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Bus Signals |
Capacity & Usage |
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PCI Express |
Up to 22 lanes for PCI Express devices. Can provide additional I/O expansion via FPGA and Sealevel IP. |
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PEG / SDVO |
PCI Express Graphics supporting up to 16 lanes dedicated to video; or Serial Display Video Out via a dedicated I2C channel. Can provide HDMI, DVI and DisplayPort interfaces. |
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PCI |
A single 32-bit port 33/66MHz interface for PCI devices. |
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SATA |
Up to four SATA channels that support 150 – 300Mb transfer. |
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IDE |
A single Parallel ATA100 (PATA) interface for mass storage devices. |
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LAN |
A single 10/100/1000 Base-T Gigabit Ethernet port. Carrier board can include additional LAN ports via PCI Express. |
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USB |
Up to 8 USB 2.0 ports. Can provide additional USB ports on carrier board via USB hub chips. |
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LPC |
Low Pin Count Bus for legacy I/O expansion. Ideal for adding serial, parallel, floppy, keyboard and mouse via Super I/O controller. |
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AC'97 / HDA |
Audio Codec 1997 specification; or High Definition Audio for 16-bit stereo audio output. |
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Speaker Out |
A single PC-AT speaker signal for system beeps and chirps. |
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VGA |
A single analog video output via dedicated DDC. Resolution dependent upon embedded graphics capability of COM Express module. Can provide additional VGA interfaces on carrier board via PCI Express. |
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LVDS |
Low Voltage Differential Signaling with dual-channel interface for very high bandwidth displays. |
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TV Out |
For NTSC/PAL standard video output. Supports Component, S-Video, or Composite video interfaces. |
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I2C |
Inter-Integrated Circuit. A single dedicated I2C channel for low speed system communications. |
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SMBus |
Generic processor interface via I2C for System Management Bus. |
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GPIO |
8-bits of General Purpose I/O for software configurable interfaces. |
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ExpressCard |
Two ExpressCard interfaces for mobile computing and hot-swappable peripheral cards. |
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Watchdog |
A single watchdog timer for system reset logic and recovery. |