Lippert Cool SpaceRunner-LX800, Technical Manual

Page 1: ... 104P CSR LX800 R1V5 doc Revision 1 5 March 09 LiPPERT Embedded Computers GmbH Hans Thoma Str 11 D 68163 Mannheim http www lippertembedded com Cool SpaceRunner LX800 PC 104 Plus CPU Board Technical Manual ...

Page 2: ...out notice Trademarks MS DOS Windows Windows 95 Windows 98 Windows NT and Windows XP are trademarks of Microsoft Corporation PS 2 is a trademark of International Business Machines Inc Intel and Solid State Drive are trademarks of Intel Corporation Geode is a trademark of Advanced Micro Devices PC 104 is a registered trademark of PC 104 Consortium All other trademarks appearing in this document are...

Page 3: ... 4 Environmental Specifications 4 Mean Time Between Failures 4 1 4 Mechanical 5 2 Getting Started 6 2 1 Connector Locations 6 Top 6 Bottom 7 2 2 Jumper Locations 8 2 3 LED indicators 9 2 4 Hardware Setup 10 3 Module Description 11 3 1 Processor 11 3 2 Companion 12 3 3 Graphics Controller 13 SVGA Configuration 13 VGA Connector 14 LVDS Configuration 14 LVDS Connector 15 Backlight Connector 15 Displa...

Page 4: ...rial Ports 22 COM1 2 Connector 22 RS485 Termination Jumpers 23 3 11 Parallel Port LPT1 23 LPT1 Connector 24 3 12 Watchdog 24 3 13 LEMT functions 24 3 14 Speaker 25 3 15 External Power Button 25 3 16 Reset In Signal 26 3 17 PC 104 Plus Bus Interface 26 3 18 PC 104 Bus Interface 28 PC 104 Bus Connector 28 4 Using the Module 29 4 1 BIOS 29 Configuring the XpressROM BIOS 29 Trouble Shooting BIOS Setti...

Page 5: ...Maps 41 5 1 Memory Address Map 41 5 2 I O Address Map 42 5 3 Interrupts 43 5 4 DMA Channels 43 5 5 PC 104 Bus Address Space 44 Appendix A Contact Information A Appendix B Additional Information B Appendix C Getting Help C Appendix D Revision History D ...

Page 6: ...IO General Purpose Input Output HDD Hard Disk Drive I C Inter Integrated Circuit IP Internet Protocol ISA Industry Standard Architecture LCD Liquid Crystal Display LEMT LiPPERT Enhanced Management Technology LED Light Emitting Diode LPC Low Pin Count LVDS Low Voltage Differential Signaling MAC Media Access Control MMU Memory Management Unit PCI Peripheral Component Interconnect PHY Physical Interf...

Page 7: ...nection of hard disk or CD drives Applications that require non moving storage can use the integrated Solid State Drive There is Solid State Drive SSD integrated which is connected to the ATA controller System expansion can easily be realized over PC 104 PC 104 Plus and I C bus connectors The Cool SpaceRunner LX800 is powered by a 5V only supply and supports ACPI advanced power management and PCI ...

Page 8: ...DC 10 2 54 mm VGA IDC 10 2 54 mm LVDS DF14 2 x 10 pin 1 25 mm Backlight DF13 8 pin 1 25 mm EIDE IDC 44 2 00 mm PC 104 Plus USB0 Ethernet1 IDC 10 2 54 mm LPT Parallel IDC 26 2 54 mm PS 2 MS KB MISC IDC 10 2 54 mm SMB SPI ETH Intel 82551IT CSR LX800 PC 104 Diagram rev1v2 10072008CS COM2 RS232 485 IDC 10 2 54 mm Line Driver LTC1334 PC 104 PS 2 EIDE SMC UPD78F0511GA FWH DF13 10 pin 1 25 mm LPC USB1 2 ...

