Karbon K700 Technical Resources

Manual and Documents

K700 Spec Sheet & Dimensional Drawings

K700 Product Manual

K700 BIOS Manual

Drivers

K700 Windows 11 Drivers

K700 Windows 10 Drivers

10Gbe Modbay LAN expansion drivers

BIOS Updates

Version	Link
Z01-0001A040	BIOS Update (A040)

Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ)

How do I enable automotive/ignition timings?

The K700 contains a microcontroller which among other things, controls the timings. You can read more on the controller here: https://support.onlogic.com/onlogic-systems/rugged/karbon-series/karbon-series-using-the-serial-interface

How do I configure RAID?

How to set up RAID on the Karbon 700 and Helix series

What PoE standards does the optional PoE module support?

802.3at – up to 25.5 watts per port

How do I enable auto power on?

Enter the BIOS and go to Advanced > PCH-IO Configuration > Auto Power-On. See below for a step by step guide.

What orientation is a SIM card inserted?

Connecting the power supply

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System Features

Enabling Auto Power On

Auto power on will automatically turn on the K700 after power failure. This feature can be enabled in the BIOS.

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Ignition Sensing

The Karbon series come with several advanced features that help you make the most out of your applications. One of these features is ignition sensing, a feature that allows you to control your Karbon unit through your vehicle.

So how exactly does ignition sensing work and how is it useful to you?

Ignition sensing on the Karbon series works such that the unit can be powered on or off depending on whether the vehicle itself is on or off. For example, if the vehicle ignition is turned on, the PC unit will power on. Likewise, when ignition is turned off, the PC unit will power off. This process of events can be seen in the timeline below:

The timeline of events diagram shows ignition power state and the PC power state. Going from left to right, you can see that when the ignition power state is “On” (or the vehicle is turned on), the PC power state enters a PC “boot” time state where the PC boots on. This state lasts only a few seconds, before entering the PC power “on” state, meaning the PC unit is turned on.

When the ignition power state is “Off” (or the vehicle is turned off), the PC power state enters a “countdown active” delay before turning off completely. This delay before the PC unit turns off can be adjusted through OnLogic’s microcontroller (MCU) and can range from seconds to hours.

Ignition Sensing is found on the 5-pin power input terminal block for Karbon 700, or the 3-pin power input for Karbon 300, pictured below, where pin 1 is for ignition power on/off.

Ignition timing delays can be modified through serial commands to the MCU using python. The Karbon series come with their own module for interfacing with hardware devices called Pykarbon. To learn about how to use serial commands to change your timing delays on ignition, visit OnLogic’s github page on the Pykarbon module.

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Enabling Secure Boot

Secure boot is enabled through the “Front Page” menu.

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CAN Bus

CANbus FAQs

The CAN bus on the Karbon series computers can be modified to fit your applications. Here are some of the frequently asked questions regarding the CAN bus feature.

Getting started

To get started with the basics of communication with the Karbon K300 and K700 units, the command line utility can be downloaded for Linux and Windows systems. 
This utility will allow you to work the the Microcontroller which is responsible for the native CAN Bus functionality on the unit. No additional drivers need to be installed to work with the native CAN bus on the system. Although additional python libraries will be needed if you wish to develop python scripts to utilize the native CAN Bus

For this tutorial example we use a K300 running Windows 10 IoT and a K300 running Ubuntu 20.04 with a cable connecting the two units via the CAN Bus port located on the side of the chassis.

The K300 and K700’s internal CAN device should be attached directly to a CAN Bus, but features no internal termination. Because of this, for proper operation, it may be required to implement an external termination resistor. This resistor should match the nominal impedance of the cable; typically 120Ω, which complies with ISO 11898.

Using the Microcontroller CLI utility to send CAN Messages

Sending CAN messages from Windows to Linux system

After downloading and extracting the Windows directory from the Microcontroller Utility, open command prompt and navigate to the directory containing the Karbon.exe CLI utility. From here you can use the command karbon.exe raw devices to query which Virtual COM port in the OS is handling CAN messaging.

We can then use PuTTY to open the CAN interface port and now the PuTTY terminal is listening to the CAN interface of the Microcontroller.

To prep a Linux system to receive these messages, we can extract the Karbon MCU utility’s Linux directory and navigate to it. Running the Karbon utility with sudo, we can send normal CAN Frames over the systems CAN Bus using the sudo ./karbon op can-message -i 123 -d 11223344 command

The Windows machine’s PuTTY Window will receive and present the sent CAN message

Sending CAN messages from Linux to Windows system

The Linux Microcontroller CLI utility can report which /dev/ address is handling CAN communication with the command sudo ./karbon raw devices

The CAN interface can be opened with an elevated PuTTY command to listen for CAN messages.

