3 system relevant information, 4 board diagrams, 1 functional block diagram – Kontron AM5020 User Manual

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AM5020

Introduction

ID 1043-6198, Rev. 1.0

Page 1 - 5

P R E L I M I N A R Y

• Designed to be compliant with the following PICMG specifications:

• PICMG AMC.0 R2.0 Advanced Mezzanine Card Base Specification
• PICMG AMC.1 R2.0 PCI Express on AdvancedMC
• PICMG AMC.2 R1.0 Ethernet Advanced Mezzanine Card Specification
• PICMG AMC.3 R1.0 Advanced Mezzanine Card Specification for Storage
• PICMG MTCA.0 R1.0 Micro Telecommunications Computing Architecture Base Spec.
• PICMG MTCA.1 R1.0 Air Cooled Rugged MicroTCA Specification

1.3

System Relevant Information

The following system relevant information is general in nature but should still be considered
when developing applications using the AM5020.

1.4

Board Diagrams

The following diagrams provide additional information concerning board functionality and
component layout.

1.4.1

Functional Block Diagram

The following figure shows the block diagram of the AM5020.

Table 1-1:

System Relevant Information

SUBJECT

INFORMATION

Hardware Requirements

The AM5020 can be installed on any AMC-supporting carrier board or MicroTCA
backplane with the following AMC Card-edge connector port mapping:

Common Options Region ports 0-1:

Two Gigabit Ethernet SerDes ports

Common Options Region ports 2-3:

Two Serial ATA ports

Fat Pipes Region ports 4-11:

Two x4 or eight x1 PCI Express interface

Extended Options Region ports 12-13:

Two Serial ATA ports

Extended Options Region port 14:

One debug port

Extended Options Region port 15:

One serial port

Clock:

Bidirectional PCI Express reference clock, FCLKA

For further information on the AMC interconnection, refer to Chapter 2.11, “AMC
Interconnection”.

PCI Express Configuration

The AM5020 only supports the PCI Express root complex configuration; non-
transparent bridge functionality is not supported.

Operating Systems

The board is offered with various Board Support Packages including Windows and
Linux operating systems. For further information concerning the operating sys-
tems available for the AM5020, please contact Kontron.

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