Padmelon board

Specs (with Merlin Falcon SOC)

  • Two 260-pin DDR4 SO-DIMM slots, 1.2V DDR4-1333/1600/1866/2133 SO-DIMMs Supports 4GB, 8GB and 16GB DDR4 unbuffered ECC (Merlin Falcon)SO-DIMMs
  • Can use Prairie Falcon, Brown Falcon, Merlin Falcon, though coreboot code is specific for Merlin Falcon SOC. Some specs will change if not using Merlin Falcon.
  • One half mini PCI-Express slot on back side of mainboard
  • One PCI Express® 3.0 x8 slot
  • Two SATA3 ports with 6Gb/s data transfer rate
  • Two USB 2.0 ports at rear panel
  • Two USB 3.0 ports at rear panel
  • Dual Gigabit Ethernet from Realtek RTL8111F Gigabit controller
  • 6-channel High-Definition audio from Realtek ALC662 codec
  • One soldered down SPI flash with dediprog header

Mainboard

mainboard

Three items are marked in this picture

  1. dediprog header
  2. memory dimms, address 0xA0 and 0xA4
  3. SATA cables connected to motherboard

Back panel

back panel

  • The lower serial port is UART A (debug serial)

Flashing coreboot

+---------------------+--------------------+
| Type                | Value              |
+=====================+====================+
| Socketed flash      | no                 |
+---------------------+--------------------+
| Model               | Macronix MX256435E |
+---------------------+--------------------+
| Size                | 8 MiB              |
+---------------------+--------------------+
| Flash programming   | dediprog header    |
+---------------------+--------------------+
| Package             | SOIC-8             |
+---------------------+--------------------+
| Write protection    | No                 |
+---------------------+--------------------+

Technology

+---------------+------------------------------+
| Fan control   | Using fintek F81803A         |
+---------------+------------------------------+
| CPU           | Merlin Falcon (see reference)|
+---------------+------------------------------+

Description of pictures within this document

+----------------------------+----------------------------------------+
|padmelon.jpg                | Motherboard with components identified |
+----------------------------+----------------------------------------+
|padmelon_io.jpg             | Back panel picture                     |
+----------------------------+----------------------------------------+

Reference

Merlin Falcon BKDG