Development board for com express type 6 pinout modules (66 pages)
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User Manual SOM-C350 12th Gen Intel® Core™ Processors (Alder Lake S) COM- HPC Client Size C Module...
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No part of this manual may be reproduced, copied, translated or transmitted in any form or by any means without the prior written permission of Advantech Co., Ltd. Information provided in this manual is intended to be accurate and reliable. How- ever, Advantech Co., Ltd.
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Class I, Division 2, Groups A, B, C and D indoor hazards. Technical Support and Assistance Visit the Advantech website at http://support.advantech.com where you can find the latest information about the product. Contact your distributor, sales representative, or Advantech's customer service center for technical support if you need additional assistance.
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Before setting up the system, check that the items listed below are included and in good condition. If any item does not accord with the table, please contact your dealer immediately. SOM-C350 CPU module 1 x heatspreader (1970005474T001) ...
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2C (2+0) 3.6GHz 16 EU 0 ~ 60 °C H6A1 Packing list Part No. Description Quantity SOM-C350 COM module 1970005474 Heatspreader of SOM-C350 T001 Development Board Part No. Description COM-HPC Development Board for Client Pinout with 5 mm High SOM-DH3000-00A1...
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The sound pressure level at the operator's position according to IEC 704-1:1982 is no more than 70 dB (A). DISCLAIMER: This set of instructions is given according to IEC 704-1. Advantech disclaims all responsibility for the accuracy of any statements contained herein.
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Serial Presence Detect – refers to serial EEPROM on DRAMs that has DRAM Module configuration information Trusted Platform Module, chip to enhance the security features of a com- puter system UEFI Unified Extensible Firmware Interface Watchdog Timer SOM-C350 User Manual...
Chapter General Information This chapter details background information on the SOM-C350 CPU Computer on Module. Sections include: Introduction Functional Block Diagram Product Specification...
C350 supports Intel Iris Xe graphics, and Advantech's ready-to-use Edge AI Suite software toolkit. SOM-C350 is designed to support up to 128GB DDR5 3600 and diverse super speed I/O interfaces; including - PCIe Gen 5 (16GT/s) and 2.5Gbase-T, and USB 3.2 Gen2 (10Gbps).
J1-J2 BIOS) USB C PD I2C Soundwire / DMIC I2S / 2xSNDW HD Audio SATA eSPI BOOT_SPI GP_SPI GPIO MISC Functional Safety Fan PWM / Tachometer Trusted Platform Modules J1-J2 Power J1-J2 Standby Power PowerI J1-J2 RSVD SOM-C350 User Manual...
2 (2+0) 3.6GHz 1.3.4 Memory There are a total of 4 memory sockets on SOM-C350, two on the top side by default and two on the bottom side. These support 128GB max capacity with 262pin SO- DIMM sockets (dual-channel). 1.3.5 Graphics / Audio Graphics Core: 12th gen Intel Iris Xe Graphics Core supports DX12, OGL4.5,...
PCI Express x1: Supports default 9 ports PCIe x1 compliant to PCIe Gen3 (8.0 GT/s) specifications, configurable to PCIe x4 or PCIe x2. Several configurable combina- tions may need BIOS modification. Please contact the Advantech sales or FAE for more details.
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Notice: Advantech strongly recommends using a certificated cable to maximize USB 3.2 gen2 performance. USB 3.2 Client Type Client Type OC_01 OC_23 OC_45 OC_67 SoC USB_OC# OC_01 OC_23 OC_45 OC_67 USB 2.0 Client Type Client Type OC_01 OC_23...
Link: http://com.advantech.com 1.3.13 OS Support The mission of Advantech Embedded Software Services is to "Enhance the quality of life with Advantech platforms and Microsoft Windows Embedded technology." We enable Windows Embedded software products on Advantech platforms to more effectively support the embedded computing community.
The layout checklist will specify the layout constraints and recommendations for trace length, impedance, and other necessary information during design. Please contact your nearest Advantech branch office or call for getting the design documents and further advance supports. SOM-C350 User Manual...
Chapter Mechanical Information This chapter details mechanical information on the SOM-C350 CPU Computer on Module. Sections include: Board Information Mechanical Diagram Assembly Diagram...
Board Information The figures below indicate the main chips on SOM-C350 Computer-on-Module. Please be aware of these positions while designing your own carrier board to avoid mechanical issues and ensure thermal solution contact points for best thermal dissi- pation performance.
Mechanical Diagrams For more details about 2D/3D models, please find on Advantech COM support ser- vice website http://com.advantech.com. Figure 2.3 Board Mechanical Diagram - Front 33.56 33.56 33.56 33.56 Figure 2.4 Board Mechanical Diagram - Rear SOM-C350 User Manual...