Page 9: ...ldCap EIDE 3x COM LPT EPP EPC PS 2 Keyboard PS 2 Mouse WDOG SMC PC 104 bus PC 104 bus VGA controller and LVDS Interface Fast Ethernet 100 10BaseT EIDE 2 GB SSD Operating temp range 40 C 85 C Cable Sets and Accessories There are some options offered for the Cool SpaceRunner LX800 Order number Description 863 0014 10 Adapter Cable Set Power PS 2 keyboard and mouse Ethernet and USB VGA CRT 3x USB COM...

Page 10: ...n 40 85 C extended version Temperature change max 10K 30 minutes Humidity relative 10 90 non condensing Pressure 450 1100 hPa Non Operating Storage Transport Temperature range 40 85 C Temperature change max 10K 30 minutes Humidity relative 5 95 non condensing Pressure 450 1100 hPa Mean Time Between Failures MTBF at 25 C 294 173 hours With that tolerance it is not mentioned that all plugged devices...

Page 11: ...above PCB max 12 mm on bottom side above PCB Weight 100 g Mounting 4 mounting holes Note It is strongly recommend using plastic spacers instead of metal spacers to mount the board With metal spacers there is a possible danger to create a short circuit with the components located around the mounting holes This can damage the board TOP Pin1 Pin2 ...

Page 12: ...TME 104P CSR LX800 R1V5 doc Rev 1 5 6 44 2 Getting Started 2 1 Connector Locations Top The connectors pin 1 is marked RED COM1 COM2 LPT PC 104 Plus PC 104 PS 2 VGA USB1 2 3 ETH USB0 PWR LVDS Backlight ...

Page 13: ...TME 104P CSR LX800 R1V5 doc Rev 1 5 7 44 Bottom The connectors pin 1 is marked RED LPC PC 104 PC 104 Plus ...

Page 14: ...04P CSR LX800 R1V5 doc Rev 1 5 8 44 2 2 Jumper Locations Jumper LVDS and Backlight Power Supply Jumper COM1 termination Pin 1 Pin 3 Pin 2 Pin 4 Jumper COM2 termination Pin 1 Pin 3 Pin 2 Pin 4 Jumper Battery ...

Page 15: ...ion is established PM Power Mode Green LED is constantly lit if the boot process is complete and the board is running normally Red LED flashes when board goes in suspend to ram mode MAIN Green LED lights up when Main Power is supplied SBY Green LED lights up when Standby Power is supplied LIVE The user programmable LED is on at startup when the board transfers data from the bios The signal is also...

Page 16: ... The 2 amps value is the minimum you should have for the standard peripherals mentioned If you want to use more and or others please plan your power budget first The system will not work if there is not enough supply current for all your devices The display shows the BIOS messages If you want to change the standard BIOS settings press the F1 key to enter the BIOS menu See chapter 4 1 for setup det...

Page 17: ...MHz enabling systems that only need to be passively cooled The x86 compatibility allow designers to focus on developing end products that efficiently meet consumer needs without being concerned with software porting or compatibility issues Coupled with the AMD Geode CS5536 companion device the combined chipset which operates at 1 9W typical at 433MHz and at 2 4W typical at 500MHz offers a complete...

Page 18: ...n IR infrared port supports all popular IR communication protocols The IR port is shared with one of two industry standard serial ports that can reach speeds of 115 2 kbps An LPC low pin count port is provided to facilitate connections to a Super I O should additional expansion such as a floppy drive be necessary and or to an LPC ROM for the system BIOS The hard disk controller is compatible to th...

Page 19: ...z 8 16 or 24 32 60 25 175 75 8 16 or 24 32 70 28 560 75 8 16 or 24 32 72 31 500 75 8 16 or 24 32 75 31 500 75 8 16 or 24 32 85 36 000 75 8 16 or 24 32 90 37 889 400 640 x 480 8 16 or 24 32 100 43 163 400 8 16 or 24 32 60 40 000 75 8 16 or 24 32 70 45 720 75 8 16 or 24 32 72 49 500 75 8 16 or 24 32 75 49 500 75 8 16 or 24 32 85 56 250 75 8 16 or 24 32 90 60 065 400 800 x 600 8 16 or 24 32 100 68 17...

