QCT Rackgo X User manual

QCT Rackgo X
OCP Debug Card with LCD
2018/10/15

Agenda
•Overview
•High Level Features
•Mechanical View & Interconnection
•Why Needs This Product
•Key Part Placement
•UART Connection with Host
•LED Panel Content & Display
•Design Files Contribution
•OCP Tenets/Principles
•Summary
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Overview
•Introduction
-‘’QCT Rackgo X OCP Debug Card with LCD’’ is to intend to ease the debug effort
and time consumed. It already has successfully approved the obvious improvement
of the service efficiency with various compatible systems, for instance, ‘’Tioga
Pass’’ & ‘’Yosemite V2’’.
•Contributions
- Design package
- Product submission to Marketplace
- Product Recognition: Accepted level
•Specification Reference
•Facebook_OCP_Debug_Card_with_LCD_Spec_v1p0
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High Level Features
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Prodcut Description Rackgo X OCP Debug Card with LCD
Dimension 70.55 mm(L)x48mm(W)x17.1mm(H)
Electrical Interface
1. USB 3.0 Connector with remapped proprietary singal pin, the USB3.0 connector will
downgrade to support USB2.0 speed only
--USB2.0
--I2C
--PRSNT
--UART
2. Micro USB
3. USB 2.0 type A connector
User interface
--Power/Reset/UART select button
--5‐way switch:
The 5 way switch allows the user to page up or page down through the debug
information on LED panel, for example, post code details/system information/BMC
critical SEL/critical sensor/user settings
--Bluetooth on/off switch:
Turn the battery power on/off to enable/disable Bluetooth module
LED Indicator
1. MCU Heartbeat
2. Bluetooth LED
3. Low Battery LED: red LED on when battery lower than 10%; it’s off otherwise
LCD panel 128x64 dots and can display 8 rows and 16 letters on each row
LED Indicator
LCD panel
DImension
Product Description
Electrical Interface
User interface

Mechanical View & Interconnection
•‘’Debug card with LCD’’ will be plugged
to remapped USB3.0 connector of the
baseboard by cable connection
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Debug card
with LCD
Baseboard IO side
(Tioga Pass)

Why Needs This Product
➢What is the real situation we are facing now
- For data center user: No user friendly debug utility when
troubleshooting in their working environment
- For server baseboard designer: Hard to find enough IO space for the
debug-purpose I/O ports
•What this product intend to solve
-A text‐rich user interface with an LCD for data center user
- Reserve more I/O space of baseboard for features expansion
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Key Part Placement
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Source:Fcebook_OCP_Debug_Card_with_LCD_Spec_v1p0

Block Diagram
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Source:Fcebook_OCP_Debug_Card_with_LCD_Spec_v1p0

UART Connection with Host
➢UART Connection between Server Board to host side
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LED Panel Content & Display
•The display provide the information
below:
–POST Code Frame
–System Info Frame
–Critical SEL Frame
–Critical Sensor Frame
–GPIO Status Frame
•If any sensor is out of the threshold,
the whole screen should blink and
invert the color for the sensors which
out of the threshold
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Source:Fcebook_OCP_Debug_Card_with_LCD_Spec_v1p0