On the Windows system using an elevated command prompt, CAN messages can be sent utilizing the karbon.exe op can-message -i 123 -d 11223344 command.

The CAN message will show up on the Linux system’s PuTTY window

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Microcontroller Utility

The can subcommand supports interfacing with and controlling the onboard CAN device. This includes sending and receiving CAN messages and setting the baudrate of the CAN Bus. This module requires the CAN device be configured standard operational mode. The mode of the CAN device is controlled by the can-mode configuration parameter.

The CAN device does not support internal termination, and should be externally terminated when connected to a CAN bus.

Using SLCAN

The K300 and K700 platforms also support processing CAN commands using an slcan compliant parser. To get up and running with slcan on a K300 or K700 running Ubuntu, start by installing can-utils:

$ sudo apt install can-utils

Then detect and set up the system, for example:

slcan_setup.sh

#! /bin/bash

# ASCII Command vs CAN Bitrate
# s0 --- s1 --- s2 --- s3 --- s4 --- s5 --- s6 --- s7 --- s8
# 10     20     50     100    125    250    500    800    1000  Kbits/s
BAUD=8

# Name of slcan device to attach
DEV=can0


# Detect correct port for device interfaces
TERM_PORT=$(ls -l /dev/serial/by-id/ | grep 1fc9_00a3 | sed 's/.*\///g' | awk '{if(NR==2) print $0}')
CANB_PORT=$(ls -l /dev/serial/by-id/ | grep 1fc9_00a3 | sed 's/.*\///g' | awk '{if(NR==1) print $0}')

# Start or stop the service
while getopts ":ks" opt; do
    case $opt in
        k)
            # Stop the SLCAN service and turn off the can device
            echo "Shutting down can interface..."
            sudo ifconfig $DEV down 2> /dev/null
            sudo pkill slcand

            sudo slcand -c /dev/"$CANB_PORT"
            sudo pkill slcand
            ;;
        s)
            # Open the can device, and start the slcan service.
            echo "Terminal interface on: $TERM_PORT"
            echo "CAN Bus  interface on: $CANB_PORT"

            # Set the mode to slcan
            echo -ne "set can-mode slcan" > /dev/$TERM_PORT

            echo "Attaching slcan device..."

            # Attach to the port with slcand
            sudo slcand -s$BAUD -o /dev/"$CANB_PORT" $DEV

            # Give interface time to come up
            sleep .25

            # Enable the inteface
            sudo ifconfig $DEV up
            sudo ifconfig $DEV txqueuelen 1000

            echo "Interface is set up."
            ;;
        \?)
            echo "Invalid option: -$OPTARG" >&2
            exit 1
            ;;
        :)
            echo "Option -$OPTARG requires an argument." >&2
            exit 1
            ;;
    esac
done

The system is now ready to send and receive can messages using can-utils:

$ cansend can0 123#11223344
$ candump can0

By default, the can subcommand will first check the operational mode before sending a command. Because this is slower than just sending or receiving can messages, and requires access to the terminal port, it can disabled with the --nocheck flag.

Don’t check can mode

$ karbon can -n <COMMAND>

Additionally all can operations support setting the baudrate before processing the command. This requires access to the terminal serial interface, and does not change the baudrate that will be loaded at system boot. If no baudrate is specified, the last transmitted baudrate will continue to be used.

Specify can baudrate

$ karbon can -b 500 <COMMAND>

The baudrate is specified in Kbits/s, and supports setting rates from 100-1000.

Can Commands

The Microcontroller CLI supports sending and receiving can messages with two commands: send and dump.

Send

The send command supports sending standard, extended, and remote frames. All messages require an id. Standard and extended frames also require data. Standard frames are sent by default, while extended and remote frames can be sent by using the corresponding flag.