Assembly Diagrams These figures demonstrate the assembly order from the thermal module, to the COM module, to the carrier board. Figure 2.6 Assembly Diagram There are 6 reserved screw holes for SOM-C350 to be pre-assembled with heat spreader. SOM-C350 User Manual...
CPU Package Design Please consider the CPU and chip height tolerance when designing your thermal solution. Item LGA 1700 IHS to MB Height (validated range) 6.529 ~ 7.532 mm Figure 2.9 CPU and CPU Socket Height and Tolerance SOM-C350 User Manual...
Chapter BIOS Operation This chapter details BIOS setup information for the SOM-C350 CPU Computer on Module. Sections include: Introduction Entering Setup Hot / Operation Key Exit BIOS Setup Utility...
This information is stored in flash ROM so it retains the Setup information when the power is turned off. Entering Setup Turn on the computer and then press <DEL> or <ESC> to enter the Setup menu. SOM-C350 User Manual...
System Date using the <Arrow> keys. Enter new values through the keyboard. Press the <Tab> key or the <Arrow> keys to move between fields. The date must be entered in MM/DD/YY format. The time must be entered in HH:MM: SS format. SOM-C350 User Manual...
3.2.2 Advanced BIOS Features Setup Select the Advanced tab from the SOM-C350 setup screen to enter the Advanced BIOS Setup screen. Users can select any item in the left frame of the screen, such as CPU Configuration, to go to the sub menu for that item. Users can display an Advanced BIOS Setup option by highlighting it using the <Arrow>...
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Figure 3.4 RC ACPI Settings Low Power S0 Idle Capability This variable determines if we enable ACPI Lower Power S0 Idle Capability (Mutually exclusive with Smart connect). While this is enabled, it also disables 8254 timer for SLP_S0 support. SOM-C350 User Manual...
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3.2.2.2 Active Performance-cores Figure 3.5 Active Performance-cores Active Performance-cores Number of P-cores to enable in processor package. Note: Number of Cores and E-cores are locked at together. When both are {0,0}, Pcode will enable all cores. SOM-C350 User Manual...
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Cores and E-cores are locked at together. When both are {0,0}, Pcode will Hyper-Threading Enable or Disable Hyper-Threading Technology. Enable/Disable AES (Advanced Encryption Standard) MonitorMwait Enable/Disable Monitor Mwait. Intel Trusted Execution Technology Enables utilization of additional hardware capabilities provided by Intel (R) Trusted Execution Technology. SOM-C350 User Manual...
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Power & Performance Figure 3.7 Power & Performance CPU - Power Management Control CPU - Power Management Control Options GT - Power Management Control GT - Power Management Control Options CPU - Power Management Control SOM-C350 User Manual...
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Figure 3.8 Power & Performance – Boot performance mode Figure 3.9 Power & Performance - Boot performance mode Select the performance state that the BIOS will set starting from reset vector. - Intel(R) SpeedStep(tm) SOM-C350 User Manual...
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Enable/Disable CPU Power Management. Allows CPU to go to C states when it's not 100% utilized. GT - Power Management Control GT - Power Management Control – RC6(Render Standby) Check to enable render standby support. SOM-C350 User Manual...
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Figure 3.10 Embedded Controller Configuration AMT Configuration Configure Intel(R) Active Management Technology Parameters ME Unconfig on RTC Clear When Disabled ME will nor unconfigured on RTC clear Firmware Update Configuration Configure Management Engine Technology Parameters SOM-C350 User Manual...
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AMT configuration Figure 3.11 AMT Configuration 3.2.2.6 Trusted Computing Figure 3.12 Trusted Computing SHA256 PCR Bank SOM-C350 User Manual...
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TPM 2.0 devices, Auto will support both with the default set to TPM 2.0 devices if not found, TPM 1.2 devices will be enumerated Disable Block Sid Override to allow SID authentication in TCG Storage device Pending operation Figure 3.13 Pending operation SOM-C350 User Manual...
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Physical Presence Spec Version Figure 3.14 Physical Presence Spec Version Device Select Figure 3.15 Device Select SOM-C350 User Manual...
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OS. ACPI Sleep State Select the highest ACPI sleep state the system will enter when the SUSPEND button is pressed. S3 Video Repost Enable or Disable S3 Video Repost SOM-C350 User Manual...
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Set Parameters of Serial Port 1 (COMA) Serial Port 2 Configuration Set Parameters of Serial Port 2 (COMB) Hardware Monitor Monitor hardware status ACPI Report Method Configuration Select ACPI Reporting Method for EC Devices. CAN0 Control SOM-C350 User Manual...
