Document Outline

• 1 User Information
  • 1.1 About This Document
  • 1.2 Copyright Notice
  • 1.3 Trademarks
  • 1.4 Standards
  • 1.5 Warranty
  • 1.6 Technical Support
• 2 Introduction
  • 2.1 The COMe-cOH# COM
  • 2.2 Naming Clarifications
  • 2.3 Understanding the COM Functionality
  • 2.4 COM Express® Documentation
  • 2.5 COM Express® COM Benefits
• 3 Specifications
  • 3.1 Functional Specification
  • 3.2 Functional Block Diagrams
  • 3.3 Mechanical Specifications
  • 3.4 Electrical Specifications
    • 3.4.1 Supply Voltage
      • ATC Power
      • Single Power Supply
    • 3.4.2 Supply Current (Windows XP SP3)
  • 3.5 Environmental Specifications
    • 3.5.1 Temperature
      • Operating: (with Kontron heat spreader plate assembly):
      • Operating (without Kontron heat spreader plate assembly):
      • Humidity
  • 3.6 MTBF
• 4 COM Connectors
  • 4.1 Pin-Outs
    • 4.1.1 Connectors X1A and X1B: microETXexpress® Interface (Type 6)
    • 4.1.2 Connector J1 – Fan
    • 4.1.3 Connector J2 – JTAG (AMD Embedded Probe)
    • 4.1.4 Connectors J3 and J4 – SO-DIMM DDR3 Memory Sockets
    • 4.1.5 Connector J5 –CPLD
    • 4.1.6 PCI Express Interface
    • 4.1.7 USB Interface
      • USB 2.0 Interface
      • USB 3.0 Interface
    • 4.1.8 SATA Interface
    • 4.1.9 Audio Interface
    • 4.1.10 Serial IRQ
    • 4.1.11 Graphics Interface
    • 4.1.12 Ethernet Interface
    • 4.1.13 SPI Bus Interface
    • 4.1.14 LPC Bus Interface
    • 4.1.15 Power Control Interface
    • 4.1.16 Miscellaneous Circuits
• 5 Special Features
  • 5.1 Watchdog Timer (WDT)
  • 5.2 General Purpose Input and Output (GPIO)
  • 5.3 ACPI Suspend Modes and Resume Events
• 6 Design Considerations
  • 6.1 Thermal Management
  • 6.2 Heat Spreader Dimensions
  • 6.3 Onboard Fan Connector
    • 6.3.1 Fan Connector Electrical Characteristics
• 7 System Resources
  • 7.1 Interrupt Request (IRQ) Lines
  • 7.2 Memory Area
  • 7.3 I/O Address Map
  • 7.4 Peripheral Component Interconnect (PCI) Devices
  • 7.5 System Management Bus (SMBus)
  • 7.6 K-Station Resources
• 8 BIOS Operation
  • 8.1 Determining the BIOS Version
  • 8.2 Setup Guide
    • 8.2.1 Start AMIBIOS®8 Setup Utility
  • 8.3 BIOS Setup
    • 8.3.1 Main Menu
      • System Language, System Date, System Time
    • 8.3.2 Advanced Menu
      • Launch PXE OpROM
      • Launch Storage OpROM
      • PCI Subsystem Settings
      • ACPI Settings
      • CPU Configuration
      • IDE Configuration
      • USB Configuration
      • Super I/O Configuration
      • Hardware Monitor
      • Serial Port Console Redirection
        • Console Redirection Settings -- First
        • Console Redirection Settings -- Second
      • Network Stack
      • Kontron Board
    • 8.3.3 Chipset
      • North Bridge
        • GFX Configuration
        • Memory Configuration
        • Node 0 Information
      • North Bridge LVDS Config Select
    • 8.3.4 South Bridge
      • South Bridge SATA Configuration
      • South Bridge USB Configuration
      • South Bridge GPP Port Configuration
      • South Bridge HD Azalia Configuration
    • 8.3.5 Boot Configuration
      • Hard Drive BBS Priorities
    • 8.3.6 Security
      • HDD Security Configuration
    • 8.3.7 Save and Exit
• 9 Appendix B: Architecture Information
  • 9.1 Buses
    • 9.1.1 ISA, Standard PS/2 – Connectors
    • 9.1.2 PCI/104
  • 9.2 General PC Architecture
  • 9.3 Ports
    • 9.3.1 RS-232 Serial
    • 9.3.2 Serial ATA
    • 9.3.3 USB
  • 9.4 Programming
• 10 Appendix C: Document Revision History