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1.6.1. Kontron's Mezzanine Concept
This is Kontron's concept to expand the I/O capability of the board. It is built around two
connectors:
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Mezzanine connector handling IDE and floppy disk drive signals.
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Mezzanine connector handling a complete PCI signal set (primary bus)
including the REQ/GNT arbitration signal pair.
These two connectors represent an open door for future development of expansion and I/O
mezzanine cards.
A Mezzanine Card referred to as cMC and cMCB are available from Kontron.
1.6.2. PMC Concept
PCI Mezzanine Card (PMC) is a standard specification that allows PCI I/O devices to be
connected to the PCI bus. It conforms to the ANSI/IEEE P1386.1 specification that defines
Standard Physical and Environmental Layers for PMC devices.
The cPCI-MXS64GX features the PMC concept onboard to provide an extra method to
support the 32-bit I/O devices available on the market.
PMC devices connect directly to standard PMC connectors. A mechanical cutout (with its
EMI proof cap) is provided to allow integrated connectors and indicators to be available
directly on the front plate through PMC card.
1.6.3. CompactFlash Feature
The cPCI-MXS64GX board also supports standard CompactFlash disk through a
CompactFlash module.
CompactFlash disk is a method of storing and transferring data. It is supported on the board
as a standard IDE drive and connects to the secondary EIDE interface.
The CompactFlash drive can be set as a Master or Slave device and combined with any
standard hard disk drive by setting the jumper W3 (see Section 3.1, setting jumpers).
CompactFlash is installed on J18 connector. For more information on CompactFlash
installation and setups, please refer to Section 2.1 – CompactFlash Interface.
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