROBO-8122VG2R User Manual

1 Introduction

2 Specifications

3 Hardware Configuration

4 Signal Descriptions

5 System Resources

6 BIOS Setup Items

7 Troubleshooting

8 Portwell Software Service

9 Industry Specifications

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