Page 20: ... 16 or 24 32 75 297 000 400 1920x1440 8 16 or 24 32 85 341 349 400 VGA Connector Connector type IDC10 pin header 2 54 mm Pin Signal Pin Signal 1 Red 2 GND 3 Green 4 GND 5 Blue 6 GND 7 HSYNC 8 GND 9 VSYNC 10 GND LVDS Configuration The display options of LVDS are shown in the table Setting Possible Values Flat Panel Type LVDS Resolution 320x240 640x480 800x600 1024x768 1152x864 1280x1024 1600x1200 D...

Page 21: ...nnector Connector type Hirose DF13 2x 10 pin header Pin Signal Pin Signal 2 SW VDD 1 SW VDD 4 GND 3 GND 6 TX3 5 TX3 8 TXCLK 7 GND 10 GND 9 TXCLK 12 TX2 11 TX2 14 TX1 13 GND 16 GND 15 TX1 18 TX0 17 TX0 20 DDC DATA 19 DDC CLK Backlight Connector Connector type Hirose DF13 8 pin Pin Signal 1 12 Volts 2 12 Volts 3 5 Volts 4 5 Volts 5 EN 6 VCC 7 GND 8 GND That voltage can be selected using the jumper B...

Page 22: ...n the top side of the board the SSD is mounted It can be used instead of a hard disk Per default it is defined as master but that can be changed in BIOS The SSD manufactured by SST is built as a flash storage organized of Single Level Cells SLC It can be erased over 100 000 times without losing capacity The wear leveling feature can increase that number depending on the allocation of the disk spac...

Page 23: ...he processing of high level commands and operations which lowers CPU utilization Its architecture enables data to flow efficiently from the bus interface unit to the 3 KB Transmit and Receive FIFO s providing the perfect balance between the wire and system bus In addition multiple priority queues are provided to prevent data underruns and overruns The 82551IT includes both a MAC and PHY In also ha...

Page 24: ... Connector Connector type JST B15B EH A 15 pin Adapter cable available art no 862 0044 10 Pin Signal standard Signal 5V only 1 5V 5V 2 GND GND 3 5V 5V 4 GND GND 5 5V 5V 6 n c n c 7 GND GND 8 GND GND 9 n c n c 10 n c n c 11 GND GND 12 12V only for PC104 slot and backlight power supply n c 13 12V only for PC104 slot and backlight power supply n c 14 GND GND 15 12V only for PC104 slot n c Note The de...

Page 25: ...2 mm for 2 5 hard disks An adapter cable is available to connect standard EIDE devices with a 40 pin IDC header EIDE Connector Connector type IDC44 pin header 2 00 mm Pin Signal Pin Signal 1 Reset 2 GND 3 Data7 4 Data8 5 Data6 6 Data9 7 Data5 8 Data10 9 Data4 10 Data11 11 Data3 12 Data12 13 Data2 14 Data13 15 Data1 16 Data14 17 Data0 18 Data15 19 GND 20 NC 21 DRQ0 22 GND 23 Write 24 GND 25 Read 26...

Page 26: ...ata 5 KB Data 6 KB Clock 7 GND 8 5 Volt Standby 9 Ext Battery 10 Reset In Power Button 3 9 USB 2 0 Ports Four standard USB 2 0 host ports are provided with the Cool SpaceRunner LX800 Three are located on the IDC12 header USB An adapter cable is available to use standard USB devices with this connector The other one is located on the IDC10 header Ethernet A standard adapter cable is available too I...

Page 27: ...2 0 Connector 2 3 4 Connector type IDC12 pin header 2 54 mm Pin Signal Pin Signal 1 VCC_USB2 2 USB GND 3 USB2 4 USB2 5 VCC_USB3 6 USB GND 7 USB3 8 USB3 9 VCC_USB4 10 USB GND 11 USB4 12 USB4 Pin Signal Pin Signal 1 ETH1 TX 2 ETH1 TX 3 ETH1 RX 4 SMB_DATA 5 SMB_CLK 6 ETH1 RX 7 USB1 8 USB1 9 VCC_USB1 10 USB GND ...

