CT-XHW0X Intel 4th Gen Core Processor i7/i5/i3/Celeron Industrial Mini-ITX MB I. Preface 1.1 Disclaimer All specifications and information in this User’s Manual are believed to be accurate and up to date. C&T Solution Inc. does not guarantee that the contents herein are complete, true, accurate or non-misleading. The information in this document is subject to change without notice and does not represent a commitment on the part of C&T Solution Inc.
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CT-XHW0X Intel 4th Gen Core Processor i7/i5/i3/Celeron Industrial Mini-ITX MB All other products and trademarks mentioned in this manual are trademarks of their respective owners. 6...
Intel 4th Gen Core Processor i7/i5/i3/Celeron Industrial Mini-ITX MB II. Introduction 2.1 Product Description The CT-XHW0X is a single board computer in the Mini-IXT form factor. Its LGA1150 socket is for Intel® 4 Generation Core i7/i5/i3/Celeron processor, which is with the new 22 nm process technology. The two 240-pin DIMM sockets are for dual channel DDR3/DDR3L 1333/1600MHz memory with maximum capacity up to 32GB.
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CT-XHW0X Intel 4th Gen Core Processor i7/i5/i3/Celeron Industrial Mini-ITX MB 4 x SATA3 ports (2 x SATA3 for H81 SKU) 6 x USB2.0 ports 3 x RS-232 ports 1 x 8-bit GPIO 1 x front panel audio ...
CT-XHW0X Intel 4th Gen Core Processor i7/i5/i3/Celeron Industrial Mini-ITX MB III. Mechanical Specification Module Dimensions The PCB size of CT-XHW0X is 170mm x 170mm, the standard mini-ITX size. 12...
CT-XHW0X Intel 4th Gen Core Processor i7/i5/i3/Celeron Industrial Mini-ITX MB 3.2.1 Connectors Connector Description ATX_POWER ATX Power Connector ATX_CPU CPU Power Connector SATA Port 1 Connecter SATA Port 2 Connecter SATA Port 3 Connecter (Reserved on H81 SKU) SATA Port 4 Connecter (Reserved on H81 SKU) COM 1 (RS-232/422/485) &...
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CT-XHW0X Intel 4th Gen Core Processor i7/i5/i3/Celeron Industrial Mini-ITX MB Pin Signal Front Pin Signal Front Pin Signal Back Pin Signal Back M_DQS_A_DN2 M_DQS_A _DN4 M_DQS_A_DP2 M_DQS_A _DP4 M_DATA_A22 M_DATA_A38 M_DATA_A18 M_DATA_A34 M_DATA_A23 M_DATA_A39 M_DATA_A19 M_DATA_A35 M_DATA_A28 M_DATA_A44 M_DATA_A24 M_DATA_A40...
CT-XHW0X Intel 4th Gen Core Processor i7/i5/i3/Celeron Industrial Mini-ITX MB Pin Signal Front Pin Signal Front Pin Signal Back Pin Signal Back M_MAA_A4 SPD_A2 DDR_15V DDR_15V DDRVTT M_MAA_A3 DDRVTT 3.3.12.2 DIMM_2 Pin Signal Front Pin Signal Front Pin Signal Back...
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CT-XHW0X Intel 4th Gen Core Processor i7/i5/i3/Celeron Industrial Mini-ITX MB Pin Signal Front Pin Signal Front Pin Signal Back Pin Signal Back M_DATA_B25 M_DATA_B41 M_DQS_B_DN3 M_DQS_B_DN5 M_DQS_B_DP3 M_DQS_B_DP5 M_DATA_B30 M_DATA_B46 M_DATA_B26 M_DATA_B42 M_DATA_B31 M_DATA_B47 M_DATA_B27 M_DATA_B43 M_DATA_B_CB4 M_DATA_B52 M_DATA_B_CB0 M_DATA_B48...
CT-XHW0X Intel 4th Gen Core Processor i7/i5/i3/Celeron Industrial Mini-ITX MB Signal Signal DPC_TX3- DNG_DET N15231297 DP_AUX_P DP_AUX_N DP2_HDP_F +3.3V 3.4.3.2 HDMI (Bottom) Signal Signal HDMI_TX2_DP_B HDMI_TX2_DN_B HDMI_TX1_DP_B HDMI_TX1_DN_B HDMI_TX0_DP_B HDMI_TX0_DN_B HDMI_CLK_DP_B HDMI_CLK_DN_B HDMI_SCLDDC_B HDMI_SDADDC_B HDMI_PLUG_B20 3.4.4 COM1 & DVI-I Connectors:CN7 3.4.4.1 COM1 (Top);...