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Enable/Disable SMBus0 controller on RDC-IS200. Serial Port 1 Configuration Figure 3.18 Serial Port 1 Configuration – Serial Port Enable or Disable Serial Port (COM) – Change Settings Select an optimal settings for Super IO Device SOM-C350 User Manual...
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Serial Port 2 Configuration Figure 3.19 Serial Port 2 Configuration – Serial Port Enable or Disable Serial Port (COM) – Change Settings Select an optimal settings for Super IO Device Hardware Monitor SOM-C350 User Manual...
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Figure 3.20 Hardware Monitor ACPI Report Method Configuration Figure 3.21 ACPI Report Method Configuration – ACPI Report Method for CAN Bus SOM-C350 User Manual...
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The settings specify how the host computer and the remote computer (which the user is using) will exchange data. Both computers should have the same or compatible settings. COM2 Console Redirection Console Redirection Enable or Disable. SOM-C350 User Manual...
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– Parity A parity bit can be sent with the data bits to detect some transmission errors. Even: parity bit is 0 if the num of 1's in the data bits is even. Odd: parity bit is SOM-C350 User Manual...
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Putty KeyPad Select FunctionKey and KeyPad on Putty. Legacy Console Redirection Settings Figure 3.24 Legacy Console Redirection Settings – Redirection COM Port Select a COM port to display redirection of Legacy OS and Legacy OPROM Messages SOM-C350 User Manual...
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'stop' signal can be sent to stop the data flow. Once 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. – Data Bits EMS – Parity EMS SOM-C350 User Manual...
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Stop bits indicate the end of a serial data packet. (A start bit indicates the beginning). The standard setting is 1 stop bit. Communication with slow devices may require more than 1 stop bit. 3.2.2.10 Intel TXT Information Figure 3.26 Intel TXT Information SOM-C350 User Manual...
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Hub descriptor. GH PicoBoost PMAP Mass storage device emulation type. ‘Auto’ enumerates devices according to their media format. Optical drivers are emulated as ‘CDROM’, drivers with no media will be emulated according to a driver type. SOM-C350 User Manual...
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Wait time in seconds to press ESC key to abort the PXE boot. Use either +/- or numeric keys to set the value Media detect count Number of times presence of media will be checked. Use either +/- or numeric keys to set the value SOM-C350 User Manual...
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PCI Express Configuration PCI Express Configuration Settings VT-d VT-d capability Above 4GB MMIO BIOS assignment Enable/Disable above 4GB memory mapped IO BIOS assignment. This is enabled automatically when aperture size is set to 2048MB. SOM-C350 User Manual...
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Maximum value of TOLUD. Dynamic assignment would adjust TOLUD auto- matically based on the largest MMIO length of installed graphic controller – SA GV System Agent Geyserville. Can disable, fix to a specific point, or enable fre- quency switching. SOM-C350 User Manual...
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Select the aperture size. Note: Above 4GB MMIO BIOS assignment is atomi- cally enabled when selecting 2048MB aperture. To use this feature, please disable CSM support. – DVMT Pre-Allocated Select DVMT5.0 pre-allocated (fixed) Graphics Memory size is used by the internal graphics device SOM-C350 User Manual...
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Map this Root Port under VMD – RAID0 Enable/Disable RAID0 feature. – RAID1 Enable/Disable RAID1 feature. – RAID5 Enable/Disable RAID5 feature. – RAID10 Enable/Disable RAID10 feature. – Intel(R) Optane(TM) Memory Enable/Disable System Acceleration with Intel(R) Optane(TM) Memory fea- ture. SOM-C350 User Manual...
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PCI Express Configuration Figure 3.35 PCI Express Configuration – PEG PCIe Port Config Config PEG PCIe Lane 0~15 setting – PCI Express Root Port 1 – PCI Express Root Port 2 – PCI Express Root Port 3 SOM-C350 User Manual...
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- Connection Type Built-In: a built-in device is connected to this rootport. SlotImplemented bit will be clear. Slot: this rootport connects to user-accessible slot. SlotImple- mented bit will be set. - ASPM PCI Express Active State Power Management settings SOM-C350 User Manual...
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Pcie Ref Pll SSC Percentatge. AUTO - Keep hw default, no BIOS override. Range is 0.0%-0.5% IOTG PLL SSCEN (CPU side SSC) Enable/Disable IOTG PLL SSCEN SPD Write Disable Enable/Disable setting SPD Write Disable. For security recommendations, SPD write disable bit must be set. SOM-C350 User Manual...
