20F026L00 E1 2017-06-06 F26L Intel Atom Apollo Lake-I CPU Board 3U CompactPCI PlusIO User Manual Contents Contents Contents. 2 About this Document . 5 Product Safety . 7 Legal Information . 8 1 Product Overview . 10 1.1 Product Description . 10 1.2 External Interfaces . .11 1.3 Board Layout . .12 1.4 Block Diagram . 14 1.5 Technical Data . 15 1.6 Product Identification. 18 2 Getting Started . 19 2.1 Configuring the Hardware. 19 2.1.1 Installing an mSATA Disk. .19 2.1.2 Installing a microSD Card . .20 2.2 Connecting and Starting . .21 2.3 Installing Operating System Software . 21 2.4 Installing Driver Software . 21 2.5 Using the F26L under Windows . 22 2.5.1 Accessing SMBus/I2C Devices . .22 2.5.2 Managing RTC Time Adjustments . 22 2.6 Using the F26L under Linux. 23 2.6.1 Accessing Board Management Functions. 23 2.6.2 Managing RTC Time Adjustments . 26 3 Functional Description. 27 3.1 Power Supply. .27 3.2 Processor Core . 27 3.2.1 Thermal Considerations . .27 3.3 Supervision and Management . .28 3.3.1 Watchdog . 28 3.3.2 Temperature Measurement . 28 3.3.3 Status LEDs . 28 3.4 Reset . .29 3.5 Real-Time Clock (RTC). 29 3.5.1 Software Support . 29 3.6 Trusted Platform Module (TPM) . 29 3.7 Memory . 30 3.7.1 DRAM System Memory . 30 3.7.2 Boot Flash . 30 3.8 Mass Storage . .31 3.8.1 mSATA Slot . 31 3.8.2 microSD Card Slot . 31 3.8.3 Serial ATA (SATA) . 31 20F026L00 E1 2017-06-06 Page 2 Contents 3.9 Video. .32 3.9.1 VGA. .32 3.10 USB . .33 3.10.1 Front Connection . 33 3.10.2 Side-Card Connection . 33 3.10.3 Rear Connection. 33 3.11 Ethernet . 34 3.11.1 Front Connection . 34 3.11.2 Rear Connection. 35 3.11.3 Signal Mnemonics . 35 3.11.4 Ethernet MAC Addresses . .36 3.11.5 Ethernet Status LEDs . 36 3.12 PCI Express . .36 3.13 Side-Card Interface . .37 3.13.1 Connection . 37 3.14 CompactPCI . .40 3.14.1 CompactPCI J2 . .40 4 Hardware/Software Interface . 42 4.1 SMBus/I2C Devices . .42 4.2 BMC API (Application Programming Interface). .43 4.2.1 BMC Command Packets . .43 4.2.2 Example BMC API Usage . .65 5 Maintenance . 66 5.1 Lithium Battery (Optional) . 66 20F026L00 E1 2017-06-06 Page 3 Contents Figures Figure 1. Front interfaces (02F026L00 on the left, 02F026L01 on the right) . .11 Figure 2. Board layout – top view. 12 Figure 3. Board layout – bottom view . 13 Figure 4. Block diagram. .14 Figure 5. Product labels. .18 Figure 6. Position of lithium battery on F26L . .43 Tables Table 1. Error codes signaled by board management controller via LED flashes. 28 Table 2. Connector types – VGA . 32 Table 3. Pin assignment – VGA . ..