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ALIX system board

8

5/5/2010

ALIX.3 series

Configuration

1

 LAN / 2 miniPCI

Power supply

7  to  20V  DC,  about  2.5  to  3.5W  at  Linux  idle,  peak  about  5W  without
miniPCI cards and USB devices. Suggest a 18V / 15W supply. Center pin =
positive, sleeve = ground, 2.1 mm diameter.

Temperature range

0 to 50°C.

Dimensions

100 x 160 mm

Summary of Contents for ALIX.2 Series

Page 1: ...PC Engines ALIX 2 ALIX 3 ALIX 6 series system boards ...

Page 2: ...rd 2 5 5 2010 2007 2009 PC Engines GmbH All rights reserved PC Engines GmbH www pcengines ch tinyBIOS and PC Engines are trademarks of PC Engines GmbH All other marks and brands are property of their respective owners ...

Page 3: ...M options 6 ALIX 2 series 7 ALIX 3 series 8 ALIX 6 series 9 Setup options 10 BIOS upgrade 11 PXE boot 11 Power over Ethernet 11 Hardware compatibility 11 High power radio cards 12 Operating system compatibility 12 FreeBSD 12 FreeDOS MS DOS 5 0 12 Linux 12 NetBSD 12 OpenBSD 12 ALIX block diagram 13 ALIX connector pinouts 13 Status LEDs 20 Mode switch 20 Low level programming 20 BIOS POST codes 21 ...

Page 4: ...ce to radio or television reception which can be determined by turning the equipment off and on the user is encouraged to correct the interference by one or more of the following measures Reorient or relocate the receiving antenna Increase the separation between the equipment and receiver Connect the equipment to an outlet on a circuit different from that to which the receiver is connected Consult...

Page 5: ...s cards Please contact PC Engines for assistance and documentation For satisfactory resistance to electrostatic discharge events ESD the ALIX board should be grounded e g through the mounting holes or the serial port connector The USB port on ALIX 2B ALIX 3B boards is sensitive to ESD events spurious overcurrent events may be detected in this version Recycling disposal Do not discard electronic pr...

Page 6: ...dwidth 512 KB flash for PC Engines tinyBIOS CompactFlash optional 44 pin IDE header for user s operating system and application 7 to 18V absolute maximum DC supply through DC jack or passive power over Ethernet 1 serial port DB9 male RXD TXD only 2 USB 2 0 ports optional Header for LPC bus use for flash recovery or I O expansion OEM options The following options can be configured for larger orders...

Page 7: ...iniPCI or 3 LAN 1 miniPCI Power supply 7 to 20V DC about 3 to 4W at Linux idle peak about 6W without miniPCI cards and USB devices Suggest a 18V 15W supply Center pin positive sleeve ground 2 1 mm diameter Temperature range 0 to 50 C Dimensions 6 x 6 152 4 x 152 4 mm ...

Page 8: ...ion 1 LAN 2 miniPCI Power supply 7 to 20V DC about 2 5 to 3 5W at Linux idle peak about 5W without miniPCI cards and USB devices Suggest a 18V 15W supply Center pin positive sleeve ground 2 1 mm diameter Temperature range 0 to 50 C Dimensions 100 x 160 mm ...

Page 9: ...I express USB only no PCI Express support Power supply 7 to 20V DC about 3 to 4W at Linux idle peak about 6W without miniPCI cards and USB devices Suggest a 18V 15W supply Center pin positive sleeve ground 2 1 mm diameter Temperature range 0 to 50 C Dimensions 6 x 6 152 4 x 152 4 mm ...

Page 10: ...e to get the boot menu Setup options To enter setup type S during the memory test You should see something like the following PC Engines ALIX 2 v0 98j 640 KB Base Memory 261120 KB Extended Memory 01F0 Master 848A CF 128MB Phys C H S 1002 8 32 Log C H S 1002 8 32 BIOS setup 9 9600 baud 2 19200 baud 3 38400 baud 5 57600 baud 1 115200 baud C CHS mode L LBA mode W HDD wait V HDD slave U UDMA enable M ...

Page 11: ...the board can be revived using an LPC adapter available from PC Engines PXE boot PXE boot can be activated either through the E option in setup always or by pressing N during memory test one time PC Engines cannot provide technical support for the PXE module too many possible failure points Intel Via PXE module DHCP server TFTP server boot image etc To avoid premature link failure on cold start pl...

