Abaco VR12, VP12 6U VME Single Board Computer

This chapter describes features, capabilities, and compatibilities of the VR12 and

VP12 VME Single Board Computer (SBC). The two boards are based on the same

PCB. All further occurrences of the board’s names will be referred to as the VR12.

Any further specification in this document referring to VR12 can be applied to

VR12 and VP12 unless otherwise noted.

The VR12 is a fully IBM®-AT compatible stand-alone PC. It is equipped with

many functions a conventional Personal Computer can only offer after the

installation of several add-in cards. Extension boards can be connected via the

VME interface. The minimal board size and the large number of I/Os and

functions allow the VR12 to be used in many applications.

The VP12 is based on the VR12 but dual slot and provides with a mezzanine card

two hard disk bays. The usage of PMC2 and XMC2 is limited see description of

these interfaces.

See the following block diagram for the boards design.

The VR12 VME Single Board Computer features:

Microprocessor

Intel® Core™ i5/i7 mobile processor (up to 4 MB Level3 cache) with integrated

dual channel ECC Memory Controller, integrated graphic and PCIe channels

Supported CPUs

i7-610E 2.53 GHz 35 W SV (Standard Voltage)

i5-520E 2.4 GHz 35 W SV (Standard Voltage)

i7-620LE 2.0 GHz 25 W LV (Low Voltage)

i7-620UE 1.06 GHz 18 W ULV (Ultra Low Voltage)

Chipset PCH

Intel Series 5 Enhanced Mobile QM57 Peripheral Controller Hub (PCH)

with PCIe channels, SATA, USB, graphic ports, SMBus, LPC, SPI

PCIexpress

Seven PCIexpress links onboard, two XMC x8 slots

SDRAM

onboard soldered, two 72-bit channels, 1 GB to 8 GB DDR3 1066/800 MHz with

ECC

SPI Flash UEFI Firmware with Back-up UEFI Firmware

Easy updating, in-system programmable Flash ROM, automatic system

configuration, write protected Back-up UEFI Firmware with automatic swap

UEFI Firmware.

Integrated VGA, SATA RAID and Ethernet PXE ROM BIOS

USB mass storage support, password protection, headless support

remote console via serial port

EEPROM (Serial)

512 Kbit for user data via SMBus

CMOS RAM

242 byte non-volatile RAM for UEFI Firmware configuration storage

Hard/Flash Disk

Onboard mountable 2.5” SATA (3 GB/s) hard disk or FlashDrive.

Internal Flash Disk (NANDrive™)

Onboard soldered Flash Disk (NANDrive) connected via SATA-PATA controller

Floppy

Via USB

Serial I/O

Three asynchronous 16550 compatible full duplex channels with 16 byte FIFO.

Two COM ports at rear I/O, transfer rates up to 115.2 KBaud, user selectable

RS232/422/485 in UEFI Firmware setup. One COM port RS232 available at front

(not with conduction cooled levels D, E)

GPIO

12 GPIO input or output (10 GPIOs pins shared with DVI1; GPIO(0..9) and DVI1

exclude each other)

Write Protection

Hardwire Write Protection of all non-voltage memories, UEFI Firmware flashes,

User EEPROM, Flash Disk (NANDrive), Config EEPROMS of PCI bridges and

Ethernet controllers

PMC slots

PMC1 and PMC2 with 64 bit/133 MHz PCI-X (3.3 V IO voltage signaling only);

PCI mezzanine connector for standard PMC with front and rear IO. IO signals are

available at the rear connectors.

Compliant to ANSI/VITA 20-2001

Non-Monarch option compliant to ANSI/VITA 32-2003

PMC front I/O not available in conduction cooled

PMC bus is not available if a XMC card is installed

XMC slots

Two XMC slot at the PMC location with x8 PCIe lanes each. The PCIe lanes for the

XMC are shared with PCIe for the PMC-PCI bridges. If a XMC module is installed

the PMC/PCI part is disabled.

VMEbus

PCI bus to VMEbus controller, up to 60 MByte/s transfer rates

FIFOs for write posting, DMA controller with linked list support

Geographical addressing

VMEbus system controller

Master (including RMW) and Slave (including RETRY*) transfer modes:

BLT, ADOH, RMW, RETRY

A64 / A32 / A24 / A16

D64 (MBLT, 2eVME, 2eSST) / D32 / D16 / D8 (SCT, BLT)

IPMI Controller

Hitachi controller for support of Intelligent Platform Management Interface.

Implementation according to VITA 38.

Temperature Sensors

Integrated sensors which measure the temperatures of the CPU and PCH dies and

in the SuperI/O device for board temperature. The CPU die sensors are software

readable in 1 °C increments from 0 °C to +105 °C, the PCH sensor from 59 °C to