Intel ETX CD User Manual

® Kontron User's Guide

® ETX® CD

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Table of Contents

Table of Contents

1 User Information........................................................................................................ 6

1.1 About This Document .........................................................................................6

1.2 Copyright Notice ...............................................................................................6

1.3 Trademarks ......................................................................................................6

1.4 Standards ........................................................................................................6

1.5 Warranty .........................................................................................................6

1.6 Technical Support..............................................................................................7

2 Introduction .............................................................................................................. 8

2.1 ETX®-CD ..........................................................................................................8

2.2 ETX® Documentation .........................................................................................9

2.3 ETX® Benefits...................................................................................................9

3 Specifications ...........................................................................................................10

3.1 Functional Specifications..................................................................................10

3.1.1 Block diagram ................................................................................................ 13

3.2 Mechanical Specifications .................................................................................14

3.2.1 Dimensions ....................................................................................................14

3.3 Electrical Specifications.................................................................................... 14

3.3.1 Supply Voltage................................................................................................ 14

3.3.2 Supply Voltage Ripple ......................................................................................14

3.3.3 Supply Current 5 V_SB......................................................................................14

3.3.4 Supply Current (typical, DOS prompt) ..................................................................14

3.3.5 Power Consumption (Windows® XP SP2)...............................................................15

3.3.6 CMOS Battery Power Consumption ...................................................................... 15

3.4 Environmental Specifications ............................................................................ 16

3.4.1 Temperature................................................................................................... 16

3.4.2 Humidity ....................................................................................................... 16

3.5 MTBF............................................................................................................. 16

4 ETX® connectors........................................................................................................18

4.1 Connector Locations ........................................................................................18

4.2 General Signal Description ................................................................................18

4.3 Connector X1 (PCI bus, USB, Audio) ....................................................................19

4.3.1 Connector X1 Signal Levels................................................................................ 20

4.3.2 Connector X1 Signal Description......................................................................... 22

4.4 Connector X2 (ISA Bus) ....................................................................................23

4.4.1 Connector X2 Signal Levels................................................................................ 24

4.4.2 Connector X2 Signal Description......................................................................... 26

4.5 Connector X3 (VGA, LCD, Video, COM1 and COM2, LPT/Floppy, Mouse, Keyboard) ......... 26

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4.5.1

Connector X3 (Signal Levels) .............................................................................29

4.5.2 Connector X3 Signal Description......................................................................... 31

4.6 Connector X4 Subsystems ................................................................................. 33

4.6.1 Connector X4 (IDE 1, IDE 2, Ethernet, Miscellaneous) ............................................ 33

4.6.2 Connector X4 (Signal Levels) .............................................................................34

4.6.3 Connector X4 Signal Description......................................................................... 36

4.7 Feature Connector J11 ..................................................................................... 37

4.7.1 SDVO Output...................................................................................................37

4.7.2 SDVO Connector and Flat Foil Cable .....................................................................37

4.7.3 BIOS Requirements..........................................................................................38

4.7.4 Pinout Feature Connector J11 ............................................................................38

5 Special Features ........................................................................................................40

5.1 Watchdog Timer ..............................................................................................40

6 Design Considerations................................................................................................41

6.1 Thermal Management.......................................................................................41

6.2 Heatspreader Dimensions ................................................................................. 41

7 Important Technology Information ..............................................................................43

7.1 I/O APIC vs 8259 PIC Interrupt mode ...................................................................43

7.1.1 Method of interrupts transmission ......................................................................43

7.1.2 Interrupt priority ............................................................................................ 43

7.1.3 More interrupts............................................................................................... 43

7.2 Thermal Monitor and Catastrophic Thermal Protection ............................................43

7.2.1 Summary .......................................................................................................44

7.3 Processor Performance Control .......................................................................... 44

7.4 Thermal Management....................................................................................... 44

7.5 ETX®-CD onboard Fan connector ........................................................................ 45

7.5.1 Schematics of Fan control .................................................................................45

7.5.2 Location and Pinout of Fan connector J6.............................................................. 46

7.5.3 BIOS Settings .................................................................................................47

7.5.4 Electrical characteristics................................................................................... 47

7.5.5 Processor Clock Throttling.................................................................................48

7.6 ACPI Suspend Modes and Resume Events.............................................................. 48

8 System Resources ......................................................................................................50

8.1 Interrupt Request (IRQ) Lines ............................................................................50

8.2 Direct Memory Access (DMA) Channels.................................................................51

8.3 Memory Area ..................................................................................................52

8.4 I/O Address Map ............................................................................................. 52

8.5 Peripheral Component Interconnect (PCI) Devices .................................................52

8.6 Inter-IC (I2C) Bus............................................................................................52

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8.7

System Management (SM) Bus ...........................................................................52

