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Introduction
AM4140
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ID 1046-4973, Rev. 1.0
P R E L I M I N A R Y
The AM4140 is offered with various Board Support Packages such as VxWorks and Linux.
Please contact Kontron for further information concerning the operation of the AM4140 with
other operating systems.
1.2
Board-Specific Information
Due to the outstanding features of the AM4140, such as superior processing power and flexible
interconnect topologies, this AMC board provides a highly scalable solution not only for a wide
range of telecom and data network applications, but also for several highly integrated industrial
environment applications with solid mechanical interfacing.
Some of the AM4140's outstanding features are:
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Support for the following processors:
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Freescale™ QorIQ™ P4080 processor, 1.5 GHz, 800 MHz platform frequency
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Freescale™ QorIQ™ P4080 processor, 1.2 GHz, 600 MHz platform frequency
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Freescale™ QorIQ™ P4040 processor, 1.5 GHz, 800 MHz platform frequency
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Freescale™ QorIQ™ P4040 processor, 1.2 GHz, 600 MHz platform frequency
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Up to 8 GB DDR3 SDRAM memory with ECC running at up to 1300 MHz
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AMC interconnection:
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Common Options Region: up to two Gigabit SerDes connections
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Fat Pipes Region: 8 lanes configurable for PCI Express, Serial RapidIO, Gigabit Ether-
net SerDes or XAUI (10 Gigabit Ethernet) connections
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Extended Options Region: serial port and debug port
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Bidirectional PCI Express reference clock (FCLKA)
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Full hot swap support
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NAND flash controller
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One serial port on front I/O (RS-232)
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Up to two Gigabit Ethernet ports on front I/O
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Two SPI flash chips for the U-Boot bootloader
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One SPI flash chip for operating system use
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Dedicated IPMI Module Management Controller (MMC) with external MMC firmware flash
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Watchdog timer
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Multiple interfaces for debugging and manufacturing purposes
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Four bicolor User-Specific LEDs (providing debugging information, etc.)
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One onboard DIP switch (for selecting the SPI boot flashes, overwriting E-Keying, etc.)
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microSDHC socket
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Standard temperature range: -5°C to + 55°C
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Passive heat sink solution (system airflow required)
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Single Mid-size AMC module
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Denx U-Boot bootloader
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Designed to be compliant with the following specifications:
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PICMG® AMC.0 R2.0, Advanced Mezzanine Card Specification
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PICMG® AMC.1 R2.0, PCI Express™ on AdvancedMC™
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PICMG® AMC.2 R1.0, Ethernet Advanced Mezzanine Card Specification
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PICMG® AMC.4 R1.0, Serial RapidIO on AdvancedMC™ Specification
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PICMG® MTCA.0 R1.0 Micro Telecommunications Computing Architecture Base
Specification
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IPMI - Intelligent Platform Management Interface Specification, v2.0, R1.0