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CT-XHW0X Intel 4th Gen Core Processor i7/i5/i3/Celeron Industrial Mini-ITX MB 3.4.4.1.2 RS-422 Signal Signal TXD-, Transmit Data RXD+, Receive Data TXD+, Transmit Data RXD-, Receive Data 3.4.4.1.3 RS-485 Connector Signal Signal TXD-, Transmit Data RXD+, Receive Data TXD+, Transmit Data RXD-, Receive Data 3.4.4.2 DVI-I (Bottom)
CT-XHW0X Intel 4th Gen Core Processor i7/i5/i3/Celeron Industrial Mini-ITX MB 3.4.5 RJ-45 LAN & USB 3.0 Connectors: CN14/CN15 3.4.5.1 RJ-45 (Top) Signal MDI0+ MDI0- MDI1+ MDI2+ MDI2- MDI1- MDI3+ MDI3- LED A Status LED B Status Yellow Active Speed 10...
Direct Media Interface (DMI), Digital Display Interface (DDI) and PCI Express. 4.2 BIOS The AMI uEFI BIOS, 8MB SPI Flash Rom is used in the CT-XHW0X module. 4.3 System Memory The Integrated Memory Controller (IMC) of the processor supports DDR3/DDR3L protocols with two independent, 64-bit wide channels.
DisplayPort, HDMI, LVDS or DVI, and one dedicated Intel FDI Port for legacy VGA support on the PCH. The 3 displays configuration of the CT-XHW0X is one DP, one HDMI and one of the three: LVDS, DVI or VGA.
CT-XHW0X Intel 4th Gen Core Processor i7/i5/i3/Celeron Industrial Mini-ITX MB Signal Description Serial ATA or SAS transmits differential pairs. SATA_TX+ SATA_TX- Serial ATA or SAS receives differential pairs. SATA_RX+ SATA_RX- 4.8 PCI Express The processor contains one PCI Express controller that supports one external x16 PCI Express Graphics port.
CT-XHW0X Intel 4th Gen Core Processor i7/i5/i3/Celeron Industrial Mini-ITX MB Signal Description Gigabit Ethernet Controller 0: Media Dependent MDI[0:3]+ Interface Differential Pairs 0, 1, 2, 3. The MDI MDI[0:3]- can operate in 1000, 100 and 10 Mbit/sec modes. Some pairs are unused in some modes,...
GPIO index/data port. The index port is the base address +0 and the data port is the base address +1. To access the GPIO register, write index to the index port, and then read/write from/to data port. The configuration on CT-XHW0X is described as below. Index Port 0xA00...
CT-XHW0X Intel 4th Gen Core Processor i7/i5/i3/Celeron Industrial Mini-ITX MB Bit X = 1 means Output Mode 4.13.1.2.2 GPIO Output Data Select GPIO Output Data Register (Index port=0xA00, Data port=0xA01, Offset=0x89) Bit 7 Bit 6 Bit 5 Bit 4...
CT-XHW0X Intel 4th Gen Core Processor i7/i5/i3/Celeron Industrial Mini-ITX MB V. SYSTEM BIOS The system BIOS software is stored on EEPROM. The BIOS provides an interface to modify the configuration. When the battery is removed, all the parameters will be reset.
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CT-XHW0X Intel 4th Gen Core Processor i7/i5/i3/Celeron Industrial Mini-ITX MB System Date: MM/DD/YYYY System Time: HH:MM:SS Use Tab to switch between Date and Time elements. 37...
CT-XHW0X Intel 4th Gen Core Processor i7/i5/i3/Celeron Industrial Mini-ITX MB 5.2.2 CPU Configuration Enables or disables BIOS ACPI Auto Configuration. 40...
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CT-XHW0X Intel 4th Gen Core Processor i7/i5/i3/Celeron Industrial Mini-ITX MB Limit CPUID Maximum: Disabled for Windows XP. Execute Disable Bit: XP can prevent certain classes of malicious buffer overflow attacks when combined with a supporting OS (Windows Server 2003 SP1, Windows XP SP2, SusE Linux 9.2, RedHat Enterprise 3 Update 3.)
CT-XHW0X Intel 4th Gen Core Processor i7/i5/i3/Celeron Industrial Mini-ITX MB 5.2.3 SATA Configuration The BIOS automatically detects the presence of SATA device and the hardware installed in the SATA ports will be showed in the configuration. Each port can be enabled or disabled individually.
