HoneyComb AMD R8000 mini ITX Quick Start Guide

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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

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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

OS
	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.

Documentation

	File	Modified
Schematics and Assy Files	amd-mitx-cex6-1.0.0.pdf AMD-MITX-CEX6-Assy.zip	07-JAN-2026
Mechanical files	AMD-MITX-CEX6-dxf.zip AMD-MITX-CEX6-STEP.zip	07-JAN-2026