Fitlet1 FACET Cards

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Concept

FACET Cards are implemented with internal T-shaped extension board. The extension board is connected to already available motherboard’s mini PCI Express slot, featuring standard PC interfaces such as PCIe, USB2, SMBus and LPC Bus.

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FACET Card Electrical Interface

FACET Card interface based on regular mini PCI Express interface featuring extended signals and functionality, as legacy LPC Bus interface and additional PCI Express lanes.

fitlet mini PCI Express edge connector pinout

fitlet mini PCI Express edge connector
Pin # Pin Name Signal Description Pin # Pin Name Signal Description
1 WAKE# Open drain, active low signal driven low by a mini PCIe card to reactivate the PCIe link 2 3.3Vaux 3.3V power rail
3 PERn2 PCI Express Gen2 differential receive pair 2 4 GND Ground connection
5 PERp2 6 1.5V 1.5V power rail
7 CLKREQ# Clock request - open drain, active low driven by mini PCIe card to request PCIe reference clock 8 LAD0 LPC Bus Data signals
9 GND Ground connection 10 LAD1
11 REFCLK- Reference clock used to assist the synchronization of PCI Express interface timing circuits 12 LAD2
13 REFCLK+ 14 LAD3
15 GND Ground connection 16 LFRAME# LPC Bus frame signal. Active Low
Mechanical Notch Key
17 PETn2 PCI Express Gen2 differential receive pair 2 18 GND Ground connection
19 PETp2 20 W_DISABLE# Active low signal when asserted by the system disable radio operation. Reserved for future use.
21 GND Ground connection 22 PERST# Asserted when power is switched off and also can be used by the system to force HW reset
23 PERn0 PCI Express differential receive pair 24 3.3Vaux 3.3V power rail
25 PERp0 26 GND Ground connection
27 GND Ground connection 28 1.5V 1.5V power rail
29 GND Ground connection 30 SMB_CLK Optional SMBus two-wire interface for Host/mini PCIe module communication
31 PETn0 PCI Express differential transmit pair 32 SMB_DATA
33 PETp0 34 GND Ground connection
35 GND Ground connection 36 USB_D- USB Host Interface
37 LPC_CLK0 LPC Bus clock 38 USB_D+
39 3.3Vaux 3.3V power rail 40 GND Ground connection
41 3.3Vaux 3.3V power rail 42 LED_WWAN# / LPC_SMI# Active low output signals are provided to allow status indications to users via system provided LEDs (or LPC Bus control signals)
43 PETn1 PCI Express Gen2 differential transmit pair 1 44 LED_WLAN# / LPC_PME#
45 PETp1 46 LED_WPAN# / SERIRQ
47 LPC_RST# LPC Bus Reset signal. Active Low 48 1.5V 1.5V power rail
49 PERn1 PCI Express Gen2 differential receive pair 1 50 GND Ground connection
51 PERp1 52 3.3Vaux 3.3V power rail


FACET Card Mechanical Interface

FACET interface based on a standard mini PCI express connection, both electrical and mechanical, therefore standard layout guidelines apply for FACET mechanical design. PCB shape of custom FACET derived from fitlet-X PCB design, mechanical stack-up and other mechanical constraints, shown in the DXF file below.

FACET LAN DXF file FACET LAN DXF file.png


FACET PCB design should meet mini PCI Express design guidelines in terms of edge connector design (hard gold fingers), PCB thickness, other parameters, and follow general recommendations described in PCI express mini card electromechanical specification 1.2.


Extended Functionality

PCI Express Interface Fitlet-X SoC provides several PCI Express Root Ports, supporting the PCI Express Base Specification, Revision 2.0. Each Root Port lane supports up to 5 Gbps bandwidth in each direction (10 Gbps concurrent). FACET PCI Express interface consist of 3x PCI Express gen2.0 lanes.

LPC Bus Interface The Low Pin Count (LPC) bus interface is a cost-efficient, low-speed interface designed to support low-speed legacy (ISA, X-bus) devices. The LPC interface essentially eliminates the need of ISA and X-bus in the system. Here the ISA bus is internal to SoC and is used for connecting to the legacy Direct Memory Access (DMA) logic. The LPC host controller is integrated into the SoC. It connects to the internal A-Link bus on one side and the LPC and Serial Peripheral Interface (SPI) buses on the other side. The ISA interface is only used for legacy DMA operation. Examples of LPC devices include Super I/O (disk controller, keyboard controller), BIOS RAM, audio, Trusted Platform Module (TPM), and system management controller. LPC host controller has the A-Link bus on one side and the LPC bus on the other. The host controller supports memory and I/O read/write, DMA read/write, and bus master memory I/O read/write. It supports up to two bus masters and seven DMA channels