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Chapter 1: Introduction
Note:
This is a general block diagram and may not exactly represent the features on
your motherboard. See the previous pages for the actual specifications of your moth-
erboard.
Figure 1-3.
System Block Diagram
DDR3
NCSI
VGA
LAN
SPI
SPI
FLASH
SPI
SPI
PE [5]
PE [0..3]
SATA Gen3
[0..3]
SATA Gen3
[4..7]
sSATA Gen3
[0..3]
USB2.0
[8,9,10,12,13]
USB3.0
[1, 2, 3, 4, 6]
DMI
sSATA Gen3 [4, 5]
USB2.0 [6,7]
LPC/eSPI
FLASH
TPM
Header
UART
PHY
RTL8211F
IPMI LAN
RJ45
COM1
PE
LPC/eSPI
SPI
USB
HWM
BMC
AST2500
PCH
DDR4
VGA
64MB
BMC
32MB
BIOS
MUX
WIO
Ultra IO
JS1
I-SATA0~3
Lower
Upper
P2_NVMe1
P2_NVMe1
P2_NVMe1
P2_NVMe1
Port A
Port B
Port B
Port C
Port C
DDR4 DIMM
DDR4 DIMM
DDR4 DIMM
DDR4 DIMM
DDR4 DIMM
DDR4 DIMM
DDR4 DIMM
DDR4 DIMM
DDR4 DIMM
DDR4 DIMM
DDR4 DIMM
DDR4 DIMM
NCSI
Lower
Upper
JS2
I-SATA4~7
S-SA
TA5
S-SA
TA4
NIC
Port A
0~7
Port B
0~7
Port B
8~15
Port C
0~10
Port C
11~15
x4
x8
x4
x4
x4
x4
x4
x8
x8
x8
x8 3bit
5bit
x8
x4
x4
x8 + x8
x16
#2
#1
#2
#1
#2
PE1 PE2 PE3 UPI2 UPI1 UPI0
PE1
DMI
PE2 PE3 UPI2 UPI1 UPI0
#1
#2
#2
#1
#1
#2
#1
#2
#1
#2
#1
#2
#1
#2
#1
#2
#1
#2
#1
M
L
K
G
H
J
A
B
C
D
HSSI
CPU1
Socket ID 01
HSSI
CPU0
Socket ID 00
10.4G/11.2G T/s
32GB/s
8GB/s
32GB/s
32GB/s
32GB/s
32GB/s
32GB/s
UPI
UPI
Polarity Inversion
10.4G/11.2G T/s
Polarity Inversion
REAR
TYPE-A FRONT
port 0,1
port 3
port 3
