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In no event shall congatec AG be liable for any incidental, consequential, special, or exemplary damages, whether based on tort, contract or otherwise, arising out of or in connection with this user’s guide or any other information...
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(c) arising from course of performance, course of dealing, or usage of trade. congatec AG shall in no event be liable to the end user for collateral or consequential damages of any kind. congatec AG shall not otherwise be liable for loss, damage or expense directly or indirectly arising from the use of the product or from any other cause.
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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.
• • 8x USB 2.0 (UHCI and EHCI) • SM Bus UEFI 2.x firmware, 4MByte serial SPI with congatec Embedded BIOS features BIOS AMI Aptio ® ACPI 3.0 compliant with battery support. Also supports Suspend to RAM (S3). Power Management Note Some of the features mentioned in the above Feature Summary are optional.
If for some reason it is not possible to use the appropriate congatec module heatspreader, then it is the responsibility of the operator to ensure that all components found on the module operate within the component manufacturer’s specified temperature range.
LPC Bus. 8.2.1 4.1.6 I²C Bus Fast mode The I²C bus is implemented through the congatec board controller (STMicroelectronics STM32). It provides a Fast Mode multi-master I²C Bus that has maximum I²C bandwidth. 4.1.7 PCI Express™...
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0.8V when the 12V is applied to the module. Actively driving PWR_OK high is compliant to the COM Express specification but this can cause back driving. Therefore, congatec recommends driving the PWR_OK low to keep the module in reset and tri-state PWR_OK when the carrier board hardware is ready to boot.
The conga-TCA is equipped with a STMicroelectronics STM32 microcontroller. This onboard microcontroller plays an important role for most of the congatec embedded/industrial PC 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 Code With the congatec embedded BIOS it is even possible for system designers to add their own code to the BIOS POST process. Except for custom specific code, this feature can also be used to support Win XP SLP installation, Window 7 SLIC table, verb tables for HDA codecs, rare graphic modes and Super I/O controllers.
EAPI (Embedded Application Programming Interface) is a programming interface defined by the PICMG that addresses this problem. With this unified API, it is now possible to run the same application on all vendor’s COMs that offer EAPI driver support. Contact congatec technical support for more information about EAPI.
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™...
On the conga-TCA, the internal PCI Bus acts as the subtractive decoding agent. All I/O cycles that are not positively decoded are forwarded to the internal PCI Bus not the LPC Bus. Only specified I/O ranges are forwarded to the LPC Bus. In the congatec Embedded BIOS the following I/O address ranges are sent to the LPC Bus: 2Eh –...
Parts of these ranges are not available if a Super I/O is used on the carrier board. If a Super I/O is not implemented on the carrier board, then these ranges are available for customer use. If you require additional LPC Bus resources other than those mentioned above, or more information about this subject, contact congatec technical support for assistance. Interrupt Request (IRQ) Lines...
These interrupt lines are virtual (message based) 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 CG82NM10 (NM10) PCH and the SM bus is not intended to be used by ®...
POST allowing the operator to select either the boot device that should be used or an option to enter the BIOS setup program. Setup Menu and Navigation The congatec BIOS setup screen is composed of the menu bar and two main frames. The menu bar is shown below: Main Advanced...
Serial Number Displays the serial number of the board. no option BC Firmware Rev. Displays the revision of the congatec board controller. no option Displays the MAC address of the onboard Ethernet controller. MAC Address no option Displays the number of boot-ups. (max. 16777215).
VGA 640x480 1x18 (013h) Auto detection is performed by reading an EDID data set via the video I²C bus. The number in brackets specifies the congatec internal number of the respective panel data set. WVGA 800x480 1x24 (01Bh) Note: Customized EDID™ utilizes an OEM defined EDID™ data set stored in the BIOS flash device.
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Note In ACPI mode it is not possible for a “Watchdog ACPI Event” handler to directly restart or shutdown the OS. For this reason, the congatec BIOS will do one of the following: For Shutdown: An over temperature notification is executed. This causes the OS to shut down in an orderly fashion.
Enabled If Enabled, a congatec OEM logo or a black screen shows during POST. The black screen shows only if the OEM logo is not found. If Auto, a congatec OEM boot logo loads if present. If no OEM boot logo is found, the system shows POST strings and congatec Auto boot logo.
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Note 1. The term ‘AC power loss’ stands for the state when the module looses the standby voltage on the 5V_SB pins. On congatec modules, the standby voltage is continuously monitored after the system is turned off. If within 30 seconds the standby voltage is no longer detected, then this is considered an AC power loss condition.
The BIOS displays a message during POST and on the main setup screen identifying the BIOS project name and a revision code. The initial production BIOS is identified as TCEDR1xx where TCED is the congatec internal project name, R is the identifier for a BIOS ROM file, 1 is the so called feature number and xx is the major and minor revision number.
Industry Specifications The list below provides links to industry specifications that apply to congatec AG modules. Specification Link Low Pin Count Interface Specification, Revision 1.0 (LPC) http://developer.intel.com/design/chipsets/industry/lpc.htm Universal Serial Bus (USB) Specification, Revision 2.0 http://www.usb.org/home PCI Specification, Revision 2.3 http://www.pcisig.com/specifications Serial ATA Specification, Revision 3.0...
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