8.8 JILI-I2C Bus ...................................................................................................53

9 Limitations ..............................................................................................................54

9.1 ISA Bus ......................................................................................................... 54

9.2 Windows 2000 ................................................................................................ 54

10 BIOS Operation .........................................................................................................55

10.1 Determining the BIOS Version............................................................................ 55

10.2 Setup Guide ................................................................................................... 55

10.2.1 Start Phoenix BIOS Setup Utility.........................................................................55

10.3 BIOS Setup Menus ........................................................................................... 57

10.3.1 Info Screen ....................................................................................................57

10.3.2 Main Menu .....................................................................................................58

10.3.3 Advanced....................................................................................................... 60

10.3.4 Security Menu................................................................................................. 80

10.3.5 Power Menu ................................................................................................... 81

10.3.6 Boot Menu .....................................................................................................83

10.3.7 Exit Menu ......................................................................................................84

10.4 Updating or Restoring BIOS............................................................................... 85

10.5 Preventing Problems When Updating or Restoring BIOS ..........................................86

11 Appendix A: JIDA Standard .........................................................................................87

11.1 JIDA Information ............................................................................................87

12 Appendix B: PC Architecture Information ......................................................................88

12.1 Buses............................................................................................................ 88

12.1.1 ISA, Standard PS/2 – Connectors........................................................................88

12.1.2 PCI/104.........................................................................................................88

12.1.3 General PC Architecture ....................................................................................88

12.2 Ports.............................................................................................................89

12.2.1 RS-232 Serial ................................................................................................. 89

12.2.2 Serial ATA ......................................................................................................89

12.2.3 USB ..............................................................................................................89

12.2.4 Programming ................................................................................................. 89

13 Appendix C: Document Revision...................................................................................91

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1 User Information

1 User Information

1.1 About This Document

This document provides information about products from Kontron Embedded Modules GmbH and/or its
subsidiaries. No warranty of suitability, purpose, or fitness is implied. While every attempt has been
made to ensure that the information in this document is accurate, the information contained within is
supplied “as-is” and is subject to change without notice.

For the circuits, descriptions and tables indicated, Kontron assumes no responsibility as far as patents or
other rights of third parties are concerned.

1.2 Copyright Notice

Copyright © 2003-2007 Kontron Embedded Modules GmbH

All rights reserved. No part of this document may be reproduced, transmitted, transcribed, stored in a
retrieval system, or translated into any language or computer language, in any form or by any means
(electronic, mechanical, photocopying, recording, or otherwise), without the express written permission
of Kontron Embedded Modules GmbH.

DIMM-PC®, PISA®, ETX®, ETXexpress® , X-board®, DIMM-IO® and DIMM-BUS® are trademarks or
registered trademarks of Kontron Embedded Modules GmbH. Kontron is trademark or registered
trademark of Kontron AG.

1.3 Trademarks

The following lists the trademarks of components used in this board.

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IBM, XT, AT, PS/2 and Personal System/2 are trademarks of International Business
Machines Corp.

Microsoft is a registered trademark of Microsoft Corp.

Intel is a registered trademark of Intel Corp.

All other products and trademarks mentioned in this manual are trademarks of their
respective owners.

1.4 Standards

Kontron Embedded Modules GmbH is certified to ISO 9000 standards.

1.5 Warranty

This Kontron Embedded Modules GmbH product is warranted against defects in material and
workmanship for the warranty period from the date of shipment. During the warranty period, Kontron
Embedded Modules GmbH will at its discretion decide to repair or replace defective products.

Within the warranty period, the repair of products is free of charge as long as warranty conditions are
observed.

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The warranty does not apply to defects resulting from improper or inadequate maintenance or handling
by the buyer, unauthorized modification or misuse, operation outside of the product’s environmental
specifications or improper installation or maintenance.

Kontron Embedded Modules GmbH will not be responsible for any defects or damages to other products
not supplied by Kontron Embedded Modules GmbH that are caused by a faulty Kontron Embedded
Modules GmbH product.

1.6 Technical Support

Technicians and engineers from Kontron Embedded Modules GmbH and/or its subsidiaries are available
for technical support. We are committed to making our product easy to use and will help you use our
products in your systems.

Before contacting Kontron Embedded Modules GmbH technical support, please consult our Web site at
http://www.kontron-emea.com/emd for the latest product documentation, utilities, and drivers. If the
information does not help solve the problem, contact us by telephone or email.

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