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FabiaTech Corporation IPC Solution Website: http://www.fabiatech.com Email: support@fabiatech.com Small Cube System Fanless Series FX5408 User’s Manual JAN 2019 Version: 1.3 Part Number: FX5408...
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FabiaTech Corporation Chapter 1 Introducing the FX5408 System Overview The FX5408 is an embedded system with AMD® G-Serial T40E Processor low-power CPU module inside. This user’s manual provides information on the physical features, installation, and BIOS setup of the FX5408.
FabiaTech Corporation Series Comparison Table Model FX5408 System Processor AMD® G-Serial T40E 1.0 GHZ Memory DDR3L-1066 204 Pin-DIMM*2 4GB / 8GB (Max.) Audio Line-In,MIC-In and Ear-Phone Display VGA (DB-15)/ DP Multi I/O Two RS232 and Two RS232/RS422/RS485 USB 2.0 RJ45 LAN port...
FabiaTech Corporation Layout Front Panel POWER BUTTON DISPLAY MIC LINE IN CFAST HDD RESET EAR-PHONE CFAST Rear Panel DIGITAL IO COM4 COM2 DC IN D I/O DC12~24V 12~24V 10101 ANTENNA COM3 COM1 LAN2 LAN1 ANTENNA...
FabiaTech Corporation Specifications Processor Board – AMD® G-Serial T40E 1.0 GHZ (512KB L2 Cache For Per Core) Dual Core Low Power Processor with 4GB DDR3L/1066 RAM I/O Outlets – Two 10/100/1000 base-TX Ethernet LAN port with RJ45 VGA connector with DB15...
FabiaTech Corporation Packing List Upon receiving the package, verify the following things. Should any of the mentioned happens, contact us for immediate service. • Unpack and inspect the FX5408 package for possible damage that may occur during the delivery process.
FabiaTech Corporation Chapter 2 Hardware Installation This chapter introduces the system connectors & jumper settings, and guides you to apply them for field application. Before Installation Before you install the system, make sure you follow the following descriptions. 1. Before removing the cover, shut down the operation System and disconnect power cord and (or) unplug DC-In cable.
FabiaTech Corporation To install hardware- remove the bottom Cover If you are installing following hardware items, you can remove the bottom cover. The following figure will guide you how to install SATA 2.5" HDD, CFAST Compact Flash modules, mini PCIe WLAN or GPRS module, DDR3L RAM module to the FX5408 and how to install the FX5408 fixers.
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FabiaTech Corporation c. Installing Hard Disk Fasten screws up the Hard disk device to HDD metal frame and connect the SATA HDD cable and power cable. See following figure. c1. Fasten screw the SATA HDD M 3*P0.5 c2. Installing SATA Cable...
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FabiaTech Corporation d. Installing PCIe Mini Card or m-SATA Module FX5408 supports PCIe mini card socket; you may extend additional PCIe mini card module and SIM card or m-SATA module to system. Connect to the antenna cable from rear side antenna holes to GPRS or Wireless LAN module and install the SIM card for GPRS.
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FabiaTech Corporation e. Installing Memory: So-DIMM Socket for DDR3L RAM Modules If you may extend additional memory to system, see as following figure. The 204 pin So-DIMM socket supports 2GB to 8GB of DDR3L RAM modules. Installing memory module to So-DIMM socket of down side, when only one memory module. We recommend that installing dual channel RAM module made by the same part number and manufacturer.
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FabiaTech Corporation f. Installing the universal fixers Please refer to the down side figure for installing the FX5408 with universal fixers. f1. Standard Wall Mounting (See Dimension) M3*P0.5 f2. FX5407k2– Wall Mounting (See Dimension) M3*P0.5 f3. FX5403K1 – 1U Rack Mount Kit...
FabiaTech Corporation LED indicators The Power button with LED and HDD LED has two distinctive statuses: Off for inactive and blinking light for activity operation. POWER BUTTON DISPLAY MIC LINE IN CFAST HDD RESET EAR-PHONE CFAST I/O Peripheral Connectors View from the rear and front side, if you are connecting the monitor, LAN, COM, Audio, GPIO, and USB to the FX5408.
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FabiaTech Corporation Connecting the Display port Display Port Connecting the COM ports The DB9-COM1 and COM2 are designed for multiple proposes. Its can select RS232/RS422/RS485 by BIOS CMOS setting. The following tables show the signal connections of these connectors. DB-9...
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FabiaTech Corporation Connecting the USB Ports The system supports a three port USB connector. Any USB device can be attached to USB ports as plug-and-play function is supported. The front side port USB #1/2 and rear side USB # 3 ~ USB#6 support USB 2.0.
