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Introduction 1.1 The Product The EmETXe-a10M3 is a space-conscious CPU board of 125 mm x 95 mm to take up only small footprint in your system. By the architecture of Type 6, the board has two high-performance connectors to promise stable data passing rate.
Before you begin installing your single board, please make sure that the following materials have been shipped: 1 x EmETXe-a10M3 COM Express CPU Module 1 x Quick Installation Guide If any of the above items is damaged or missing, contact your vendor immediately.
Introduction 1.5.1 Optional Accessories Heat sink with Fan, PAD (95x95x51mm) HS-10M3-C1 ® COM Express Type 6 evaluation carrier board with SIO PBE-1705-F1 F71869ED module in ATX form factor Cable kit CBK-03-1705-00 1 x SATA cable 2 x COM Flat cables 1.6 Driver(7.2A) Installation To install the drivers, please visit our website at www.arbor.technology.
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Module Type 1 and 10 support single connector with two rows (220 pins). Module Type 2, 3, 4, 5 and 6 support two connectors with four rows (440 pins). EmETXe-a10M3 is a Type-6 module. Difference between Standard Type 6 and EmETXe-a10M3 is listed as below: Module Type...
Board Overview 2.4 Connector Pin Definition Being a most commonly-used Type 6, the EmETXe-a10M3 features two board- to-board connectors on bottom side. Top Side Bottom Side COM Express AB Connector COM Express CD Connector - 11 -...
Installation & Maintenance 3.1 Installing the CPU Module to Carrier Board 1. Mount the EmETXe-a10M3 into PBE-1705 via COM Express connectors as below; that is, COM Express AB to AB and CD to CD. CD connector AB connector 2. Install the optional heat spreader or heat sink with fan to the COM module.
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Installation & Maintenance For heat sink with fan Apply thermal grease to the CPU area on the CPU module. Place the heat sink over the CPU module and fasten the six screws to secure it in place. Then connect the fan cable to the fan connector on the carrier board.
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BIOS 4.1 Main The Aptio BIOS provides a Setup utility program for specifying the system configurations and settings. The BIOS RAM of the system stores the Setup utility and configurations. When you turn on the computer, the AMI BIOS is immediately activated.
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BIOS Delivers the level by which the BIOS Setup utility is Access Level being accessed at the moment. Key Commands BIOS Setup Utility is mainly a key-based navigation interface. Please refer to the following key command instructions for navigation process. Keystroke Function Move to highlight a particular configuration screen from...
BIOS 4.2 Advanced Setting Description AMD CBS 4.2.1 AMD CBS on page CPU Configuration 4.2.2 CPU Configuration on page 24 AMC fTPM Configuration See 4.2.3 AMD fTPM Configuration on page 25 PCI Subsystem Settings See 4.2.4 PCI Subsystem Settings on page ACPI Settings 4.2.5 ACPI Settings on page...
BIOS S5 RTC Wake Settings on page 4.2.13 S5 RTC Wake Settings CSM Configuration 4.2.14 CSM Configuration on page 40 4.2.1 AMD CBS Setting Description Gloabl C-Sate Control Zen Common Op- Enables or Disables (default) IO based C-stat genera- tions tion and DF C-states.
BIOS 4.2.4 PCI Subsystem Settings Setting Description Value to be programmed into PCI Latency timer Register. PCI Latency Timer Default: 32 PCI Bus Clocks ► PCI-X Latency Value to be programmed into PCI Latency timer Register. Timer Default: 64 PCI Bus Clocks ►...
BIOS 4.2.5 ACPI Settings Aptio Setup Utility - Copyright (C) 2012 American Megatrends, Inc. Aptio Setup Utility - Copyright (C) 2016 American Megatrends, Inc. Advanced ACPI Settings Select ACPI sleep state the system will ACPI Sleep State [S3 only(Suspend to ...] enter when the SUSPEND Enable Hibernation [Enabled]...
BIOS 4.2.6 Trusted Computing Setting Description Enable (default) or Disable BIOS support for security Security Device device. O.S. will not show Security Device. TCG EFI Support protocol and INT1A interface will not be available. Select the TPM device: Options: TPM 1.2, TPM 2.0 and Auto (default) ►...
BIOS 4.2.8 USB Configuration Select this submenu to view the status of the USB ports and configure USB features. Setting Description Sets legacy USB support. Options: Enabled (default), Disabled and Auto. ► Legacy USB AUTO option disables legacy support if no USB Support devices are connected.
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BIOS USB hardware delay and time-out Use this item to set the time-out value for control, bulk, USB Transfer time- and interrupt transfers. Options available are: 1 sec, 5 sec, 10 sec, 20 sec ► (default) Use this item to set USB mass storage device start unit Device reset time- command time-out.
BIOS 4.2.10 Super IO Configuration Setting Description Serial Port 1/2/3/4 & Par- See next page. allel Port Configuration Specify what state to go to when power is re-applied after a power failure. Restore AC Power Loss Options: Last State, Power On and ►...
