NB2DSK01 - Peripheral Board Connectors

The plug-in peripheral boards are each mounted onto the NB2DSK01 motherboard using a single 100-way Female docking connector. Provision is made for the connection of up to three such boards, with the corresponding connectors labeled 'PERIPHERAL BOARD A', 'PERIPHERAL BOARD B' and 'PERIPHERAL BOARD C' respectively. These are individually referred to as 'NANOCONNECT' interfaces, and collectively as the peripheral board connectors.

Figure 1. Peripheral board connectors ('NANOCONNECT' interfaces).

Resources on the peripheral boards are made available to the daughter board FPGA device. The corresponding I/O pins from each peripheral board connector – 50 each – are wired directly to pins of the daughter board connectors:

• Peripheral Board A and B connector signals are wired to daughter board connector HDR_L1

• Peripheral Board C connector signals are wired to daughter board connector HDR_T1.

For more information on peripheral boards, see Peripheral Boards.

Location on Board

The peripheral board connectors – 'PERIPHERAL BOARD A' (designated EXTHDR1), 'PERIPHERAL BOARD B' (designated EXTHDR2) and 'PERIPHERAL BOARD C' (designated EXTHDR3) – are located on the component side of the board, on the left-hand side.

Schematic Reference

The generic peripheral board connector can be found on Sheet 46 (NB2_PBCON.SchDoc, entitled Peripheral Board Connector) of the motherboard schematics.