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CT-XHW0X Intel 4th Gen Core Processor i7/i5/i3/Celeron Industrial Mini-ITX MB SATA Mode Selection: Select the IDE, AHCI or RAID mode for SATA controller operations. Hot Plug: Designates this port as Hot Pluggable. SATA Device Type: Identify the SATA port is connected to Solid State Drive or Hard Disk Drive.
CT-XHW0X Intel 4th Gen Core Processor i7/i5/i3/Celeron Industrial Mini-ITX MB 5.2.5 AMT Configuration Enable or disable Intel® Active Management Technology BIOS Extension. Note: iAMT H/W is always enabled. This option just controls the BIOS extension execution. If enabled, this requires additional firmware in the SPI device 46...
CT-XHW0X Intel 4th Gen Core Processor i7/i5/i3/Celeron Industrial Mini-ITX MB 5.2.6 USB Configuration Legacy USB Support: AUTO option disables legacy support if no USB devices are connected. DISABLE option will keep USB devices available only for EFI applications. EHCI Hand-off: This is a workaround for OSes without EHCI hand-off support.
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CT-XHW0X Intel 4th Gen Core Processor i7/i5/i3/Celeron Industrial Mini-ITX MB 5.3.1.1 PCI Express Configuration Each PCI Express Port from 1 to 8 can be setup except Port 2, which is assigned to Lan. 58...
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CT-XHW0X Intel 4th Gen Core Processor i7/i5/i3/Celeron Industrial Mini-ITX MB 5.3.1.1.1 PCI Express Root Port 3.3.12.4 Each PCI Express Root Port can be enabled or disabled individually. ASPM: Set the ASPM level Force L0s – Force all links to L0s State AUTO –...
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CT-XHW0X Intel 4th Gen Core Processor i7/i5/i3/Celeron Industrial Mini-ITX MB 5.3.1.2 USB Configuration 60...
CT-XHW0X Intel 4th Gen Core Processor i7/i5/i3/Celeron Industrial Mini-ITX MB 5.4 Boot Boot Configuration: Number of seconds to wait for setup activation key. 65535 (0xFFFF) means indefinite waiting. Bootup NumLock State: Select the keyboard NumLock state. Fast Boot: Enables or disables boot with initialization of a minimal set of devices required to launch active boot option.
CT-XHW0X Intel 4th Gen Core Processor i7/i5/i3/Celeron Industrial Mini-ITX MB 5.4.1 CSM16 Parameters OpROM execution, boot options filter, etc. GateA20 Active: [Upon Request] – GA20 can be disabled using BIOS services. [Always] – do not allow disabling GA20; this option is useful wen any RT code is executed above 1MB.
CT-XHW0X Intel 4th Gen Core Processor i7/i5/i3/Celeron Industrial Mini-ITX MB 5.4.2 CSM Parameters OpROM execution, boot options filter, etc. Launch CSM: This option controls if CSM will be launched always or never. Boot option filer: This option controls what devices system can boot to [UEFI and Legacy], [Legacy only] or [UEFI only]. ...
CT-XHW0X Intel 4th Gen Core Processor i7/i5/i3/Celeron Industrial Mini-ITX MB 5.5 Security Administrator’s and User’s passwords could be set. If ONLY the Administrator’s password is set, then this only limits access to Setup and is only asked for when entering Setup. If ONLY the User’s password is set, then this is a power on password and must be entered to boot or enter Setup.
CT-XHW0X Intel 4th Gen Core Processor i7/i5/i3/Celeron Industrial Mini-ITX MB 5.6 Save and Exit Save Changes and Exit: Exit system setup after saving the changes. Discard Changes and Exit: Exit system setup without saving any changes. Save Changes and Reset: Reset the system after saving the changes.
CT-XHW0X Intel 4th Gen Core Processor i7/i5/i3/Celeron Industrial Mini-ITX MB VI. Address Map 6.1 I/O Port Address Map The assignment of the I/O port addresses for the XHW0X under Windows® 7 Ultimate/64bit are shown below. 73...
CT-XHW0X Intel 4th Gen Core Processor i7/i5/i3/Celeron Industrial Mini-ITX MB 6.2 Interrupt Controller (IRQ) Map The interrupt controller map for the CT-HXW01 under Windows® 7 Ultimate/64bit are as shown below. 75...
CT-XHW0X Intel 4th Gen Core Processor i7/i5/i3/Celeron Industrial Mini-ITX MB 6.3 Memory Map The memory map of DRAM for the CT-HXW01 under Windows® 7 Ultimate/64bit are shown below. 78...
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