TWM259231U - Control circuit device with separating connectors - Google Patents

Description

M259231

4. Creation Description (1) I [Technical Field of New Type] This creation is about a separate control circuit, especially a north bridge chip and an output / input interface chip of an industrial computer system. [Previous technology] With the rapid development of information technology, computer systems are more widely used, especially in industrial computer applications, where different peripheral devices are often used, so the control circuit board must be remade to meet different peripheral devices. Requirements for bus specifications. The chip set (Ch i ps e t) of the conventional computer system is that the south bridge chip, the north bridge chip and the control chip are set on the same circuit board. However, due to the different requirements of the expansion slot specifications, a whole circuit board including the south bridge chip, the north bridge chip and the control chip must be replaced to increase or decrease the number of expansion slots on the circuit board or the types of bus bars, which easily leads to research and development. Process delay. Specifically, the circuit board of a conventional industrial computer system is shown in Fig. 1. This circuit board mainly includes a central processing unit 100, a north bridge chip 10, a control chip 104, a memory module 106, a south bridge chip 108, and an integrated drive electronic interface (IDE) 1 10. And peripheral device interface 1 1 2. The North Bridge chip 102 receives the signal from the central processing unit 100, and sends this signal to the South Bridge chip 108, the memory module 106 and the control chip 104, and the ® South bridge chip 108 Send signals to the integrated drive electronics interface (IDE) 1 1 0 and the peripheral device interface 1 1 2.

Page 5 M259231 Study and creation instructions (2) Because the North Bridge chip 102 and the control chip 104 are set on the same circuit board, when you want to improve the function of the computer system, you need to change the design specifications, but because of the North Bridge The chip 102 and the control chip 104 are arranged on the same circuit board and cannot be separated from each other. Therefore, the entire circuit board must be discarded, that is, the south bridge chip 108, the north bridge chip 102 and the control chip on the original circuit board. 1 0 4 cannot be reused, which significantly increases manufacturing costs. Therefore, how to improve the design of industrial computer systems to increase the time and flexibility of product development and design has become an urgent issue for the industry. [New content] One of the goals of this creation is to provide a separate control circuit to shorten the development time of computer systems. Another purpose of this creation is to provide a separate control circuit to match the I / O interface chips of different specifications to improve the design flexibility of computer systems. Another purpose of this creation is to provide a separate control circuit to improve the ease of assembly of a computer system. According to the above purpose, this creation proposes a separate control circuit, which mainly includes a first circuit module and a second circuit module. The first circuit module is provided with a control chip, a high-speed interface bus, and a central processing unit (CPU). . The second circuit module is provided with an output / input interface chip, the second circuit module and the first circuit module are separated from each other, and the first circuit module communicates with the second circuit module through a high-speed interface bus. specific

In terms of M259231, creation description (3), the first group is equipped with a second connection device for output. The creative device is a co-planar group to form a flat mutually perpendicular circuit module with a first connection device. The first circuit ^ connects the _th circuit module, the second electrical device, and the second circuit mold device to each other. The second connection module performs signal transmission to form a mutual finger and the second second connection device is expanding. In short, in the preferred embodiment, the number of side devices and the power-saving control chip are configured in the first connection mode. Make the first circuit board. The first connection device is a circuit board configured to straighten the first circuit module. Moreover, the first connection device is an expansion slot, and the first connection device is centered. The second connection device is a slot, so that the second connection device is a plug connection device and a second connection module, and the second circuit module and the second connection device are grouped and the second circuit module. The connection device is a gold connection device. Plugged into a gold finger and first connected to the first connection Pei Zhiben's creation uses the design flexibility of a separate control circuit and uses the cost of the original circuit board. Especially when it ’s time, the circuit can be completed quickly, so as to effectively increase the current South Bridge and North Bridge crystals. Use different brands of wheel-out / change design. [Embodiment] The present invention provides a circuit for a computer system by making a first circuit module and a second circuit module a circuit, and using a connection device to electrically travel the 笛. ,,,, and each other ', and To facilitate signal transmission, connect a circuit module and a second Thunderbolt /. In particular, when the design specifications of the port ==, t, group, are required, the knife type control circuit is required, and the second circuit module is replaced. Page 7 M259231

