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conga-IA3 Thin Mini-ITX SBC

Detailed Description Of The congatec Thin Mini-ITX Based On 3rd Generation Intel Atom/Celeron SoC

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Page 1: ...conga IA3 Thin Mini ITX SBC Detailed Description Of The congatec Thin Mini ITX Based On 3rd Generation Intel Atom Celeron SoC User s Guide Revision 1 0...

Page 2: ...on Date yyyy mm dd Author Changes 0 1 2015 04 29 AEM Preliminary release 1 0 2016 01 19 AEM Corrected the AMI Aptio BIOS version in section 2 1 Feature List Added note about using symmetrical memory m...

Page 3: ...n the product and the user s guide 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 i...

Page 4: ...s call attention to important information that should be observed Connector Type Describes the connector used on the Single Board Computer Copyright Notice Copyright 2015 congatec AG All rights reserv...

Page 5: ...at congatec s option and expense Customer will obtain a Return Material Authorization RMA number from congatec AG prior to returning the non conforming product freight prepaid congatec AG will pay for...

Page 6: ...t is a non volatile memory card format developed for use in portable devices USB Universal Serial Bus SATA Serial AT Attachment serial interface standard for hard disks HDA High Definition Audio S PDI...

Page 7: ...nel HD Audio 25 5 4 Communication Bus 26 5 4 1 SMBus 26 5 4 2 I C Bus 26 5 4 3 SPI Bus 26 5 5 Universal Serial Bus USB 27 5 5 1 Rear USB Connectors 27 5 5 2 Internal USB Connectors 28 5 6 Ethernet 10...

Page 8: ...tion Settings Out of Band Management Submenu 63 8 4 11 CPU Configuration Submenu 63 8 4 11 1 Socket 0 CPU Information Submenu 64 8 4 11 2 CPU Thermal Configuration Submenu 64 8 4 12 PPM Configuration...

Page 9: ...s are equipped with various interfaces such as PCI Express SATA USB 2 0 3 0 Ethernet Displays and Audio 1 2 conga IA3 The conga IA3 is a Single Board Computer designed based on the Thin Mini ITX speci...

Page 10: ...HD Graphics GT1 Intel HD Graphics GT1 Graphics Base Burst Freq 542 792 MHz 533 667 MHz 688 854 MHz 313 854 MHz VGA No No No No LVDS Single Dual 18 24bit Single Dual 18 24bit Single Dual 18 24bit Singl...

Page 11: ...emale connector and 2x10 pin Housing cab ThinMini ITX LVDS Open End 14000125 ACES 40 pin LVDS cable with open end cab ThinMini ITX BKLT 14000127 CHYAO SHIUNN 8 pin Backlight cable with open end cab Th...

Page 12: ...DP ports Hot Plug detect support 1x VGA 1x Audio OUT MIC 2x Gigabit Ethernet without AMT 2x USB 2 0 2x USB 3 0 1x DC IN Onboard I O Connectors 1x LVDS top side 1x eDP interface bottom side 1x Backligh...

Page 13: ...Although the conga IA3 might boot up with asymmetrical memory modules this may however cause memory errors or instabilities Therefore use only symmetrical DDR3L memory modules on the conga IA3 and als...

Page 14: ...t approximately 20mm 2 4 Environmental Specifications Temperature Operation 0 to 60 C Storage 20 to 80 C Humidity Operation 10 to 90 Storage 5 to 95 Note The above operating temperatures must be stric...

Page 15: ...211 USB Hub USB Hub i211 eDP to LVDS Ethernet Ethernet DP VGA Audio OUT MIC Buzzer Internal speaker Digital Mic USB2 0 SPI eDP 2 LVDS DDI1 DDI0 VGA 2x24 bit LVDS 2x USB3 0 2x USB2 0 USB3 0 SATA0 SATA1...

Page 16: ...ve to provide sufficient air flow to each of the components to ensure the specified operating temperature of the conga IA3 is maintained congatec AG offers two cooling possibilities for the conga IA3...

Page 17: ...start with one screw and then slightly tighten the other screws in a crossover pattern All the while keep holding the cooling adapter straight with one hand Now you can fully tighten the screws Once...

Page 18: ...ution screws is 0 6 Nm Mechanical system assembly mounting shall follow the valid DIN IS0 specifications Caution When using the heatspreader in a high shock and or vibration environment congatec recom...

Page 19: ...er supply connected to the DC power jack on the rear I O This power input protects against polarity reversal and over under voltage Connector X43 Pinout Description Pin Function Inner Shell 12 24V Out...

Page 20: ...mating connector for X44 is the Molex 39 01 2045 Note The default conga IA3 BIOS configuration enables the system to boot up immediately an external is supplied Caution The absolute maximum rating of...