FabiaTech Corporation Connecting the DC Power and Power Button Power is supplied through an external power DC In. See following figure and a side pictures. 1. DC Power Connector: Use external 2-pin apartable terminal block. DC12~24V DC +12V~+24V, 55VA minimum 2.
FabiaTech Corporation Jumper Setting JP1: Clear CMOS Setting You can use JP1 to clear CMOS data. The CMOS stores information like system date, time, boot up device, password, IRQ… which are set up with the BIOS. To clear the CMOS, set JP1 to 2-3 closed and wait 3~5 sec then return to open before system powers off.
FabiaTech Corporation Chapter 3 BIOS Setup This chapter describes the BIOS setup. Overview BIOS are a program located on a Flash memory chip on a circuit board. It is used to initialize and set up the I/O peripherals and interface cards of the system, which includes time, date, hard disk drive, the ISA bus and connected devices such as the video display, diskette drive, and the keyboard.
FabiaTech Corporation BIOS Functions On the menu, you can perform the following functions 1. Main 2. Advanced ACPI Settings CPU Configuration IDE Configuration USB Configuration SMART Settings ITE8786 Super IO Configuration ITE8786 H/W Monitor WAKE Configuration 3. Chipset North Bridge South Bridge 4.
FabiaTech Corporation Keyboard Convention On the BIOS, the following keys can be used to operate and manage the menu: Function [↑][↓] The Up and Down keys allow you to select item. [←][→] The Left and Right keys allow you to select screen.
FabiaTech Corporation Main Setup This section describes BIOS version information and basic system hardware configuration. If the CPU board is already installed in a working system, you will not need to select this option anymore. System Date & Time Setup Highlight the <Date>...
FabiaTech Corporation Advanced Setup Select the Advanced tab from the setup screen to enter the Advanced BIOS Setup screen. You can select any of the items in the left frame of the screen, such as USB Configuration, to go to the sub menu for that item. You can display an Advanced BIOS Setup option by highlighting it using the <Arrow>...
FabiaTech Corporation ACPI settings This filed specifies allow you set this value to utilize the ACPI (Advanced Configuration and Power Interface) specification. Enabled ACPI Auto Configuration This item allows users to enable or disable BIOS ACPI Auto Configuration. Available Options: Disabled, Enabled...
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FabiaTech Corporation ACPI Sleep State This item allows users to select the highest ACPI sleep state the system will enter when the SUSPEND button is pressed. Available Options: Suspend Disabled, and S1 Only (CPU Stop Clock) Default setting: S1 Only (CPU Stop Clock) Lock Legacy Resources This item allows users to enable or disable Lock of Legacy Resources.
FabiaTech Corporation CPU Configuration The Item Display CPU Information, like CPU speed and L1/L2 cache and support function, you can use this screen to select options for the CPU information. Use the up and down <Arrow> keys to select an item. Use the <Plus> and <Minus> keys to change the value of the selected option.
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FabiaTech Corporation PPC Adjustment This field provides to adjust _PPC objects. Available Options: PSTATE0, and PSTATE2 Default setting: PSTATE0 NX Mode This field allows the users to enable or disable the No-executed page Protection functions. Available Options: Disabled, and Enabled...
FabiaTech Corporation IDE Configuration You can use this screen to select options for the SB SATA Configuration.
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FabiaTech Corporation SB SATA Configuration OnChip SATA Channel This item allows users to enable or disable SATA Controller. Available Options: Disabled, and Enabled Default setting: Enabled OnChip SATA Type Select a configuration for SATA controller. Install Windows XP in AHCI mode need to use the F6 Method pre-installed AHCI driver, if you select Legacy IDE mode, you do not need to pre-install.
FabiaTech Corporation USB Configuration You can use this screen to select options for the USB Configuration. Legacy USB Support Legacy USB Support refers to the USB mouse and USB keyboard support. Normally if this option is not enabled; any attached USB mouse or USB keyboard will not become available until a USB compatible operating system is fully booted with all USB drivers loaded.
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FabiaTech Corporation USB Mass Storage Driver Support Mass storage device emulation type. If the emulation FDD, recommended formatted as FAT32 format. Available Options: Disabled, and Enabled Default setting: Enabled USB transfer time-out The time-out value for control, bulk, and interrupt transfers.
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FabiaTech Corporation Device power-up delay > Select “Manual“ Device Power-Up delay in second Delay range is 1...40 seconds, in one second increments Available Options: 1, 5, 10, 20, 30, and 40 Sec Default setting: 5 Sec Generic Storage Device 1.01 Mass storage device emulation type.