Usage

$ karbon can send [FLAGS] [OPTIONS] <identifier> [data]

Argument	Description	Type
data	The data to be transmitted, represented as an up-to eight byte hex string. Passed data will be checked for validity before transmission. This argument is required, except when sending remote request frames (-r).Example$ karbon can send 123 1122334455667788	arg
identifier	The ‘id’ of the can frame. Should be specified as hex string from 1-7FF for standard frames, and 1-1FFFFFFF for extended frames.Lower numbered frames will have priority during message arbitration, and by default, the id will be interpreted as a standard frame id.Validity checking will be performed against the hex string and id range.	arg
extended	Send message in extended frame format. Supports larger id range.Example$ karbon can send -e 999 11223344	flag
length	Length of data to be transmitted. If not specified, the data length will be automatically determined.Example$ karbon can send -l 3 123 112233	opt
remote	Send a remote frame. When specified, data is not required.Example$ karbon can send -r 123	flag

Validity Checking

The send command’s id and data arguments are specified as strings, and parsed into hexadecimal. Because of this, validity checking is performed against the specified ID and data, before the command is passed on to the microcontroller. In psuedo-code the checks performed are as follows:

Additionally, it is acceptable to specify id or data with a leading 0x, which will simply be trimmed before data validation is performed.

Dump

The dump command supports reporting all received CAN messages. Messages may be filtered by id, and the time between frames can be recorded.

By default, the messages will be formatted and printed to stdout, but the data can also be reported in csv format and/or saved to file.

For instance, to print all messages to the terminal along with their time delta, run:

$ karbon can dump -d

Or to log only messages with a matching id to messages.csv, run:

$ karbon can dump -d -c -f 123 7FF -- messages.csv

Usage

karbon can dump [FLAGS] [OPTIONS] [--] [output]

Argument	Description	Type
csv	Format the output as a csv. Does not redirect output from stdout. Header will be included as id,len,data or as id,len,data,delta.Example$ karbon can dump -c id,len,data 123,4,11223344	flag
delta	Log the time delta between frames. Times will be reported as floating point seconds; 1.001 is 1001 milliseconds.Time delta is calculated at the host, and should not be considered a perfect representation of time between frames.Example$ karbon can dump -d id [l] data delta 123 [4] 11223344 2.907689 7FF [4] ABCD 3.386151 123 [4] 11223344 6.232194 00000999 [8] 1122334455667788 0.000519	flag
filter	A list of CAN frame identifiers to match received messages against. All other messages will be discarded.ImportantExtended IDs should be specified in their full form, including leading zeroes. E.g. 00000999 not 999.Example$ karbon can dump -f 123 1FFFFFFF 00000999 3AA	opt
output	The output location for printing CAN frames. Defaults to stdout when not specified.	arg

Disassembly Instructions

K700-SE

Required tools: Torx T10 Driver, P2 Phillips Driver

Opening the K700 does not void the manufacturer’s warranty. However, some precautions are necessary to avoid damaging the unit.

• Perform this disassembly in an area free of static discharge
• Before beginning, touch a grounded metal surface to discharge your body of static electricity

1. Remove the 6x case screws from the sides of the K700 and lift away the bottom cover.

2. Pull the metal shroud upward out of the case. Tip: grab it by the metal tabs.

The motherboard is now accessible. The figure below details the different thermal pads required from add-on components.

K700-X2

Required tools: Torx T10 Driver, P2 Phillips Driver

Opening the K700 does not void the manufacturer’s warranty. However, some precautions are necessary to avoid damaging the unit.

• Perform this disassembly in an area free of static discharge
• Before beginning, touch a grounded metal surface to discharge your body of static electricity

The motherboard is now accessible. The figure below details the different thermal pads required from add-on components.

Reassembly

Troubleshooting

Clearing the CMOS

If the K700 fails to power on or otherwise function, clearing the CMOS may help restore it to a working state. The CMOS must be reset via this method – removing the battery will not work due to the supercap feature.

• Unplug the system from all power and peripherals and perform the disassembly steps above.
• Locate the BIOS_DFLT jumper

• Short the two pins for 30 seconds with a conductive object such as a screwdriver

• The CMOS is now clear. Reassemble and power on the unit. It may reboot several times before displaying video.
• If the unit still fails to function, contact technical support.

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Resetting the MCU (Microcontroller)

The MCU is responsible for many of the basic functions of the K700. Resetting it can resolve video and boot issues.

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Once you’ve accessed the BIOS, you can find the Fast Boot setting under the Boot tab.

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PCIe card not detected properly

Older PCIe cards may require the speed to be set manually. This is recommended for a Gen1 or Gen2 card. 3.0 cards should work out of the box.

Manually setting the PCI-E generation

• Power on the unit and immediately press the Del key a few times to access the Front Page
• Enter the Setup Utility

• In the Advanced tab, open the System Agent (SA) Configuration

• Change all 3 PEG Link Speed options to Gen1 or Gen2 to match your card.

• Press F10 to save and exit

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Installation of Parts

Din Mounting Kit Assembly

MTW106 & MTD103

External Fan

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Installing the PoE module

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