CQ7-A30
CQ7-A30 - Rev. First Edition: 1.0 - Last Edition: 2.0 - Author: S.B. - Reviewed by G.G. Copyright © 2016 SECO S.r.l.
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2.1
Introduction
CQ7-A30 is a carrier board for Qseven
®
rel. 2.0 compliant modules, specifically designed to support and test the features included in the release 2.0 of the
specifications, including those introduced with the Errata to rel. 2.0 published by SGET consortium.
Qseven
®
is a form factor designed to minimize space consumption, since it integrates in only 70x70mm of space all core components of a common PC
architecture (CPU, RAM, Graphic, audio, etc.). All the functionalities are made available through a standardized card edge connector, from which all signals can be
taken and carried to the appropriate external connector in the carrier board and/or to other internal component, to implement more functionalities other than those
included in the standard Qseven
®
bus interface.
The connection to the Qseven
®
board is implemented through a standardized MXM connector, which is a proven high speed signal interface connector.
All the features on the CQ7-A30 board are implemented according to the Qseven
®
standard bus interface, thus the board is fully Qseven
®
Rel. 2.0 compliant and
compatible with Qseven
®
Spec. 2.0 modules. Furthermore, the board can take advantage of all possible features that can be offered by x86 and/or ARM
architectures on Qseven
®
modules.
The list of features that can effectively be used depends on the Qseven
®
module used on the Carrier Board.
CQ7-A30 board is specially designed for being an advanced development board, for skilled users who want to design their own carrier boards. Indeed, the
electrical schematics of the boards included in the Development Kit will be available for developers that begin testing with this board, and want to recycle portions
of it for their own-designed Carrier Boards, allowing thus a significant reduction of time for Hardware Development.
“
Recycling
”
of the schematic is also useful for Software Development, since SECO offers also the BSP and/or drivers for the Qseven
®
boards used with the
Development board. By using the same components in customer
’
s own design, a great spare in Software Development can be achieved.
The schematics of CQ7-A30 have also been used as a base for the writing of the
“
Qseven
®
Design Guide Version 2.0
”
. Indeed, this is the board that is indicated
as the Qseven V2.0 reference Carrier Board.
Both Windows (Embedded and standard versions) and Linux are supported.
All the materials is available through web-site http://www.seco.com/, where it is possible to find any kind of information needed, and is also possible to ask for help
of SECO
’
s Developers team to solve technical issues related to customer
’
s development.
