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KPXI-CON-900-01 Rev. A / January 2007
Section 1: Introduction
KPXI System Controller User’s Manual
Ethernet interfaces
The Model KPXI-CON controller supports an Intel 82545EM Gigabit Ethernet controller. It
integrates MAC and PHY functions into a single chip to provide a standard IEEE 802.3 Ethernet
interface for 10/100/1000BASE-T applications. The controller provides a 64-bit wide interface
compliant with PCI 2.3 and PCI-X 1.0a specifications. The Ethernet interface is routed to an RJ45
port with activity/speed LEDs.
Display interfaces
The Intel
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855GME GMCH chip has dual independent display pipes which can support concurrent
or simultaneous display on each display device. The 350MHz integrated 24bit RAMDAC supports
analog display pixel resolution up to 1600x1200 at 85Hz and 2048x1536 at 75Hz.
Universal Serial Bus (USB)
The Model KPXI-CON controller supports three USB 2.0 serial ports. Ports 1 and 2 are on the front
panel, port 3 is used as a USB-to-CF or USB-to-IDE adaptor to support a Compact Flash Type II
socket on the front panel or a 2.5” IDE HDD. Additional ports can be added through the use of an
external USB hub. USB allows for the easy addition of peripherals such as mouse, keyboard,
speakers, etc. Transfer rates of up to 480Mb/s are supported. High-speed connections require
shielded cables. The Model KPXI-CON controller provides each USB port 0.5A at 5V to power
peripherals and each USB port is protected by a power distribution switch (0.5A rating allows for
inrush currents).
Hot-swappable CF interface
An external CompactFlash socket is available on the Model KPXI-CON controller front panel. The
external CompactFlash interface provides Plug and Play features and is also hot swappable.
Therefore, a CompactFlash card can be used as a replacement for floppy disks and can also
provide very large storage capability (up to 1GB). It is also possible to set this CF interface as a
boot device by selecting boot from USB in the BIOS menu. For information on changing BIOS
settings see
. Note that drivers are needed for the external CompactFlash interface.
Serial I/O
The Model KPXI-CON controller provides support for two 16C550 UART compatible COM ports.
COM1 and COM2 are accessible from the front faceplate through DB-9 connectors.
IEEE-1284 parallel port/printer interface
The parallel I/O interface signals are routed to the DB-25 connector on the front faceplate. This
port supports the full IEEE-1284 specification and provides a basic printer interface. The BIOS will
initialize the parallel port as LPT1 with an ISA I/O base address of 378h. This default configuration
also assigns the parallel port to IRQ7. The printer interface mode (Normal, Extended, EPP, or
ECP) is selectable through the BIOS menu. For information on changing BIOS settings see
PXI trigger I/O port
The Model KPXI-CON System Controller provides one PXI trigger I/O port on the front panel for
advanced PXI trigger functionality. The TRIG I/O is the software-controlled trigger connection for
routing PXI triggers to or from the backplane trigger bus. All trigger lines are compatibility with TTL
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