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Figure 3.38 PCI Express Configuration – Intel Ethernet Controller I225 (Foxville LAN0) PCI Express Root Port Settings.(Flex I/O Lane #10); CN2 – Intel Ethernet Controller I225 (Foxville LAN0) PCI Express Root Port Settings. (Flex I/O Lane #11); CN3 SOM-C350 User Manual...
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PCIe Controller #7 (Port 25-28) – PCI Express Root Port 25 PCI Express Root Port Settings. (Flex I/O Lane #34); PCIEX4_2 – PCI Express Root Port 26 – PCI Express Root Port 27 – PCI Express Root Port 28 SOM-C350 User Manual...
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Slot: this rootport connects to user-accessible slot. SlotImple- mented bit will be set. - ASPM PCI Express Active State Power Management settings - Hot plug PCI Express hot plug enable/disable - PCIe Speed Configure PCIe Speed SOM-C350 User Manual...
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Slot: this rootport connects to user-accessible slot. SlotImple- mented bit will be set. - ASPM PCI Express Active State Power Management settings - Hot plug PCI Express hot plug enable/disable - PCIe Speed Configure PCIe Speed SOM-C350 User Manual...
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SATA Controller Speed Indicates the maximum speed the SATA controller can support. – Port 0 Enable or Disable SATA Port – SATA Device Type Identify the SATA port is connected to Solid State Drive or Hard Disk Drive SOM-C350 User Manual...
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Selectively Enable/Disable the corresponding USB port from reporting a Device Connection to the controller. – USB SS Physical Connector #0 Enable/Disable this USB Physical Connector (physical port). Once disabled, any USB devices plug into the connector will not be detected by BIOS or OS. SOM-C350 User Manual...
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– RTC Memory Lock Enable will lock bytes 38h-3Fh in the lower/upper 126 -byte bank of RTC – BIOS Lock Enable/Disable the PCH BIOS lock enable feature. Required to be enabled to ensure SMM protection of flash SOM-C350 User Manual...
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HD Audio Subsystem Configuration Settings Figure 3.44 HD Audio Subsystem Configuration Settings – HD Audio Control Detection of the HD-Audio device. Disabled=HDA will be uncondi- tionally disabled. Enabled=HDA will be unconditionally enabled. SOM-C350 User Manual...
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System is in User mode. The mode change requires platform reset Secure Boot Mode Secure Boot mode options: Standard or Custom. In Custom mode, Secure Boot Policy variables can be configured by a physi- cally present user without full authentication SOM-C350 User Manual...
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Select the keyboard NumLock state Quiet Boot Enables or disables Quiet Boot option Boot Option #1 Sets the system boot order Fast Boot Enable or Disable FastBoot features. Most probes are skipped to reduce time cost during boot. SOM-C350 User Manual...
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Restore/Load Default values for all the setup options. Save as User Defaults Save the changes done so far as User Defaults. Restore User Defaults Restore the User Defaults to all the setup options. Boot Override SOM-C350 User Manual...
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3.2.6 MEBx Login Intel® ME Password MEBx Login SOM-C350 User Manual...
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More details of how to use the APIs and utilities, please refer to the Advantech iManager 2.0 Software API User Manual. SOM-C350 User Manual...
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Appendix Pin Assignment This appendix details information about the hardware pin assign- ment of the SOM-C350 CPU Sys- tem on Module. Sections include: SOM-C350 Client Size Pin Assignment...
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This section gives SOM-C350 pin assignment on COM HPC connector which compli- ant with COM-HPC Revision 1.10 Client Type pin-out definitions. For more details about how to use these pins and get design reference, please contact to Advantech for design guide, checklist, reference schematic, and other hardware/software sup- ports.
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D18 could be an optional pin reserved for DDI1_CTRLDATA. Please contact FAE for details. D63 could be an optional pin reserved for DDI2_CTRLCLK. Please contact FAE for details. D64 could be an optional pin reserved for DDI2_CTRLDATA. Please contact FAE for details. SOM-C350 User Manual...
Appendix Watchdog Timer This appendix details information about the watchdog timer pro- gramming on the SOM-C350 CPU System on Module. Sections include: Watchdog Timer Programming...
** WDT new driver support automatically select available IRQ number from BIOS, and then set to EC. Only Win8.1 and Win10 support it. In other OS, it will still use IRQ number from BIOS setting as usual. For details, please refer to iManager & Software API User Manual: SOM-C350 User Manual...
Appendix Programming GPIO This Appendix details illustration of the General Purpose Input and Output pin settings. Sections include: GPIO Register...
Appendix System Assignments This appendix gives you the infor- mation about the system resource allocation on the SOM-C350 CPU System on Module. Sections include: System I/O ports Interrupt Assignments 1st MB Memory Map...
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