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User Guide • PC7-FESTIVAL • CompactPCI® PlusIO CPU Board
Universal Serial Bus (USB)
The PC7-FESTIVAL is provided with fourteen USB ports. All of them are USB 2.0 capable, but six
ports are also supporting the USB 3.0 SuperSpeed standard. Two USB 3.0 interfaces are routed to
front panel connectors and one is connected to P-HSE1 interface.
The USB 2.0 interfaces are distributed to the front panel (two ports), two to the high speed
expansion connector P-HSE1, and four ports are available across the backplane connectors for
CompactPCI® J2.
The front panel USB connectors can source a minimum of 1.5A/5V each, over-current protected
by two electronic switches. Protection for the USB ports on the expansion interface P-HSE1 and on
the CompactPCI® connectors is located on expansion boards and the boards on the CompactPCI®
backplane respective. The USB xHCI controllers handling the USB port operation at SuperSpeed,
high-speed, full-speed and low-speed are integrated into the CM238 PCH.
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