Lippert PC/104 Carrier Cool LiteRunner-ECO User manual

TME-CLR-ECO-R0V6.docx
Revision 0.6 / September 10
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Cool LiteRunner-ECO
PC/104 Carrier for CoreExpress®
Technical Manual

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Technical Manual Cool LiteRunner-ECO
LiPPERT Document: TME-CLR-ECO-R0V6.docx Revision 0.6
Copyright © 2010 LiPPERT Embedded Computers GmbH, All rights reserved
Contents and specifications within this manual are subject of change without notice.
Trademarks
CoreExpress and the CoreExpress logo are registered trademarks of SFF-SIG.
MS-DOS, Windows, Windows 95, Windows 98, Windows NT, Windows XP, Windows Vista and Windows 7 are
trademarks of Microsoft Corporation. PS/2 is a trademark of International Business Machines, Inc. Intel, Pentium,
and Core are trademarks or registered trademarks of Intel Corporation. Geode is a trademark of Advanced Micro
Devices, Inc. M-Systems and DiskOnChip are trademarks or registered trademarks of M-Systems Flash Disk
Pioneers, Ltd. PC/104 is a registered trademark of PC/104 Consortium. All other trademarks appearing in this
document are the property of their respective owners.

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Table of Contents
1. Overview 1
1.1 Introduction ............................................................................................... 1
Carrier Features ......................................................................................... 1
Block Diagram ........................................................................................... 2
1.2 Ordering Information .................................................................................... 3
Cool LiteRunner-ECO Models ........................................................................ 3
Cable Sets and Accessories .......................................................................... 3
1.3 Specifications............................................................................................. 4
Electrical Specifications ............................................................................... 4
Environmental Specifications ......................................................................... 4
Mean Time Between Failures ......................................................................... 4
1.4 Mechanical ................................................................................................ 4
Top ........................................................................................................ 5
Bottom (vertically mirrored) ........................................................................... 6
2. Getting Started 7
2.1 Connector Locations .................................................................................... 7
Top ........................................................................................................ 7
Bottom .................................................................................................... 8
2.2 Jumper Locations................................................................................... 9
Top ........................................................................................................ 9
2.3 LED Indicators ....................................................................................... 10
2.4 Hardware Setup.......................................................................................... 11
3. Module Description 12
3.1 CoreExpress Carrier connector (X2) .................................................................. 12
3.2 Display Interfaces ........................................................................................ 14
VGA Connector (X3) ...................................................................................14
LVDS Connector (X4) ..................................................................................15
Display Backlight Connector (X6) ...................................................................16
Display Voltage Selector (X5) ........................................................................16
3.3 Gigabit LAN (X13, X14).................................................................................. 17

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3.4 USB (X7, X8, X9) ......................................................................................... 18
3.5 Serial ATA II ports (X11, X12) .......................................................................... 19
3.6 High Definition Audio (X10) ............................................................................. 20
3.7 PS/2 Mouse and Keyboard (X19)...................................................................... 20
3.8 Serial Ports (X17)......................................................................................... 21
COM Connector ........................................................................................21
RS485-Termination Jumpers (X18) .................................................................22
3.9 Parallel Port (X20) ........................................................................................ 22
LPT Connector .........................................................................................23
3.10 PC/104 Bus (X21) ........................................................................................ 24
PC/104 Bus Connector ...............................................................................24
3.11 Micro SD connector (X22) .............................................................................. 25
3.12 Supervisory connector (X23) ........................................................................... 25
GPIOs ....................................................................................................25
CAN-Bus ................................................................................................26
SM-Bus ..................................................................................................26
Main- and Standby Power LED ......................................................................26
Suspend LED ...........................................................................................26
LIFE LED .................................................................................................26
WD OUT .................................................................................................26
SATA LED# ..............................................................................................26
Ethernet Status LEDs .................................................................................26
3.13 BIOS Recovery (X24) .................................................................................... 26
3.14 BIOS defaults Jumper (X27).................................................................. 27
3.15 Battery Jumper (X28)............................................................................ 27
3.16 Power Connector (X26) ......................................................................... 28
3.17 PCI-Express Mini Card (X15) ................................................................. 29
4. Using the Module 30
4.1 BIOS ...................................................................................................... 30
4.2 Drivers................................................................................................... 30
4.3 Programming Examples......................................................................... 30
GPIOs ....................................................................................................31

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Life LED ..................................................................................................32
4.4 Hardware Resources.............................................................................. 34
5. Troubleshooting 35
Appendix A, Contact Information 1
Appendix B, Getting Help 2
Appendix C, Further Resources 3
Appendix D, Revision History 4