FabiaTech Corporation IT8786 Super IO Configuration This section describes the function of Super I/O settings. Serial Port 0/ Port 1 Configuration These fields select the I/O port address for Serial port 0 and port 1.
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FabiaTech Corporation Serial Port 0/1 This item allows users to select the enable or disable Serial port. Available Options: Enabled, and Disabled. Default setting: Enabled Device Settings Serial Port0: IO=3F8; IRQ=IRQ4; Serial Port1: IO=2F8; IRQ=IRQ3 Transfer Mode Setting This item allows users can select RS-232, RS-422 and RS-485 of select COM1/COM2.
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FabiaTech Corporation Serial Port 2/3 Configuration Serial Port 2/3 This item allows users to select the enable or disable Serial port. Available Options: Enabled, and Disabled. Default setting: Enabled Device Settings Serial Port2: IO=3E8; IRQ=IRQ11; Serial Port3: IO=2E8; IRQ=IRQ10;...
FabiaTech Corporation Hardware Health Configuration On the Hardware Monitor Setup screen, you can monitor the system temperature1, System voltage, and VBAT voltage…...
FabiaTech Corporation Wake Configuration Onboard PCIE LAN PXE ROM This field specifies the PXE boot ROM of the onboard LAN chip. Available Options: Disabled, and Enabled Default setting: Disabled Wake ON Lan This item is can select Enabled to integrated LAN to wake up the system.
FabiaTech Corporation Realtek PCIe GBE Family Controller (MAC) On the LAN Information screen, you can see the LAN Chipset information, when setting the Launch PXE OpROM Policy to UEFI Only of CSM Boot.
FabiaTech Corporation North Bridge You can use this screen to select options for the Host Bridge Configuration. Use the up and down <Arrow> keys to select an item. Use the <Plus> and <Minus> keys to change the value of the selected option.
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FabiaTech Corporation Memory Configuration Integrated Graphics This field specifies allows you to select the Video Device which will be activated during POST. Available Options: Auto, Disabled, and Force. Default setting: Auto UMA Frame buffer Size When Integrated Graphics selected to “Focus”, User can select graphics memory size used by the internal graphics device.
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FabiaTech Corporation Socket 0 Information On the Socket 0 Information screen, you can see the system memory information.
FabiaTech Corporation South Bridge You can use this screen to select options for the South Bridge Configuration. South Bridge is a chipset on the motherboard that controls the USB, and audio function. Restore On AC Power Lose This field specifies the option controls how the PC will behave once power is restored following a power outage (or other unexpected or ungraceful shutdown).
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FabiaTech Corporation USB Configuration OHCI HC (Bus 0 Dev 18/19/22/20 FN 0/5) The USB OHCI HOST Control each of the USB ports (0~5). Enable: Enable USB 0/1, 2/3, 4/5 port; Disable: Use USB port 0/1, 2/3, 4/5 settings Available Options: Disabled, and Enabled...
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FabiaTech Corporation Azalia HD Audio Audio Controller This item allows users to enable or disable Azalia Controller. Available Options: Auto, Disabled, and Enabled Default setting: Enabled...
FabiaTech Corporation Boot Select the Boot tab from the setup screen to enter the Boot BIOS Setup screen. You can select any of the items in the left frame of the screen, such as Boot Device Priority, to go to the sub menu for that item. You can display a Boot BIOS Setup option by highlighting it using the <Arrow>...
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FabiaTech Corporation Quiet Boot This item allows users to enable or disable Quiet boot option. If Enable, an OEM LOGO is shown instead of POST messages. Available Options: Disabled, and Enabled Default setting: Disabled Fast Boot This field is used to activate the fast boot function of the system. When set to Enabled, boot with initialization of a minimal set of devices required to launch active boot option.
FabiaTech Corporation Note: When you select a boot Option category from the boot menu, a list of devices in that category appears. For example, if the system has hard disk drives and USB storage connected, then the list will show all hard disk drives attached.
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FabiaTech Corporation Launch PXE OpROM Policy This option Controls the execution of UEFI and Legacy PXE OpROM. Available Options: Do not Launch, Legacy only, UEFI only, Leach First and UEFI First. Default setting: Do not Launch Launch Storage OpROM Policy This option Controls the execution of UEFI and Legacy Storage OpROM.
FabiaTech Corporation Security Security Setup provides both Administrator and User password. If you use both passwords, the Administrator password must be set first. The system can be configured so that all users must enter a password every time the system boots or when Setup is executed, using either the Administrator password or User password.
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FabiaTech Corporation Clear Old Password Select Administrator/user password item, press <Enter> and type current password, at the next dialog press <Enter> to Clear Old Password.