It can be shortened to match different manufacturers on the computer module, which can meet various weekly flexibility. The development schedule of the system. Brand and different specifications and grades are connected at the same time, so as to improve the design of the computer system when the input / output interface of the second circuit is improved. Refer to Figure 2A, which shows the separation control based on this creation. ί A block diagram of a circuit module 2000. Separate control circuit system The two main knives include a first circuit module 200 and a second circuit module 300, wherein the first circuit module 200 is provided with a control chip 202 and a high-speed interface bus 204. And central processing unit (CPU) 2 0 6. During signal transmission, the signal of the central processing unit 2 06 is transmitted to the control chip 2 0 via the front-end bus 2 08, and the signal of the control chip 2 0 2 is transmitted from the high-speed interface bus 2 0 4 to the first connection device. 2 2 2. — In the preferred embodiment of this creation, the control chip 202 includes a north bridge chip and the first circuit module includes a south bridge chip 212 for controlling peripheral devices. The north bridge chip and the south bridge chip 212 are based on Hub Link (266 MB / s) The bus is used for signal transmission. The V-L ink, Mu TI 0 L bus can also be used to connect the north bridge chip and the south bridge chip 2 1 2 for signal transmission. This creation also includes a memory module 2 1 0 coupled to the Northbridge chip. In addition, the ports controlled by the South Bridge chip 2 1 2 can be, for example, Universal Serial Bus (USB) 214, Integrated Drive Electronics (IDE) 216, Peripheral Component Interconnect, PCI) bus 218, Intelligent Plat form Management Interface,

M259231 IV. Creation Instructions (5) IPMI) 220 and Super I / 0 Device (Super i / 0) 222. Basically, the South Bridge chip 2 1 2 and the above port systems use a low pin count (LPC) interface, and the South Bridge chip 212 also uses a firmware unit (Firmware Hub, FWH) port 224 to control the fast Flash memory. Then, referring to FIG. 2B, a block diagram of the first circuit module of the separated control circuit system according to the present invention is shown. The second circuit module 300 is provided with a 出 out / enter interface chip 302, wherein the second circuit module 300 and the first circuit module 2000 are separated from each other, and the first circuit module is made by a high-speed interface bus 24. An electric = the control chip 202 of the module 200 and the output / input n-plane chip 300 of the second circuit module 300 perform communication transmission. -Even if you refer to the iA and the second figure, the first circuit module 2000 is provided with a second connection device 2 26 and the second circuit module 300 connection device 300 is a coplanar plane; The seismic connection 226 and the second connection and the second circuit module 300 combination circuit module 2000 are connected to the second connection device 226 and the second. Another embodiment combination-ΐ = module 2 0 0 and the second circuit module vice group gold finger and the second connection # & The first connection device 226 is 2 2 6 plugged in the first connection, car connection Syria / 304 is an expansion slot, so that the first connection device is connected. ^ 3; 04th in another embodiment, the second connection is only available and the first connection device 226 is an expansion slot, so that M259231 is four. 2. Creation description (6). Second, the connecting device 304 is inserted into the first connecting device 226. The more important connection device 2 2 6 can be divided into multiple groups of gold fingers, for example, two groups, each ^ = gold finger controls one or several interface chips 3 02, and each group of gold fingers is provided with an individual power source. In order to provide a stable power supply to each part of the interface chip 302 ', the stability of the interface chip is increased. In the preferred embodiment of this creation, the high-speed interface bus 204 includes

Hub Link bus (2 6 6 MB / s), can also use V-Link,

MuTIOL. The second circuit module 300 may also include pci-X (pehphud

Component Interconnect Extended) bus or PCI

Express drives peripheral devices 306 by connecting to the I / O interface chip 302. The second circuit module 300 can be, for example, a 394 port, an scsi port, a SATA port, and a LAN port. The high-speed interface bus 2 of this creation has a transmission rate between 266 MB / s and 1 GB / s. Or higher than 1 G B / s. 'X ° This design improves the design specifications of the North Bridge chip 202, especially the interface chip 302 serially connected to the North Bridge chip 202 can provide a 64-bit PCI-X high-speed transmission "plane or a more south-speed transmission interface" to respond High-speed network, U 1 a · SCSI interface and the high-frequency bandwidth required for future peripherals.

Specifically, 'when you want to change the design of the computer system, such as increasing the number of high-speed interface buses, you must still use the original south bridge chip 2 i 2, ^ t bridge chip 2 02.' This creation uses a separate circuit module The bus bar used in the northern piece 002 is made separately. It is a connection device, and a circuit module 2 0 0 is provided with a first connection device 2 2 6 and a second electrical connection is provided with -30 2 0 Device 3 0 4 in order to put the original in the second circuit mode = 3〇 (

