Express-BASE 6 R3.1 Carrier Board

Industrial Prototyping / Reference carrier for off-the-shelf COM Express Type 6 Module

This page aims to highlight the capabilities of the COM Express Type 6 R3.1 Carrier Board. For a more comprehensive information, please refer to its user manual.

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Specifications

Core Module Interface

  • PICMG COM Express Revision 3.1
  • Support R3.1 Type 6 modules Basic / Compact size

Dimension

  • 305 mm x 244 mm (ATX)

Expansion Busses

  • 1x PCI Express x16 slot
  • 1x PCI Express x4 slot (PCIe lane 0-3)
  • 4x PCI Express x1 slot (PCIe lane 4, 5, 6, 7)

POST LEDs

  • Onboard diagnostics for BIOS POST code data on LPC bus

Secondary BIOS

  • Onboard socket for secondary SPI flash

COM Express Connectors

  • Two x 220-pin (8mm height)

HDMI

  • HDMI vertical connector on Rear I/O (DDI 3)

USB4

  • 2x USB4 at Type C on Rear I/O*

VGA

  • DB15 on Rear I/O*

Flat Panel

  • 34-pin header LVDS (build option for eDP*)

Audio

  • Mic/Line-in/Line-out on Rear I/O

  • S/PDIF on Rear I/O

SATA

  • 4x SATA (with power for SATA device)

USB

  • 4x USB 3.x/2.0/1.1 Type A on Rear I/O

  • 2x USB 2.0/1.1 Type A on Rear I/O

  • 2x USB 2.0/1.1 at 9-pin header for front panel

LAN

  • 2500/1000/100/10BASE-T compatible RJ45 on Rear I/O

  • GPIO/SD8-pin header GPIO, SD card slot*

Serial Port

  • 1x DB-9 (from Super I/O) on Rear I/O

  • 3x 10-pin header

FAN

  • 1x 4-pin FAN connector (from COMe module)

  • 2x 4-pin FAN connector (from Super I/O)

Feature Connectors

  • Headers for SMBus, I2C, LPC

  • Header for front panel usage

  • Others for module control signals

Miscellaneous

  • BTN (ON/OFF, Reset, SLEEP, LID), LED, Buzzer

*Interface and signal compatibility is subject to the module and carrier used.


Block diagram

COM Express Type 6 carrier diagram