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Acronyms
ACPI Advanced Configuration and Power Management Interface
APM Advanced Power Management
ATA Advanced Technology Attachment
BIOS Basic Input Output System
BPP Bits per Pixel
CD Compact Disc
CLR Cool LiteRunner
COM Communication Equipment
CPU Central Processing Unit
CRT Cathode Ray Tube
DAC Digital-to-Analog-Converter
DDR Double Date Rate
DMA Direct Memory Access
EIDE Enhanced Integrated Device Electronics
EMC Electromagnetic Compatibility
ETH Ethernet
FIFO First In First Out
FPU Floating Point Unit
FWH Firmware Hub
GPIO General Purpose Input Output
HDD Hard Disk Drive
I²C Inter-Integrated Circuit
IP Internet Protocol
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 Interface
PLL Phase-Locked Loop
PWR Power
SMB System Management Bus
SMC System Management Controller
SPI Serial Peripheral Interface
SVGA Super Video Graphics Array
UART Universal Asynchronous Receiver Transmitter
USB Universal Serial Bus
UDMA Ultra-Direct Memory Access
UDP User Datagram Protocol
VGA Video Graphics Array

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1. Overview
1.1 Introduction
The PC/104 Carrier Cool LiteRunner-ECO is specially designed for system on modules according to the
CoreExpress specification. Depending on the used module, the board concept offers many standard I/O
interfaces.
Carrier Features
•CoreExpress Carrier connector with 8mm stack height
•VGA
•LVDS, 24/18 bits
•2 x Gigabit LAN
•6 x USB 2.0
•2 x SATA II
•High Definition Audio
•PS/2 mouse and keyboard
•2 x RS232/RS485
•Parallel Port
•1 x PC104 Slot
•µSD-Slot
•Supervisory connector
•Optionally extended temperature range -40 ... +85°C

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Block Diagram

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1.2 Ordering Information
Cool LiteRunner-ECO Models
Order number
Description
702-0012-10 PC/104, CLR-ECO, 1.1GHz, 0°C .. +60°C, 512MB RAM
702-0012-11 PC/104, CLR-ECO, 1.1GHz, 0°C .. +60°C, 1GB RAM
702-0012-12 PC/104, CLR-ECO, 1.1GHz, 0°C .. +60°C, 2GB RAM
702-0012-13 PC/104, CLR-ECO, 1.6GHz, 0°C .. +60°C, 512MB RAM
702-0012-14 PC/104, CLR-ECO, 1.6GHz, 0°C .. +60°C, 1GB RAM
702-0012-15 PC/104, CLR-ECO, 1.6GHz, 0°C .. +60°C, 2GB RAM
802-0012-10 PC/104, CLR-ECO, 1.1GHz, -20°C .. +60°C, 512MB RAM
802-0012-11 PC/104, CLR-ECO, 1.1GHz, -20°C .. +60°C, 1GB RAM
802-0012-12 PC/104, CLR-ECO, 1.1GHz, -20°C .. +60°C, 2GB RAM
802-0012-13 PC/104, CLR-ECO, 1.6GHz, -20°C .. +60°C, 512MB RAM
802-0012-14 PC/104, CLR-ECO, 1.6GHz, -20°C .. +60°C, 1GB RAM
802-0012-15 PC/104, CLR-ECO, 1.6GHz, -20°C .. +60°C, 2GB RAM
902-0012-10 PC/104, CLR-ECO, 1.1GHz, -40°C ..+85°C, 512MB RAM
902-0012-11 PC/104, CLR-ECO, 1.1GHz, -40°C .. +85°C, 1GB RAM
902-0012-12 PC/104, CLR-ECO, 1.1GHz, -40°C .. +85°C, 2GB RAM
902-0012-13 PC/104, CLR-ECO, 1.6GHz, -40°C .. +85°C, 512MB RAM
902-0012-14 PC/104, CLR-ECO, 1.6GHz, -40°C .. +85°C, 1GB RAM
902-0012-15 PC/104, CLR-ECO, 1.6GHz, -40°C .. +85°C, 2GB RAM
Cable Sets and Accessories
Order number
Description
763-0019-10 Adapter Cable Set
765-0028-10 Heat Spreader, CLR-ECO
765-0028-11 Heat sink, CLR-ECO (-20°C ..+60°C)
765-0028-11 Heat sink, CLR-ECO (-40°C ..+85°C)

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1.3 Specifications
Electrical Specifications
Supply voltage +5 V DC, +12V DC for LVDS backlight only if needed
Rise time < 10 ms
Supply voltage tolerance ± 5% *
Inrush current typical 2.0 A
Supply current maximal 2.4 A depending on operating system and connected peripherals **
typical 1.4 A (Windows XP idle mode)
* Voltage must be measured on the board, not at the power supply
** only monitor, mouse and keyboard are attached. Additional peripherals rise up current.
Environmental Specifications
Operating:
Temperature range 0 … 60 °C (standard version, models with part numbers 7xx-xxxx-xx)
-20 … 60 °C (industrial version, models with part numbers 8xx-xxxx-xx)
-40 … 85 °C (extended version, models with part numbers 9xx-xxxx-xx)
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 333,291 hours
1.4 Mechanical
Dimensions (L x W) 90.2 mm x 95.9 mm
Height max. 14.3 mm on top side above PCB with CoreExpress-ECO and heat
spreader
max. 5.0 mm on bottom side below PCB at Mini PCI Express connector
Weight 150 gr. with CoreExpress-ECO and heat spreader
Mounting
4 mounting holes according to PC/104 specification
4 mounting holes for CoreExpress ECO
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!