Table Of Contents - Congatec COM Express conga-B915 User Manual

Contents
1 Specifications ........................................................................... 12
1.1 Feature List .............................................................................. 12
1.2 Supported Operating Systems ................................................. 13
1.3 Mechanical Dimensions ........................................................... 13
1.4 Supply Voltage Standard Power .............................................. 14
1.4.1 Electrical Characteristics .......................................................... 14
1.4.2 Rise Time ................................................................................. 14
1.5 Power Consumption ................................................................. 15
1.5.1 Intel Celeron M 600MHz 512k L2 cache ............................... 16
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1.5.2 Intel Celeron M 1.0GHz 512k L2 cache ................................. 17
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1.5.3 Intel Celeron M 1.5GHz 1MB L2 cache .................................. 17
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1.6 Supply Voltage Battery Power ................................................. 17
1.6.1 CMOS Battery Power Consumption ........................................ 18
1.7 Environmental Specifications ................................................... 18
2 Block Diagram .......................................................................... 19
3 Heatspreader ........................................................................... 20
3.1 Heatspreader Dimensions ....................................................... 21
4 Connector Subsystems Rows A, B, C, D ................................. 22
4.1 Primary Connector Rows A and B ............................................ 23
4.1.1 Serial ATA™ (SATA) ................................................................. 23
4.1.2 USB 2.0 .................................................................................... 23
4.1.3 AC'97 Digital Audio Interface/HDA ........................................... 23
4.1.4 Gigabit Ethernet ...................................................................... 23
4.1.5 LPC Bus ................................................................................... 24
4.1.6 I²C Bus 400kHz ........................................................................ 24
4.1.7 PCI Express™ ......................................................................... 24
4.1.8 ExpressCard™ ......................................................................... 24
4.1.9 Graphics Output (VGA/CRT) ................................................... 24
4.1.10 LCD .......................................................................................... 24
4.1.11 Power Control .......................................................................... 25
4.1.12 Power Management ................................................................. 26
4.2 Secondary Connector Rows C and D ...................................... 26
4.2.1 PCI Express Graphics (PEG) ................................................... 26
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4.2.2 SDVO ....................................................................................... 26
4.2.3 PCI Bus .................................................................................... 26
4.2.4 IDE (PATA) ............................................................................... 26
5 Additional Features .................................................................. 27
5.1 Watchdog ................................................................................. 27
5.2 Onboard Microcontroller .......................................................... 27
5.3 Embedded BIOS ...................................................................... 27
5.3.1 Simplified Overview of BIOS Setup Data Backup .................... 28
5.4 Security Features ..................................................................... 29
5.5 Suspend to Ram ...................................................................... 29
5.6 congatec Battery Management Interface ................................. 29
6 conga Tech Notes .................................................................... 30
6.1 Comparison of I/O APIC to 8259 PIC Interrupt mode .............. 30
6.2 Native vs. Compatible IDE mode ............................................. 30
6.2.1 Compatible Mode ..................................................................... 30
6.2.2 Native ...................................................................................... 30
6.3 Intel Processor Features ........................................................ 31
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6.3.1 Thermal Monitor and Catastrophic Thermal Protection ........... 31
6.3.2 Processor Performance Control ............................................... 32
6.4 Thermal Management .............................................................. 33
6.5 ACPI Suspend Modes and Resume Events ............................ 34
6.6 USB 2.0 EHCI Host Controller Support ................................... 36
7 Signal Descriptions and Pinout Tables ..................................... 37
7.1 A-B Connector Signal Descriptions .......................................... 38
7.2 A-B Connector Pinout .............................................................. 45
7.3 C-D Connector Signal Descriptions ......................................... 47
7.4 C-D Connector Pinout .............................................................. 53
7.5 Boot Strap Signals ................................................................... 55
8 System Resources ................................................................... 56
8.1 System Memory Map ............................................................... 56
8.2 I/O Address Assignment ........................................................... 57
8.2.1 LPC Bus ................................................................................... 58
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