Page 12: ...ormance include support for AMD Geode LX CS5536 and use a current driver for the Via VT6105M LAN controller which supports TCP IP checksumming and byte aligned transmit buffers unlike earlier Via Rhine parts Reboot is best triggered by port 92h FreeBSD Current versions of FreeBSD may panic due to issues in the EHCI configuration Disable EHCI driver if problems appear FreeDOS MS DOS 5 0 Tested ok b...

Page 13: ...carrier detect input not available on CS5536 2 RXD receive data input 3 TXD transmit data output 4 DTR data terminal ready output always driven active 5 GND ground 6 DSR data set ready input not available on CS5536 7 RTS ready to send output always driven active 8 CTS clear to send input not available on CS5536 9 RI ring indicator input not available on CS5536 J14 J17 J19 COM1 serial port 3 3V lev...

Page 14: ...ith integrated magnetics are used This port implements a passive power over Ethernet scheme over the two unused pairs Do not exceed 20V as the TVS protection diode may start clamping above this voltage 1 TX transmit positive 2 TX transmit negative 3 RX receive positive 4 VIN power supply nominal 7 to 20V 5 VIN 6 RX receive negative 7 GND power return 8 GND J1 J2 J1 Ethernet ports 2 3 RJ45 connecto...

Page 15: ...see schematic for pinout J9 J9 IDE header build option IDE cannot be supported by alix 2 0 alix 2 1 boards 5V supply too weak IDE can be added to alix 2c2 alix 2c3 alix 6 2 boards by adding the header and a 470 ohm resistor in location R50 Please upgrade to the latest BIOS 1 HDRST IDE reset 2 GND ground 3 HDD7 IDE data 7 4 HDD8 IDE data 8 5 HDD6 IDE data 6 6 HDD9 IDE data 9 7 HDD5 IDE data 5 8 HDD...

Page 16: ... J15 J10 CompactFlash The CompactFlash card is used in True IDE mode Hot insertion is not supported please power off the unit before inserting a CF card 1 GND ground 2 D3 IDE data 3 D4 IDE data 4 D5 IDE data 5 D6 IDE data 6 D7 IDE data 7 CS0 IDE decode 1F0 1F7 8 A10 ground 9 ATASEL ground to select true IDE mode 10 A9 ground 11 A8 ground 12 A7 ground 13 VCC 3 3V power supply 14 A6 ground 15 A5 gro...

Page 17: ... org J11 J6 J11 LPC expansion The LPC port is used in the factory to connect an alternate flash BIOS to start the board when the on board flash is corrupted or blank Use PC Engines adapter LPC 1A for this purpose if needed The LCP port can also be used to connect a super I O device Unlike SC1100 based WRAP boards this port cannot be reprogrammed as GPIO pins Contact PC Engines for sample schematic...

Page 18: ...on J13 Microphone in build option Only populated on alix 3 3 version Starting with alix 3d3 this connector can also be configured to connect to line in Please see schematics for details parts marked with are not populated J11 VGA build option Only populated on alix 3 3 version 1 VGAR VGA red 2 VGAG VGA green 3 VGAB VGA blue 4 nc no connect 5 GND ground 6 GND ground 7 GND ground 8 GND ground 9 USBV...

Page 19: ...cards should work Wifi cards will not See the schematics for detailed pinout Please note that LED3 is driven by the miniPCI express card by default GPIO27 controls the W_DIS radio inhibit signal instead Drive low 0 to inhibit high 1 to enable the miniPCI express radio Change configuration resistors R140 R142 R143 if different behavior is desired The board has two SIM sockets J17 is primary accesse...

Page 20: ...r read modify write operations and the locking issues they entail For example to turn off LED1 high write 0000 0040h to port 06100h To turn on LED1 low write 0040 0000h Multiple port bits can be changed at the same time On ALIX 6 please note that LED3 is driven by the miniPCI express card by default GPIO27 controls the W_DIS radio inhibit signal instead Drive low 0 to inhibit high 1 to enable the ...

Page 21: ...h 8254 test 0d speed dependent chipset regs 0e test 8237 DMA 0f test DMA page registers 10 test 8254 registers 11 test keyboard controller 12 init timer DMA 8259 13 test 8259 mask registers 14 test low 640KB 15 init vectors 16 PCI plug play 17 shadow video BIOS 18 look for VGA BIOS 19 sign on prompt 1a second keyboard test 1b extended memory test 1c enable interrupts 1d test init RTC 1e init flopp...

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