# Pademelon 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

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

- 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

pademelon.jpg | Motherboard with components identified
pademelon_io.jpg | Back panel picture

## Reference

Merlin Falcon BKDG