Page 28: ...our operating system driver s logic this may mean setting a non inverted RTS bit to 0 in your application software The serial ports are programmable in BIOS setup When entering Motherboard Device Configuration Æ Serial and Parallel Device Configurations configuration of the serial ports is accessible The following settings are possible for COM1 and COM2 Disabled 3F8 IRQ4 base address interrupt cha...

Page 29: ... protect the ports of the external device in the same way Caution Termination Resistors should not be used in RS232 Mode Otherwise the serial ports will not work 3 11 Parallel Port LPT1 The parallel port is located on an IDC26 header An adapter cable with a standard DSUB 25 female connector is available The parallel port is programmable in BIOS Entering Motherboard Device Configuration Æ Serial an...

Page 30: ...uit of the ITE8712 Super I O It is possible to program the trigger duration see chapter 4 3 for an example 3 13 LEMT functions The onboard Microcontroller implements power sequencing and LEMT LiPPERT Enhanced Management Technology functionality The microcontroller communicates via the System Management Bus with the CPU Chipset The following functions are implemented Total operating hours counter C...

Page 31: ...use Data 5 KB Data 6 KB Clock 7 GND 8 5 Volt Standby 9 Ext Battery 10 Power Button default Reset In 3 15 External Power Button The Power Button signal is located on the IDC10 Header PS 2 To power up down the board the signal Power Button must be pulled to GND It is not available in standard configuration Connector type IDC10 pin header 2 54 mm Pin Signal Pin Signal 1 Speaker 2 Mouse Clock 3 Reset ...

Page 32: ...on of the standard PCI bus It allows all of the PC 104 features to be used together with the high speed PCI bus The main features are PC 104 Plus Bus slot fully compatible with PCI version 2 2 specifications Integrated PCI arbitration interface 32 bit wide 3 3V Translation of PCI cycles to ISA bus Translation of ISA master initiated cycle to PCI Support for burst read write from PCI master 33 MHz ...

Page 33: ...GND AD19 17 n c AD23 AD22 n c 18 IDSEL0 GND IDSEL IDSEL2 19 AD24 C BE3 VI O IDSEL3 20 GND AD26 AD25 GND 21 AD29 5 Volts AD28 AD27 22 5 Volts AD30 GND AD31 23 REQ0 GND REQ1 VI O 24 GND REQ2 5 Volts GNT0 25 GNT1 VI O GNT2 GND 26 5 Volts CLK0 GND CKL1 27 CLK2 5 Volts CLK3 GND 28 GND INTD 5 Volts RST 29 12 Volts INTA INTB INTC 30 12 Volts REQ3 GNT3 GND Note All VI O pins are connected to 3 3V The volt...

Page 34: ...ot supported on this board PC 104 Bus Connector Pin A B 1 IOCHCK GND 2 D7 RSTDRV 3 D6 5V see note 4 D5 IRQ9 5 D4 5V 6 D3 DRQ2 7 D2 12V see note Pin D C 8 D1 ENDXFER 0 GND GND 9 D0 12V 1 MEMCS16 SBHE 10 IOCHRDY KEY 2 IOCS16 LA23 11 AEN SMEMW 3 IRQ LA22 12 A19 SMEMR 4 IRQ LA21 13 A18 IOW 5 IRQ LA20 14 A17 IOR 6 IRQ LA19 15 A16 DACK3 7 IRQ LA18 16 A15 DRQ3 8 DACK LA17 17 A14 DACK1 9 DRQ MEMR 18 A13 D...

Page 35: ...that information over 2 years without any activation of the board That depends on the use of the board When power is up the battery does not lose capacity With the remove of the jumper battery the life time of the battery can be increased In that case the battery only looses capacity over self discharge The BIOS revision can be easily updated on board with software under DOS Configuring the Xpress...

