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Date: 2023-12-21
Last Updated: 2024-03-01

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titlePRODUCT INFORMATION

PRODUCT INFORMATION
Arm SystemReady SR-compliant SOAFEE’s reference development platform based on Ampere Altra SoC

System configuration:

  • COM-HPC Ampere Altra server type module with Ampere Altra 32-core SoC

  • COM-HPC Server Base carrier board

  • 32 GB 3200MHz DDR4 ECC Reg

  • 128 GB NVMe M.2 storage

  •  1x GbE + 4x 10GbE LAN ports (optional)

  •  64x PCIe Gen4 lanes (3 x16, 2 x4 and 2 M.2 slots)

  •  Liquid cooling assembly (optional)

  • 750 Watt power supply

  • Tower enclosure

Specifications:

Ampere Altra SoC (Arm Neoverse N1 based architecture), 32 Arm v8.2 64-bit cores up to 1.7GHz, Arm SystemReady SR, 32GB DDR4 memory, 128GB NVMe storage, 64x PCIe Gen4 lanes (3 x16 available), 4x 10GbE (optional) and 1x GbE LAN, 4x USB 3.0/2.0 and 2x USB 3.0 [rear I/O], 2x USB 3.0 [front panel], open source EDKII, Yocto Linux OS support

  • https://www.ipi.wiki/pages/com-hpc-altra

  • Product flier/datasheet

  • View file
    nameAltra_Platform_HW_Design_Specification_v1.00_20210120.pdf

  • View file
    nameCOM-HPC-ALT_50M-00115-1000_01_manual_20230110.pdf

  • View file
    nameCOM-HPC_ALT-datasheet-20230816.pdf

  • View file
    nameOpenOCD_SW_SOP_A2_01.pptx
    View file
    nameOpenOCD_SW_SOP_A2_01.pdf

GRAPHICS

PHYSICAL OUTPUT

The AVA contains an Aspeed VGA output, and some display managers (gdm3 confirmed) choose it by default, even if it’s not connect and even though HDMI is available. I could not find any config setting or work around to make gdm3 ignore the VGA output except for disabling the ast kernel module:

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