Page 21: ...oing so may damage the system or affect system reliability 5 1 3 1 Optional SBM3 Signal Connector As mentioned above if you need the optional SBM battery power connector X50 then you need in addition...

Page 22: ...ce 5 1 5 Power Status LEDs The conga IA3 provides two LED signals FP_LED1 and P_LED2 on pins 2 and 4 of the front panel connector X38 The signals indicate the different power states of the conga IA3 P...

Page 23: ...the manufacturer s instructions 5 3 Audio Interfaces The conga IA3 provides audio connectors both internally and on the rear side The internal audio connectors are stereo speaker digital microphone S...

Page 24: ...internally 5 3 2 1 Stereo Speaker Header The first analog line input channels left and right of the Realtek ALC888S HDA audio codec are routed via a TPA2012D2 amplifier to internal stereo speaker conn...

Page 25: ...Panel HD Audio The front panel HD audio LINE2 and MIC2 signals of the Realtek ALC888S HDA audio codec are routed to connector X16 The pinout description of the connector is shown below Front Panel HD...

Page 26: ...ignals These signals are available in different locations on the conga IA3 including the feature connector X34 described in section 6 13 of this document 5 4 3 SPI Bus The SPI signals are connected to...

Page 27: ...ve B3 Data Hi speed differential transceiver positive A4 GND Ground B4 GND Ground USB 3 0 Connectors X15 Pinout Descriptions Lower Port Upper Port Pin Signal Description Pin Signal Description 1 5V 5V...

Page 28: ...ver negative 4 Data3 Hi speed differential transceiver negative 5 Data2 Hi speed differential transceiver positive 6 Data3 Hi speed differential transceiver positive 7 GND Ground 8 GND Ground 9 No Pin...

Page 29: ...ct congatec technical solution department 5 6 Ethernet 10 100 1000 The conga IA3 provides two Gigabit Ethernet ports connectors X57 and X58 on the rear side The two Gigabit Ethernet interfaces are sup...

Page 30: ...connector X38 is lit when there is activity on any of the SATA interfaces Connectors CN1 CN2 Pinout Description Pin Signal 1 GND 2 TX 3 TX 4 GND 5 RX 6 RX 7 GND Connector Type CN1 CN2 Standard SATA Co...

Page 31: ...r Type X8 15 Pos SATA Connector Note The voltage rails 3 3V 5V and 12V have maximum current of 2 amps each 5 7 3 Mini SATA The mini SATA connector X6 on the conga IA3 is used to connect mSATA devices...

Page 32: ...SMB_DATA 33 A 34 GND 35 GND 36 Reserved 37 GND 38 Reserved 39 3 3V 40 GND 41 3 3V 42 N C 43 Card_Type_Recognition 44 N C 45 N C 46 N C 47 N C 48 1 5V 49 N C 50 GND 51 N C 52 3 3Vaux 53 GND 54 GND Con...

Page 33: ...19 GND 10 DDI_TX3 20 3 3V 5 8 2 LVDS The conga IA3 offers LVDS interface on connector X32 a standard 40 pin LVDS connector The LVDS signals are sourced from the SoC s eDP stream via a multiplexer Depe...

Page 34: ...32 eDP_LVDS_BKLT_EN 13 LVDS_B1 33 eDP_LVDS_BKLT_CTRL 14 LVDS_B1 34 LVDS_B_CLK 15 LVDS_B0 35 LVDS_B_CLK 16 LVDS_B0 36 BKLT_PWR 17 EDID_GND 37 BKLT_PWR 18 LCD_VCC 38 BKLT_PWR 19 LCD_VCC 39 N C 20 LCD_V...

Page 35: ...lt configured in the BIOS setup to route the eDP signals to the eDP to LVDS bridge To route eDP signals to connector X28 change the default BIOS setup Connector X28 Pinout Description Pin Signal Pin S...

Page 36: ...escription Pin Signal Name Description 1 eDP_LVDS_BKLT_EN Backlight enable 2 eDP_LVDS_BKLT_CTRL Backlight control 3 BKLT_PWR Backlight inverter power 4 BKLT_PWR Backlight inverter power 5 GND Backligh...

Page 37: ...12V Connector X29 Pinout Description Pin Signal Name 1 No Pin 2 3 3V 3 12V 4 Selected LCD Power 5 No Pin 6 5V Connector X30 Pinout Description Pin Signal Name 1 No Pin 2 NC 3 12V 4 Selected Backlight...

Page 38: ...ector X6 Th 5 9 1 x1 PCIe Slot The conga IA3 offers one PCIe x1 slot on connector X9 The SoC s PCIe lane 0 signals are routed to connector X9 x1 PCIe slot via a multiplexer and to connector X6 mini PC...

