User`s guide
Copyright © 2012 congatec AG TCEDm10 9/94
Contents
1 Specications ...........................................................................12
1.1 Feature List .............................................................................. 12
1.2 Supported Operating Systems .................................................13
1.3 Mechanical Dimensions ...........................................................13
1.4 Supply Voltage Standard Power .............................................. 14
1.4.1 Electrical Characteristics ..........................................................14
1.4.2 Rise Time ................................................................................. 14
1.5 Power Consumption .................................................................15
1.5.1 conga-TCA Intel
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Atom™ N2600 Dual Core 1.6 GHz 1MB Cache
16
1.5.2 conga-TCA Intel
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Atom™ N2800 Dual Core 1.86 GHz 1MB Cache
16
1.5.3 conga-TCA Intel
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Atom™ D2550 Dual Core 1.86 GHz 1MB Cache
17
1.5.4 conga-TCA Intel
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Atom™ D2550 (USB 3.0) Dual Core 1.86 GHz
1MB Cache ..............................................................................17
1.6 Supply Voltage Battery Power ................................................. 18
1.6.1 CMOS Battery Power Consumption ........................................18
1.7 Environmental Specications ...................................................18
2 Block Diagram ..........................................................................19
3 Heatspreader ...........................................................................20
3.1 Heatspreader Dimensions .......................................................21
4 Connector Subsystems Rows A, B, C, D .................................22
4.1 Primary Connector Rows A and B ............................................ 23
4.1.1 Serial ATA™ (SATA) ................................................................. 23
4.1.2 USB 2.0 ....................................................................................23
4.1.3 High Denition Audio (HDA) Interface ......................................23
4.1.4 Gigabit Ethernet ......................................................................23
4.1.5 LPC Bus ...................................................................................24
4.1.6 I²C Bus Fast mode ...................................................................24
4.1.7 PCI Express™ .........................................................................24
4.1.8 ExpressCard™ .........................................................................24
4.1.9 Graphics Output (VGA/CRT) ...................................................24
4.1.10 LCD ..........................................................................................25
4.1.11 SPI ...........................................................................................25
4.1.12 General Purpose Serial Interface .............................................25
4.1.13 General Purpose Input/Output .................................................25
4.1.14 Power Control ..........................................................................26
4.1.15 Power Management .................................................................28
4.2 Secondary Connector Rows C and D ......................................29
4.2.1 USB 3.0 ....................................................................................29
4.2.2 HDMI ........................................................................................29
4.2.3 DisplayPort (DP) ......................................................................29
5 Additional Features ..................................................................30
5.1 congatec Board Controller (cBC) .............................................30
5.2 Board Information ....................................................................30
5.3 Watchdog ................................................................................. 30
5.4 I
2
C Bus ..................................................................................... 30
5.5 Power Loss Control ..................................................................31
5.6 Embedded BIOS ...................................................................... 31
5.6.1 CMOS Backup in Non Volatile Memory ...................................31
5.6.2 OEM CMOS Default Settings and OEM BIOS Logo ................ 31
5.6.3 OEM BIOS Code ......................................................................31
5.6.4 congatec Battery Management Interface ................................. 32
5.6.5 API Support (CGOS/EAPI) ......................................................32
5.7 Security Features .....................................................................33
5.8 Suspend to Ram ......................................................................33
6 conga Tech Notes ....................................................................34
6.1 Intel
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Matrix Storage Technology ............................................ 34
6.1.1 AHCI ........................................................................................34
6.2 Intel
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Processor Features ........................................................34
6.2.1 Thermal Monitor and Catastrophic Thermal Protection ...........34
6.2.2 Processor Performance Control ...............................................35
6.3 Thermal Management ..............................................................35
6.4 ACPI Suspend Modes and Resume Events ............................ 37
6.5 USB 2.0 EHCI Host Controller Support ...................................38
7 Signal Descriptions and Pinout Tables ..................................... 39