Page 36: ...ith Y Should you want to discard everything select Exit Without Save When troubleshooting a system it is highly recommend to first restoring the BIOS s factory settings before any debugging is done This is achieved with Load Defaults in the main setup menu If you cannot reach the BIOS setup because of bad system configuration reset the board five times for loading default values The Motherboard De...

Page 37: ...not there is the option to select it manually too The onboard SSD it can be chosen as Master or Slave on the EIDE channel If only the SSD is connected the option 80 Conductor Cable Sense can set to Force 80 to reach the maximum performance of UDMA4 mode With the three other possibilities it runs in UDMA2 mode A second connected device should support the UDMA4 if selected otherwise it will led to f...

Page 38: ...485 It is possible to change the resource and interrupts of all ports Hard Drive Setting Options Serial Port 1 2 Disabled 0x3f8 IRQ 4 0x2f8 IRQ 3 0x3e8 IRQ4 0x2e8 IRQ3 Serial Mode RS232 RS485 Parallel Port Disabled 0x378 0x278 0x3BC Parallel Mode Compatible PS 2 Bi directional EPP 1 7 EPP 1 9 ECP Parallel IRQ Disabled IRQ5 IRQ7 IRQ9 IRQ10 IRQ11 Parallel DMA Channel 1 Channel 3 ...

Page 39: ...v 1 5 33 44 The DDMA Configuration menu allows activating ISA DMA for channel 0 to 7 The Graphics Configuration menu allows setting up different displays and their several functions Possible options are mentioned in chapter 3 4 too ...

Page 40: ...e selected Port 4 can be changed to client mode Note If you have an external ISA card that needs e g IRQ 5 PCI Interrupt steering must be configured in a way that none of the PCI interrupt request is routed to IRQ 5 In this example it would be possible to steer PCI INTC to IRQ 10 System Clock PLL Configuration lets you define the CPU and PLL settings Note CPU Multipliers above 15 500Mhz may seriou...

Page 41: ... 5 35 44 The Power Management menu gives control over supported power down modes Note Some Linux versions may require acpi force as a kernel boot parameter to make use of ACPI Miscellaneous Configuration controls various other features ...

Page 42: ...7Fh Range 4 300h 33Fh Range 5 340h 35Fh Memory Range 0 C8000h CFFFFh Range 1 D0000h DFFFFh If a PCI device e g on an external adapter needs some of these ranges the space has to be freed because the system is NOT Plug and Play Otherwise if an external ISA card needs additional I O or Memory space the above ranges need to be reconfigured Note You need to know exactly the resources that are needed b...

Page 43: ...n be automatically loaded at boot time To load these the power must be switched on and off again within 2 seconds This sequence must be repeated 5 times and then the default values get loaded by the BIOS Pressing the Reset Button five times while the system is booting achieves the same result 4 2 Drivers Software drivers for Ethernet AES and graphics adapter are available for the Cool SpaceRunner ...

Page 44: ...nals with it that the POST is in progress After that the LED may be freely used by any application program The following program chances the state of the LIVE LED include stdio h include sys io h define PORT 0x1220 int main unsigned char DATA LED iopl 3 LED inb PORT 0x01 Mask the BIT 0 of GPIO1x bank DATA inb PORT if LED 0x01 printf nLIVE LED was OFF n outb DATA 1 PORT printf sleep 2 printf nSwitc...

Page 45: ...ackage should be installed include stdio h include sys io h include unistd h define CONF_ADDR 0x2E define CONF_DATA 0x2F int main unsigned char i iopl 3 outb 0x87 CONF_ADDR sets SIO in configuration mode fixed sequence outb 0x01 CONF_ADDR 0x87 0x01 0x55 0x55 outb 0x55 CONF_ADDR outb 0x55 CONF_ADDR outb 0x07 CONF_ADDR LDN 0x07 outb 0x07 CONF_DATA outb 0x72 CONF_ADDR set time out value to seconds ou...

