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Management Signal Descriptions” • Updated section 4 "Cooling Solutions" • Added information about congatec MLF file to section 11 "Additional BIOS Features" • Updated sections 11.2 "Updating the BIOS" and 11.3 "Supported Flash Devices" • Deleted section 12 "Industry Specifications"...
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Supply Voltage Standard Power ..........15 6.1.2 Low Voltage Memory (DDR3L) ..........30 2.4.1 Electrical Characteristics ............15 6.1.3 congatec Board Controller (cBC) ..........31 2.4.2 Rise Time ................. 15 6.1.3.1 Board Information ..............31 Power Consumption ..............16 6.1.3.2 General Purpose Input/Output ..........
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Technical Support congatec AG technicians and engineers are committed to providing the best possible technical support for our customers so that our products can be easily used and implemented. We request that you first visit our website at www.congatec.com for the latest documentation, utilities and drivers, which have been made available to assist you.
I²C Bus, multimaster 1x SD/MMC BIOS AMI Aptio V UEFI 2.x firmware; 8 MB serial SPI with congatec Embedded BIOS features (OEM Boot Logo, OEM Default Settings, LCD Control, ® Display Auto Detection, Backlight Control, Flash Update) Power ACPI 5.0 compliant with battery support. Also supports Suspend to RAM (S3).
• Linux (Timesys Fedora 18) Note The conga-TCA3 requires a minimum storage capacity of 16 GB (32-bit) or 20 GB (64-bit) for Windows 7/8/10 installation. congatec will not offer installation support for systems that do not meet the minimum requirement.
Power Consumption The power consumption values were measured with the following setup: • Input voltage +12 V • conga-TCA3 COM • modified congatec carrier board • conga-TCA3 cooling solution • Microsoft Windows 7 (64-bit) Note The CPU was stressed to its maximum workload.
3. Consider the self-discharge of the battery when calculating the lifetime of the CMOS battery. For more information, refer to application note AN9_RTC_Battery_Lifetime.pdf on congatec AG website at www.congatec.com/support/application-notes. 4. We recommend to always have a CMOS battery present when operating the conga-TCA3.
Storage: 5% to 95% Caution 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.
1. We recommend a maximum torque of 0.4 Nm for carrier board mounting screws and 0.5 Nm for module mounting screws. 2. The gap pad material used on congatec heatspreaders may contain silicon oil that can seep out over time depending on the environmental conditions it is subjected to.
The conga-TCA3 offers a 4-bit SD interface for SD/MMC cards on the A–B connector. The SD signals are multiplexed with GPIO signals and controlled by the congatec Board Controller. The SD card controller in the Storage Control Cluster of the SoC supports the SD interface with up to 832 Mb/s data rate, using four parallel data lines.
The conga-TCA3 is equipped with a Texas Instruments Tiva™ TM4E1231H6ZRBI 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 Customization The conga-TCA3 is equipped with congatec Embedded BIOS, which is based on American Megatrends Inc. Aptio UEFI firmware. The congatec Embedded BIOS allows system designers to modify the BIOS. For more information about customizing the congatec Embedded BIOS, refer to the congatec System Utility user’s guide CGUTLm1x.pdf on the congatec website at www.congatec.com or contact technical support.
OEM POST Logo This feature allows system designers to replace the congatec POST logo displayed in the upper left corner of the screen during BIOS POST with their own BIOS POST logo. Use the congatec system utility CGUTIL 1.5.4 or later to replace/add the OEM POST logo.
The architecture of the CGOS API driver provides the ability to write application software that runs unmodified on all congatec CPU modules. All the hardware related code is contained within the congatec embedded BIOS on the module. See section 1.1 of the CGOS API software developers guide, which is available on the congatec website.
Architecture (Intel VT-x) added hardware support in the processor to improve the virtualization performance and robustness. ® RTS Real-Time Hypervisor supports Intel VT and is verified on all current congatec x86 hardware. Note congatec supports RTS Hypervisor. 7.1.2 Thermal Management ACPI is responsible for allowing the operating system to play an important part in the system's thermal management.
Signal Descriptions and Pinout Tables The following section describes the signals found on COM Express™ Type VI connectors used for congatec AG modules. The pinout of the modules complies with COM Express Type 6.0 Rev. 2.1. Table 2 describes the terminology used in this section for the Signal Description tables. The PU/PD column indicates if a COM Express™...
Interrupt used by multifunction PCI Express devices (INTD). I²C Bus There are no onboard resources connected to the I²C bus. Address 16h is reserved for congatec Battery Management solutions. SM Bus System Management (SM) bus signals are connected to the Intel Baytrail SoC and the SM bus is not intended to be used by off-board non- ®...
BIOS setup program. 10.2 Setup Menu and Navigation The congatec BIOS setup screen is composed of the menu bar, left frame and right frame. The menu bar is shown below: Main Advanced...
Serial Number No option Displays the serial number of the board. BC Firmware Revision No option Displays the firmware revision of the congatec board controller. MAC Address No option Displays the MAC address of the onboard Ethernet controller. Boot Counter No option Displays the number of boot-ups (maximum 16777215).
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In ACPI mode, it is not possible for a 'Watchdog ACPI Event' handler to directly restart or shutdown the operating system. For this reason, the congatec BIOS will do one of the following: For Shutdown: An over temperature notification is executed. This causes the operating systemto shut down in an orderly fashion.
LVDS panel. Auto detection is performed by reading an EDID™ data set via the VGA 640x480 1x18 (013h) video I²C bus. The number in brackets specifies the congatec internal number of the respective WVGA 800x480 1x24 (01Bh) panel data set.
Until End Of POST Backlight Delay No Delay Set a delay to adjust the LVDS panel timings. The congatec board controller will add the delay to 100ms Delay the backlight signal coming from the SoC according this setup node. 250ms Delay Note: Try this feature if your panel is flickering.
The USB ports originating from the HSIC hub behave differently from the EHCI USB 2.0 ports. For this reason, it is necessary to set the 'xHCI mode' correctly. See the congatec technical note 'CTN-20140702-001' for more information on the configuration that suits your requirements.
AptioEFI firmware on an onboard flash ROM chip. You can update the firmware with the congatec System Utility. The utility has five versions— UEFI shell, DOS based command line , Win32 command line, Win32 GUI, and Linux version.
We recommend to use only the UEFI shell for critical updates. 11.2.1 Update from External Flash For instructions on how to update the BIOS from external flash, refer to the AN7_External_BIOS_Update.pdf application note on the congatec website at http://www.congatec.com. 11.3...
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