Page 39: ...mPCIe slot 5 9 2 Mini PCIe Half Size The conga IA3 is equipped with a PCI Express Mini Card socket PCI Express Mini Card is a unique small size form factor optimized for mobile computing platforms equ...

Page 40: ...W_DISABLE 21 GND 22 PERST 23 PERn0 24 3 3Vaux 25 PERp0 26 GND 27 GND 28 1 5V 29 GND 30 SMB_CLK 31 PETn0 32 SMB_DATA 33 PETp0 34 GND 35 GND 36 USB_D 37 GND 38 USB_D 39 3 3Vaux 40 GND 41 3 3Vaux 42 N C...

Page 41: ...ttached to the mPCIe mSATA slot connector X6 the SoC detects the connected device via the signal detect pin pin 43 sets the communication mode to PCIe or SATA and automatically switches the PCIe SATA...

Page 42: ...ors PCIe x1 Slot MIni PCIe Mini SATA Slot Mini PCIe Slot PCIe Lane0 USB Signals PCIe Lane 1 MUX MUX USB Signals SATA Signals X9 NOTE The PCIe x1 Slot X9 will not function if you insert an mPCIe card i...

Page 43: ...ted to this header See section 5 1 5 Power Status LED for the possible states and corresponding activity of the LEDs Front Panel Connector X38 Pinout Description Pin Function Description 1 HDD_POWER_L...

Page 44: ...controller plays an important role for most of the congatec BIOS features It fully isolates some of the embedded features such as system monitoring or the I C bus from the x86 core architecture which...

Page 45: ...ler that provides additional interfaces such as two serial interfaces optional ccTALK GPOs 4 wire CPU and system fans The Winbond W83627DHG Super I O controller is connected to the LPC Bus of the Inte...

Page 46: ...ystem fans are routed to 4 pin connectors X35 and X37 respectively Use jumper X33 to select the CPU fan voltage and jumper X36 to select the system fan voltage The following tables describe the pinout...

Page 47: ...ings is no longer necessary because customers can easily perform this configuration by themselves using the congatec system utility CGUTIL See congatec application note AN8_Create_OEM_Default_Map pdf...

Page 48: ...ace In order to facilitate the development of battery powered mobile systems based on embedded modules congatec AG has defined an interface for the exchange of data between a CPU module using an ACPI...

Page 49: ...e congatec embedded BIOS on the module See section 1 1 of the CGOS API software developers guide which is available on the congatec website 6 9 GPIOs The conga IA3 SBC provides eight General Purpose I...

Page 50: ...ERIRQ 9 LPC_CLK 25MHz 10 BUF_PLT_RST 11 SMB_DATA 12 SMB_CLK 13 SMB_ALERT 14 GND 15 TX_CGBC 16 RX_CGBC 17 GPO0 18 GPO1 19 GPO2 20 GPO3 21 GPO4 22 GPO5 23 GPO6 24 GPO7 25 GPI0 26 GPI1 27 GPI2 28 GPI3 29...

Page 51: ...80 HALF MINI CARD DDR MODULE 67 8x30mm DDR MODULE 67 8x30mm HALF MINI CARD 30 00x26 80 FULL MINI CARD 163 83 170 156 55 78 2 114 76 132 35 53 21 63 76 20 06 44 26 6 35 12 27 33 02 27 61 70 59 121 59 1...

Page 52: ...vice that should be used or an option to enter the BIOS setup program 8 2 Setup Menu and Navigation The congatec BIOS setup screen is composed of the menu bar left frame and right frame The menu bar i...

Page 53: ...in BIOS Version No option Displays the main BIOS version OEM BIOS Version No option Displays the additional OEM BIOS version Build Date No option Displays the date the BIOS was built Product Revision...

Page 54: ...Watchdog Graphics Hardware Health Monitoring Trusted Computing RTC Wake Reserve Legacy Interrupt ACPI Super IO Intel R Smart Connect Technology Serial Port Console Redirection CPU Configuration PPM C...

Page 55: ...re the operating system starts booting If set to One time Trigger the watchdog will be disabled after the first trigger If set to Single Event every stage will be executed only once then the watchdog...

Page 56: ...og event Watchdog ACPI Event Shutdown Restart Select the operating system event that is initiated by the watchdog ACPI event These options perform a critical but orderly operating system shutdown or r...

Page 57: ...x1200 2x24 00Dh Customized EDID 1 Customized EDID 2 Customized EDID 3 Select a predefined LFP type or choose Auto to let the BIOS automatically detect and configure the attached LVDS panel Auto detect...

Page 58: ...temperature in C DIMM DXP No option Displays the actual module DIMM DXP Temperature in C 3 3V Standard No option Displays the actual voltage of the 3 3V standard power supply 5V Standby No option Dis...