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FabiaTech Corporation HDD Security Configuration Customizable HDD Password Secure Boot settings, when HDD/SSD device is support.
FabiaTech Corporation Save & Exit Save Changes and Exit When you have completed the system configuration changes, select this option to save the changes and Exit, so the new system configuration parameters can take effect. Discard Changes and Exit Select this option to quit without making any modifications to the system configuration.
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FabiaTech Corporation Discard Changes and Reset Select this option to reboot the system without saving the changes done in the setup configuration. Save Changes When you have completed the system configuration changes, select this option to save your system configuration and continue. For some of the options it required to reset the system to take effect.
FabiaTech Corporation Chapter 4 Software Installation The enclosed CD diskette includes FX5408 VGA, System, Audio, and LAN driver. To install and configure you FX5408 system, you need to perform the following steps. Install AMD Catalyst ™ Drivers WIN XP/7 32/64 Driver To install the AMD T40E driver, insert the DVD ROM into the USB DVD ROM device, and enter DRIVER>VGA>AMD_T40E>WINXP, or >WIN7.
FabiaTech Corporation Step 9: The AMD - Catalyst Install Manager will analyze the system, and install the required files. Step10: The AMD - Catalyst Install Manager will confirm when the installation is complete. Click Finish. Step11: When prompted, Click Yes to restart the system and complete the installation process.
FabiaTech Corporation BIOS Flash Utility In the <UTILITY> directory, there is the AFU301.EXE file. Step 1: Use the AFU301.EXE xxxxxVxx.rom program to update the BIOS setting. Step 2: And then refer to the chapter “BIOS Setup”, as the steps to modify BIOS.
FabiaTech Corporation Watchdog Timer This section describes how to use the Watchdog Timer, including disabled, enabled, and trigger functions. The FX5408 is equipped with a programmable time-out period watchdog timer. You can use your own program to Enabled the watchdog timer. Once you have enabled the watchdog timer, the program should trigger the I/O every time before the timer times out.
FabiaTech Corporation Watchdog Timer Setting The watchdog timer is a circuit that may be used from your program software to detect system crashes or hang-ups. The watchdog timer is automatically disabled after reset. Once you have enabled the watchdog timer, your program must trigger the watchdog timer every time before it times out.
FabiaTech Corporation Watchdog Timer Enabled To enable the watchdog timer, you have to output a byte of timer factor to the watchdog register whose address is 2eh and data port is 2fH. The following is a Demo program, which demonstrates how to enable the watchdog timer and set the time-out period at 28 seconds.
FabiaTech Corporation Digital I/O (GPIO) programming The following is Demo program, which demonstrates how to read and write the data of GPIO. ;---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- ; Configuration the Digital IO port is A06h-(GPO) Bit0, Bit1/ (GPI) Bit 4, Bit 5, ; A06h-Bit0/Bit1 (GPO-0 / GPO-1, Write data) When set to a “1”, respective GPO port is programmed as ‘High’.
FabiaTech Corporation Chapter 5 Technical Reference This section outlines the errors that may occur when you operate the system, and also gives you the suggestions on solving the problems. Topic include: Technical Reference Dimension Technical Reference Physical and Environmental Temperature: Operating -20°C ~ 60°C Relative humidity 5 % to 95 % non-condensing Surface Temperature of Chassis:...
FabiaTech Corporation Serial Ports The ACEs (Asynchronous Communication Elements ACE1 to ACE2) are used to convert parallel data to a serial format on the transmit side and convert serial data to parallel on the receiver side. The serial format, in order of transmission and reception, is a start bit, followed by five to eight data bits, a parity bit (if programmed) and one, one and half (five-bit format only) or two stop bits.
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FabiaTech Corporation Bit 1: Enable Transmitter Holding Empty Interrupt (ETBEI) Bit 2: Enable Receiver Line Status Interrupt (ELSI) Bit 3: Enable MODEM Status Interrupt (EDSSI) Bit 4: Must be 0 Bit 5: Must be 0 Bit 6: Must be 0...
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FabiaTech Corporation Bit 5: Stick Parity Bit 6: Set Break Bit 7: Divisor Latch Access Bit (DLAB) MODEM Control Register (MCR) Bit 0: Data Terminal Ready (DTR) Bit 1: Request to Send (RTS) Bit 2: Out 1 (OUT 1) Bit 3: Out 2 (OUT 2)
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FabiaTech Corporation Bit 4: Clear to Send (CTS) Bit 5: Data Set Ready (DSR) Bit 6: Ring Indicator (RI) Bit 7: Received Line Signal Detect (RSLD) Divisor Latch (LS, MS) Bit 0: Bit 0 Bit 8 Bit 1: Bit 1...
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