
AN11001
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Application note
Rev. 1 — 7 March 2011
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AN11001
CBTL02042A switching application for mSATA, PCIe Mini-Card
Circuits in
and
show automatic hardware selecting the SEL pins on the
multiplexers utilizing an AND gate and an inverter, or a single 74LVC1G98. Logic is based
on pin 43 and pin 21 on the Mini-Card/mSATA connector. This detection logic can also be
implemented using a GPIO output from a processor based on the CARD_DET and SEL
signal status. However, this is beyond the scope of this design guideline, and will not be
discussed here.
To simplify the circuit diagrams, XSD pins on the multiplexers are also permanently tied to
ground disabling device shutdown function. One can utilize pin 21 on Mini-Card connector
and S1 or S7 pin on the SATA HDD connector to implement this shutdown feature on the
multiplexers as shown below.
6. Conclusion
mSATA and PCI Express Mini-Card are sharing the same physical connector type with
minor pin definition modification. Automatic card detection and signal multiplexing function
between SATA interface and PCI Express interface can be implemented using
CBTL02042A. PCB design should account for the insertion loss by the multiplexer, and
reduce the trace length accordingly.
Table 4.
Mini-Card/mSATA and SATA HDD device possible insertion combination
SATA HDD connector
None
SATA HDD
Mini-Card/mSATA
connector
None
possible
possible
Mini-Card
possible
possible
mSATA
possible
impossible
(mSATA active)
Table 5.
Multiplexer SEL pin logic table
CARD_DET signal state (pin 21)
SEL signal state (pin 43)
SEL pin on multiplexers
0
card inserted
0
Mini-Card
0
PCIe
Mini-Card
SATA
HDD
inverted
1
0
card inserted
1
mSATA
1
PCIe
X
SATA
Mini-Card
inverted
1
1
card absent
X (1)
card absent
0
PCIe
X
SATA
HDD
inverted
0
1
card absent
X (1)
card absent
0
PCIe
X
SATA
HDD
inverted
0
Fig 11. Multiplexer XSD signal implementation
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to XSD pins
R2
33 k
Ω
R3
33 k
Ω
V
DD
V
DD
pin 21 on Mini-Card connector
S1/S7 pin on HDD connector