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Functional Description
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20G020-00 E5 – 2014-01-21
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Functional Description
The following describes the individual functions of the board and their
configuration on the board. There is no detailed description of the individual
controller chips and the CPU. They can be obtained from the data sheets or data
books of the semiconductor manufacturer concerned (
Chapter 6.1 Literature and
Web Resources on page 88
).
2.1
Power Supply
The G20 board is supplied with +12V only. The voltage range is +9 V up to +16 V
(absolute maximum voltage). The voltage is monitored within these borders.
The G20 board can optionally be supplied with +5V (+5%/-3%) standby voltage.
2.2
Board Supervision
The G20 provides an intelligent board management controller (BMC) with the
following main features:
• Board power sequencing control
• Voltage supervision
• System watchdog
• Software reset functionality
• Error state logging
• Power mode settings
• SMBus communication with main CPU
The watchdog device monitors the board on operating system level. If enabled, the
watchdog must be triggered by application software. If the trigger is overdue, the
watchdog initiates a board reset and this way can put the system back into operation
when the software hangs.
The watchdog uses a configurable time interval or is disabled. Settings are made
through BIOS or via an MEN software driver.
MEN provides a dedicated software driver for the board controller. For a detailed
description of the functionality of the driver software please refer to the drivers’
documentation.
You can find any driver software and documentation available for download on
MEN’s
website
.