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Secondary parallel ata interface, Usb interfaces, Pci interface – Motorola ATCA-717 User Manual

Page 110: Serial ata interfaces, Serial rs232 interfaces, Lpc interface

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Devices’ Features and Data Paths

South Bridge

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Secondary Parallel ATA Interface

The secondary parallel ATA interface is connected to an on−board CompactFlash
connector which supports CompactFlash cards of type I and II. An inserted card runs in
true IDE mode and is master on the secondary parallel ATA interface.

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USB Interfaces

The South Bridge provides four USB interfaces. Two are routed to the blade

′s face plate

and two to the rear transition module. All interfaces are compliant to the USB 2.0
standard.

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PCI Interface

The South Bridge provides a 32−bit/33 MHz PCI interface that is compliant to the PCI 2.2
specification. Up to four external PCIbus master devices are supported and a 3.3V
signaling level is used.

Serial ATA Interfaces

The South Bridge provides two Serial Advanced Technology Attachment (SATA)
interfaces which are compliant to the SATA 1.0 specification and support a data transfer
rate of up to 1.5GByte/s. One interface is routed to the Zone 3 connector and is accessable
via an installed RTM. One interface is routed to an on−board SATA connector to which a
SATA hard disk can be connected.

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Serial RS232 Interfaces

The South Bridge provides two serial full−duplex RS232 interfaces. Supported baud rates
are: 600, 1200, 2400, 4800, 9600, 19200, 38400 and 115200 kb/s. Both serial interfaces are
+/− 15 KV ESD protected.

Both interfaces correspond to the blade

′s serial interface ports 1 and 3. Serial interface port

1 is routed via a zone 3 connector to an installed RTM. Serial interface port 3 is accessible
via an installed CMC module. The BIOS maps the serial interfaces ports to the desired
I/O addresses (COM ports) and interrupts.

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LPC Interface

The South Bridge provides a 4−bit wide Low Pin Count (LPC) interface running at 33
MHz. It has the following devices attached to it:

S Super I/O