Kontron COMe-cTH6 - Manual (Page 10)

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COMe-cTH6 User’s Guide
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2.3 Understanding the COM Functionality
All Kontron COM Express® modules contain two COM Express connectors (X1A and X1B), each with two rows. The
primary connector rows are Row A and Row B (connector X1A). The secondary connector rows are Row C and Row D
(connector X1B). The COMe-cTH6 module uses the PICMG COM Express® pin-out Type 6 definition, which is a recent
addition to the PICMG COM Express standard and documented in Revision 2.0 of the PICMG specification. The Type 6
pin-out is based on Type 2 and also supports new features on the secondary connector. The key changes are:
» The PCI interface is no longer supported and the pins are used instead for digital display interfaces (DDI) and two
additional PCI Express lanes
» The IDE (PATA) parallel interface is no longer supported and the pins are used instead for additional transmit and
receive pairs for four USB 3.0 ports.
» Three dedicated DDI ports have been added. Ports 1, 2, and 3 can be configured individually for Display Port (DP),
HDMI, or DVI and port 1 can also be used for SDV0.
» Two optional two-wire RS232 serial ports have been added using pins formerly assigned to 12V signals.
The primary connector (Row A and Row B) on the COMe-cTH6 module features the following functionality:
» Analog VGA graphics
» Gigabit Ethernet LAN
» Serial ATA (SATA)
» PCI Express*
» USB 2.0 and USB 3.0
» Express card
» Wake
» Speaker
» Intel® High Definition Audio (HDA)
» LPC (Low Pin Count) bus
» TTL serial
» Watchdog timer (WDT)
» GPIO
» I 2 C
» Power button
» SPI (Serial Peripheral Interface) Bus
The secondary connector (Row C and Row D) supports the following buses and I/O:
» PEG x16 (the COMe-cTH6 is limited to 8 lanes, either the upper 8 or lower 8)
» PCI Express
» DDI
» DP/DVI/HDMI
» LVDS 18/24-bit single/dual channel
NOTE: For full descriptions of the COM Express Type 6 pin-outs, refer to the PICMG documentation.
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