HoneyComb AMD R8000 mini ITX Quick Start Guide

Introduction

The following quick start guide provides background information about the Honeycomb AMD R8000 products which use the Ryzen R8000 COM.

The guide will give a technical overview about the product and by the end of it you should be able to boot an operating system and begin testing your application.

Revision and Notes

Date

Owner

Revision

Notes

16 Jun 2024

1.0

Hardware Setup

Product Specifications

Honeycomb Ryzen V3000

I/Os

3 x USB 2.0 3 x USB 3.0 2x Mini-DPs 1x HDMI

Networking

2 x 2.5 GbE (Intel I226)

Processor

Hawk Point 8840U - 8 Cores Strix Point HX370 - 12 Cores

Memory & Storage

Up to 64GB DDR5 4800 MT/s 2x SATA interfaces M.2 NVME GEN 4.0 x4

Misc.

BMC Functionality PWM Fan header

Development and Debug interfaces

Micro USB

Power

ATX standard

Expansion card I/Os

PCIe x4 Gen 4.0

Temperature

Industrial: -45°C to 85°C

Dimensions

PCBA: 170 x 170mm

Block Diagram

Coming soon…

Visual features overview

Please see below the features overview of the HoneyComb AMD R8000 mini ITX

Software Setup

Cable setup and prerequisites

Here is what you will need to power up the board:

Linux or Windows PC
HoneyComb AMD R8000 mini ITX
ATX 60W+
Mini-USB to USB for console, the HoneyComb R8000 has an onboard FTDI chip.
IP router or IP switch

Booting the machine

Download & install images:

You can use the Ubuntu server installation instructions page or download Pre-installed images.

If using the Pre-installed image, flash it to a USB stick using the following commands:

gunzip <image_name.img.gz>
dd if=<image_name.img> of=/dev/sdx bs=1M status=progress; sync

NOTE: check the /dev/sdx device you need using the lsblk command

Booting to OS

Insert the USB stick to the device and power it on.

Wait for the device to boot.

Very first boot might take a while due to DDR training

SO-DIMM Modules

For some SO-DIMM modules that work on SolidRun hardware platforms, please refer to List of tested SO-DIMMs .

OS list

Ubuntu Console installation instructions

Fedora

Windows (1)

Buildroot A BuildRoot image can be build for x86 platform (ttyS4) should be enabled

FreeBSD (2) Console installation instructions

PFsense Console installation instructions

OPNsense Console installation instructions

(1) HoneyComb AMD R8000 can be used in headless mode with no displays connected, installation will require monitors to be connected to install Windows.

(2) As of JUL 7 2024 (FreeBSD 14.01) the AMD XGBE driver on FreeBSD does not fully support SFP, later versions will eventually have the driver fixed.