Page 59: ...ing POST to perform selected operation 8 4 5 RTC Wake Submenu Feature Options Description Wake System At Fixed Time Disabled Enabled Enable system to wake from S5 using RTC alarm Wake up hour Specify...

Page 60: ...sources LID Support Disabled Enabled Configure COM Express LID Signal to act as a ACPI lid Sleep Button Support Disabled Enabled Configure COM Express SLEEP Signal to act as a ACPI sleep button 8 4 8...

Page 61: ...bmenu Feature Options Description ISCT Support Disabled Enabled Enable or disable Intel R Smart Connection Support When this setup node is set to Disabled all the other nodes will not be visible ISCT...

Page 62: ...gs COM0 Submenu Feature Options Description Terminal Type VT100 VT100 VT UTF8 ANSI Select terminal type Baudrate 9600 19200 38400 57600 115200 Select baud rate Data Bits 7 8 Set number of data bits Pa...

Page 63: ...n Displays 64 bit support information Limit CPUID Maximum Disabled Enabled When enabled the processor limits the maximum CPUID input value to 03h when queried even if the processor supports a higher C...

Page 64: ...el VT x Technology support information L1 Data Cache No option Displays the Socket L1 data cache information L1 Code Cache No option Displays the Socket L1 code cache information L2 Cache No option Di...

Page 65: ...3 C 55 C 47 C 39 C 31 C 23 C 15 C Temperature of the ACPI critical Trip Point in which the OS will shut the system off Passive Trip Point 110 C 105 C 100 C 95 C 90 C 87 C 85 C 79 C 71 C 63 C 55 C 47 C...

Page 66: ...Plug Disabled Enabled Select hot plug support for SATA Port 0 Not possible in Native IDE mode Serial ATA Port 1 Enabled Disabled Enable or disable the SATA Port 1 SATA Port 1 Hot Plug Disabled Enabled...

Page 67: ...isabled Enable DDR50 Support for SD Card 8 4 17 PCI Subsystem Setting Submenu Feature Options Description PCI Bus Driver Version PCI Latency Timer 32 64 96 128 160 192 224 248 PCI Bus Clocks Select va...

Page 68: ...or allow system BIOS to select the value ASPM Disabled Auto Forced L0s PCI Express Active State Power Management settings Extended Synch Disabled Enabled If enabled the generation of extended PCI Expr...

Page 69: ...iated LTR Mechanism Enable Disabled Enabled If supported by hardware and set to Enabled this enables the Latency Tolerance Reporting LTR Mechanism End End TLP Prefix Blocking Disabled Enabled If suppo...

Page 70: ...Configure legacy Gate A behavior Option ROM Messages Force BIOS Keep Current Enable Option ROM message INT19 Trap Response Immediate Postponed Define BIOS reaction on INT19 trapping by Option ROM Imm...

Page 71: ...hange should be claimed by EHCI OS driver USB Mass Storage Driver Support Disabled Enabled Enable Mass Storage Driver Support Device Reset Timeout 10 sec 20 sec 30 sec 40 sec USB legacy mass storage d...

Page 72: ...d Mode Enabled Disabled Enable Anti Theft Suspend Mode 8 4 25 Intel R Ethernet Connection I210 Submenu At this submenu additionally to its title the MAC address is displayed at the end of the title Fe...

Page 73: ...eature Options Description Controller Information No option Provides Health Status of the controller 8 5 Chipset Setup Select the Boot tab from the setup menu to enter the Boot setup screen 8 5 1 Nort...

Page 74: ...ed Enable BIOS SPI Region read write protection Isolate SMBus Segments Never During POST Always Allows isolating the off module external SMBus segment from the on module SMBus segment This can be a wo...

Page 75: ...is disabled see the USB3 0 Support in BIOS item Auto USB ports are initially set to operate in USB2 0 Mode and the USB3 0 OS driver if available will switch them USB3 0 mode If USB3 0 OS driver is no...

Page 76: ...7 Default 0 Extra bus reserved 0 7 for bridges behind this root bridge Reserved Memory 1 20 Default 10 Reserved memory range for this root bridge Prefetchable Memory 1 20 Default 10 Prefetchable memor...

Page 77: ...Note Only works with an ATX type power supply AT Shutdown Mode System Reboot Hot S5 Determines the behavior of an AT powered system after a shutdown System Off Mode G3 Mech Off S5 Soft Off Define sys...

Page 78: ...stalled 8 8 Save Exit Menu Select the Save Exit tab from the setup menu to enter the Save Exit setup screen You can display a Save Exit screen option by highlighting it using the Arrow keys Feature De...

Page 79: ...er for a BIOS ROM file 1 is the so called feature number and xx is the major and minor revision number The binary size of IA32 and IC32 BIOS is 8MB 9 1 Supported Flash Devices The conga IA3 supports t...

Page 80: ...eveloper 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 A...

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