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BIOS Serial Port 1/2/3/4 Configuration Setting Description Serial Port Enable (default) or Disable Serial Port (COM). Select an optimal setting for Super IO device. Options for Serial Port 1: ► Auto; IO=3F8h; IRQ=4 (default) ; IO=2F8h; IRQ=3, 4, 7, 10, 11, 12; Options for Serial Port 2: ►...
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BIOS Change the Printer Port mode. Options: ► STD Printer Mode (default) Device Mode (only SPP Mode for Parallel Port EPP-1.9 and SPP Mode Configuration) EPP-1.7 and SPP Mode ECP Mode ECP and EPP 1.9 Mode ECP and EPP 1.7 Mode. - 35 -...
BIOS 4.2.12 Serial Port Redirection Setting Description Enable or Disable (default) console redirection. Console Redirection Following submenu is available only when Console Redirection is set to Enabled. Legacy Console Redirection Settings Select a COM port to display redirectino of Legacey Redirection COM Port OS and Legacy OPROM message.
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BIOS When Bootloader is selected, then Legacy Console Redirection is disabled before booting to legacy OS. When Always Enable is selected, then Legacy Con- sole Redirection is enabled for legacy OS. Default settinf for this option is set to Always Enable Redirect After POST Options available are: Always Enable(default): set the Redirection to...
BIOS 4.2.13 S5 RTC Wake Settings Setting Description Enable or Disable (default) system wake on alarm event. Options available are: ► Disabled (default): Wake System Fixed Time: System will wake on the hr::min::sec from S5 specifiedc. DynamicTime: If selected, you need to set Wake up minute increase from 1 - 5.
BIOS 4.2.14 CSM Configuration Setting Description CSM Support Enable (default) or Disable CSM Support. Control the Legacy/UEFI ROMs priority. Boot option filter Options: UEFI and Legacy (default), Legacy only ► and UEFI only Control the execution of UEFI and Legacy PXE OpROM Network Options: Do not lauch (default), UEFI and Legacy ►...
BIOS 4.3 Chipset Setting Description SB USB Configuratoin on page 4.3.1 SB USB Config PCI-E Port on page 4.3.2 PCI-E Port Display Configuration on page 4.3.2 Display Configuration - 41 -...
BIOS 4.3.2 PCI-E Port Setting Description PCIe Port Con- Enable (default) or disable the PCIe port. trol Device 1 Select Device 1 function. Fun1~7 Options: Auto (default), Disabled, and Enabled ► Disable or set the ASPM level. Force L0s will force all inks to L0s state.
BIOS 4.5 Security The Security menu sets up the administrator password. Setting Description To set up an administrator password: 1. Select Administrator Password. The screen then pops up an Create New Password Administrator dialog. Password 2. Enter your desired password that is no less than 3 char- acters and no more than 20 characters.
BIOS 4.6 Boot Setting Description Select the keyboard NumLock state. Boot NumLock State Options: On and Off (default). ► Quiet Boot Enable or Disable (default) Quiet Boot option. Enable or Disable (default) boot with initializa- tion of a minimal set of devices required to launch Fast Boot active boot option.
BIOS 4.6 Save & Exit Setting Description Exit system setup after saving the changes. Save Changes and Enter the item and then a dialog box pops up: ► Exit Save configuration and exit? (Yes/ No) Exit system setup without saving the changes. Discard Changes and Enter the item and then a dialog box pops up: ►...
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Appendix Appendix A: I/O Port Address Map Each peripheral device in the system is assigned a set of I/O port addresses which also becomes the identity of the device. The following table lists the I/O port addresses used. Address Device Description 03F8-03FF Communications Port (COM1) 02F8-02FF...
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Appendix 0040-0043 System timer 0B00-0B1F SM Bus 0 Controller 0B20-0B3F SM Bus 1 Controller FE00-FEFF Standard SATA AHCI Controller FF00-FF1F Standard SATA AHCI Controller - 51 -...
Appendix Appendix C: Interrupt Request Lines (IRQ) Peripheral devices use interrupt request lines to notify CPU for the service required. The following table shows the IRQ used by the devices on board. Level Function IRQ0 System timer IRQ1 PS/2 Keyboard IRQ3 Communications Port (COM2) IRQ4...
Appendix Appendix D: Watchdog Timer (WDT) Setting WDT is widely used for industry application to monitor the activity of CPU. Ap- plication software depends on its requirement to trigger WDT with adequate timer setting. Before WDT time out, the functional normal system will reload the WDT.
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Appendix outportb(sioIndex, 0xF0); /* Enable WDTRST# Output */ outportb(sioData, 0x80); iWDTCount = iCount; outportb(sioIndex, 0xF6); /* Set WDT Timeout value */ outportb(sioData, iCount); outportb(sioIndex, 0xF5); /* Set Configure and Enable WDT timer, Start countdown */ outportb(sioData, 0x32); outportb(sioIndex, 0xAA); /* Disable Super I/O */ void WDT_Stop(void) outportb(sioIndex, 0x87);...
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