Kontron 986LCD-M-mITX (BGA) - Manual (Page 39)

986LCD-M Family
KTD-N0837-B Public User Manual Date: 2012-04-17 Page 39 of 91
4.7 Serial ATA harddisk interface
The 986LCD-M boards have an intergrated SATA Host controller that supports independent DMA operation
on four ports and data transfer rates of up to 3.0Gb/s (300MB/s). The SATA controller supports AHCI mode
and has integrated RAID functionality with support for RAID modes 0, 1, 5 and 10 (Linux O/S only support for
RAID 0 and 1).
4.7.1 SATA Hard Disk Connector (SATA0, SATA1, SATA2, SATA3)
SATA:
PIN
Signal Type Ioh/Iol
Pull
U/D Note
Key
1 GND PWR - -
2 SATA* TX+
3 SATA* TX-
4 GND PWR - -
5 SATA* RX-
6 SATA* RX+
7 GND PWR - -
The signals used for the primary Serial ATA harddisk interface are the following:
Signal Description
SATA* RX+
SATA* RX-
Host transmitter differential signal pair
SATA* TX+
SATA* TX-
Host receiver differential signal pair
“*” specifies 0, 1, 2, and 3 depending on SATA port.
All of the above signals are compliant to [4].