Page 46: ...d using gcc under Linux For using the listed libraries the libc6 package should be installed include stdio h include unistd h include sys io h define LPC_INDEX 0x295 define LPC_DATA 0x296 int main signed char cputemp ambtemp iopl 3 printf Press CTRL C to cancel nCPU AMBIENT n while 1 outb 0x29 LPC_INDEX read out CPU temp cputemp inb LPC_DATA outb 0x2A LPC_INDEX read out Ambient temp ambtemp inb LP...

Page 47: ...s Range Hex Size Description 1024K 16384K 100000 FFFFFF 15360K Extended Memory 960K 1023K F0000 FFFFF 64K System BIOS 936K 959K EA000 EFFFF 24K Unused 932K 935K E9000 E9FFF 4K ACPI 896K 931K E0000 E8FFF 36K Unused 800K 895K C8000 DFFFF 96K Mapped to ISA bus 768K 799K C0000 C7FFF 32K Graphics BIOS 736K 768K B8000 BFFFF 32K Color Text Memory 704K 736K B0000 B7FFF 32K Monochrome Text Memory 640K 704K...

Page 48: ...F Numeric Coprocessor 0100 017F PCI ISA Bridge Positive Decode Range 1 0180 01BF PCI ISA Bridge Positive Decode Range 2 01C0 01CF PCI ISA Bridge Positive Decode Range 3 01F0 01FF IDE Controller 0200 027F PCI ISA Bridge Positive Decode Range 4 0279 0279 ISA PnP Data port 0295 0296 LPC Bus 02F8 02FF COM2 0300 033F PCI ISA Bridge Positive Decode Range 5 0340 035F PCI ISA Bridge Positive Decode Range ...

Page 49: ... 11 Intel 82551IT PCI Ethernet adapter 11 Standard extended PCI to USB universal host controller 11 Standard USB host controller HCD 12 PS 2 mouse 13 Numeric coprocessor 14 Primary IDE channel 15 Not used Note Depending on the BIOS settings it s possible to reserve several IRQ s for the PC 104 or PC 104 plus bus 5 4 DMA Channels DMA Data width System Resource 0 8 bits Available 1 8 bits Available ...

Page 50: ...es IT8712 Positive Decode I O Range 1 I O 1 180 1BF 64 bytes IT8712 Positive Decode I O Range 2 I O 2 1C0 1DF 32 bytes IT8712 Positive Decode I O Range 3 I O 3 200 27F 128 bytes IT8712 Positive Decode I O Range 4 I O 4 300 33F 64 bytes IT8712 Positive Decode I O Range 5 I O 5 340 35F 32 bytes IT8888 Positive Decode I O Range 6 Mem 0 C8000 CFFFF 32 Kbytes Memory mapped to ISA Mem 1 0D000 DFFFF 64 K...

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Page 52: ...eode LX Processors Data Book AMD Geode CS5536 Companion Device Data Book Datasheet LPC interface ITE IT8712F available at http www ite com tw B 2 PC 104 and PC 104 Plus Specifications A copy of the latest PC 104 and PC104 Plus specifications can be obtained from the PC 104 Consortium s website at www pc104 org ...

Page 53: ...o its manual Returning Products for Repair To return a product to LiPPERT for repair you need to get a Return Material Authorization RMA number first Please print the RMA Request Form from 73Hhttp www lippertembedded com service repairs html fill in the blanks and fax it to 49 621 4321430 We ll return it to you with the RMA number Deliveries without a valid RMA number are returned to sender at his...

Page 54: ...IOS hardcopies TME 104P CSR_LX800 R0V6 doc 2008 09 09 PK MTBF figures added TME 104P CSR_LX800 R0V7 doc 2008 09 15 CS Refreshed chapter 3 13 from SMC to LEMT content TME 104P CSR_LX800 R1V0 doc 2008 10 30 PK Released TME 104P CSR_LX800 R1V1 doc 2008 12 01 CS 2 3 LIVE LED description 4 3 Added program example for LIVE LED 5 7 correction of signals TME 104P CSR_LX800 R1V2 doc 2008 12 15 CS 4 1 New d...