M259231 Fourth, the peripheral devices of the creative description (7) are independent. In summary, the separate control circuit of this creation shortens the development time of computer systems. And by using different specifications of the input / output interface chip, the design flexibility of the computer system is improved. The original south bridge and north bridge chips can also be used to save the cost of the circuit board, especially when the I / O control chips of different brands are used, the requirements for circuit design changes can be completed more quickly. The above-mentioned preferred embodiment of this creation has been disclosed. It is only used to help understand the implementation of this creation. It is not intended to limit the spirit of this creation. After understanding the spirit of this creation, those skilled in this field will not depart from the spirit of this creation. Within the scope, when it is possible to make a few changes, retouching and equivalent changes, the scope of patent protection shall depend on the scope of the attached patent application and its equivalent field. M259231 Schematic illustration To make the above and other purposes, features, and advantages of this creation more obvious and easy to understand, with the following drawings, the detailed description is as follows: Figure 1 shows a block diagram of the control circuit of a computer system of conventional technology . Figure 2A shows the block diagram of the first circuit module of the separate control circuit system based on this creation. Figure 2B shows the block diagram of the second circuit module of the separate control circuit system based on this creation. [Simple description of component representative symbols] 1 0 0 CPU 1 0 2 Northbridge chip

1 0 4 Control chip 1 0 6 Memory module 1 0 8 South bridge chip 1 1 0 Integrated drive electronics interface 1 12 Peripheral device interface 2 0 0 First circuit module 2 0 2 Control chip 2 0 4 High-speed interface bus 2 0 6 CPU 2 0 8 Front-end bus 2 1 0 Memory module 2 1 2 South bridge chip 2 1 4 Universal serial bus 2 1 6 Integrated drive electronics interface 2 1 8 Peripheral component connection bus 2 2 0 Wisdom Platform management interface 2 2 2 Ultra output / input device 2 2 4 Firmware unit 2 2 6 First connection device

3 0 0 Second circuit module 3 0 2 I / O interface chip 304 Second connection device 306 Peripheral device

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Claims (1)

M259231 5. Scope of patent application 1. A separate control circuit system for an industrial computer, including at least: a first circuit module provided with a north bridge chip and a high-speed interface bus; and a second circuit module provided with There is an output / input interface chip; wherein the second circuit module and the first circuit module are separated from each other, and the north bridge chip of the first circuit module and the second circuit module are separated by the high-speed interface bus. The I / O interface chip is used for communication. The first circuit has a second circuit, the second mode of the group, the second circuit of the electrical system, the second circuit, which is connected to the power, and a control device, which is connected to the disconnection. From the point of borrowing one, all the installations of one set are connected to P and the other is Fan Li. Please enter if you want to enter / export this and the north of the bridge. The second line of the installation, transmission, and communication of the second pass should be placed on the chip-connected crystal coupling surface, and the system should be applied. Fan Li specially applies for the application. The road level system is controlled by the type of separation and installation. The second item of the two institutes is described in succession: and the second part of the installation group group circuit and the second group of circuit modules ^ ¾ ^ s first. The plate-shaped road-shaped electrical connection surface is flat, so that Yili Cheng Fanli specially requested that the application of the vertical mode electrical phase system of the group road be mutual control. The electric power of the first item of the model: and the first connection and the second connection form a first connection, so that it can be straightened. Page 13 M259231 V. Scope of patent application Form a circuit board perpendicular to each other. 5. The separate control circuit system as described in item 2 of the scope of patent application, wherein the first connection device is a gold finger and the second connection device is an expansion slot, so that the first connection device is plugged in the first connection device. Second connection device. 6. The separated control circuit system according to item 2 of the scope of patent application, wherein the second connection device is a gold finger and the first connection device is an expansion slot, so that the second connection device is plugged in the first connection device. A connection device. 7. The separated control circuit system according to item 1 of the scope of patent application, wherein the high-speed interface bus includes at least a H b L i n k bus. 8. The separated control circuit system as described in the first item of the patent application scope, wherein the second circuit module further includes a PCI-X bus coupled to the output / input interface chip to drive the PC I- Peripheral devices of X bus specifications. 9. The separated control circuit system as described in item 1 of the scope of the patent application, wherein the second circuit module includes at least a 394 port coupled to the output / input interface chip. Page 14 M259231 V. Patent application scope 10. The separated control circuit system as described in item 1 of the patent application scope, wherein the second circuit module includes at least a SCSI port coupled to the output / input interface chip. 11. The separate control circuit system described in item 1 of the scope of patent application, wherein the second circuit module includes at least a SATA port coupled to the output / input interface chip. 12. The separated control circuit system according to item 1 of the scope of patent application, wherein the second circuit module includes at least a LAN port coupled to the output / input interface chip. 13. The separated control circuit system according to item 1 of the scope of patent application, wherein the first circuit module further includes a memory module coupled to the north bridge chip. Page 15