2.1Introduction
The SM-C93 is a SMARC Rel. 2.1.1 compliant module based on the Intel®Atom®x6000E Series and Intel®Pentium®and Celeron®N and J Series processors
(formerly Elkhart Lake) for FuSa applications, a series of Dual / Quad SOCs with 64-bit instruction set.
These new family of processors offers different use conditions, such as PC Client, Embedded and Industrial targets and is optimized for usage in vertical applications
for IOT including Industrial, Office Automation, Retail, Gaming, Healthcare, Transportation.
New features introduced by Elkhart Lake are, but not limited to the following: Time Sensitive Network (TSN) and Time Coordinate Computing (TCC) for real-time and
responsive applications, Scalability and consolidation of temporally deterministic workloads, In band and OOB remote manageability (reboot/power-on/power-off),
Platform Trust Technology (PTT), Dynamic Application Loader (DAL) and Secure Guard Extension (SGX), Intel Programmable Service Engine, Intel UHD Graphics,
media, and display supporting, Fully Integrated Voltage Regulator (FIVR). Last but not least, this is the first Intel product designed with functional safety capabilities,
made available by Intel® Safety Island (SI), a functional safety IP integrated into the Elkhart Lake Platform Control Hub (PCH), intended to raise the safety level of the
platform with a single source for managing the safety faults of the SOC.
These SOCs embed all the features usually obtained by combination of CPU + platform Controller hubs, all in one single IC, which allows, therefore, the system
minimisation and performance optimisation, which is essential for boards with sizes so reduced as for
the computing abilities of a standard board, with the possibilities of combining with a ready-to-use carrier board like the SECO CSM-B79 or customised carrier board.
The Embedded Memory Controller allows the integration of up to 16GB of LPDDR4 Memory directly soldered onboard with In-Band Error Correction Code supported
(Safety related feature) and speed up to 4267MT/s on single rank and 3733MT/s on dual rank.
All SOCs embed an Intel®Gen11 UHD Graphics controller with up to 32 Execution Units, which offer high graphical performances, with support for Microsoft®
DirectX12.1, OpenGL 4.5, OpenCLTM 1.2, OpenGL ES 3.1, Vulkan 1.1 and HW acceleration for video encoding and decoding of HEVC (H.265), H.264, VP8, VP9,
JPEG/MJPEG. It is also possible the HW video decoding only of MPEG2, VC-1.
This embedded GPU is able to drive three independent displays, by using the interfaces available on SMARC connector: one DP++ 1.4, one HMDI 1.4 or DP++ 1.4
and one eDP 1.3 or Dual Channel 18/24bit LVDS (factory alternatives).
Mass Storage capabilities of the board include one external S-ATA Gen3 channel, a standard 4-bit SD interface and one optional eMMC 5.1 Drive soldered on board
(Safety related), with up to 128GB capabilities.
Other than the interfaces already discussed previously, on SMARC connector there are the signals necessary for the implementation of 2x GbE, up to 6 ports in
USB2.0 only and up to 2 Super Speed (SS) ports (i.e. USB 3.1 Gen2 compliant), 4 x PCI-Express Gen3 lanes, HD and I2S Audio interfaces, CAN, I2C, SPI and SM
buses, up to 14 GPIOs, HS-UART and UART interfaces.
Interfacing to the board comes through a single card edge connector, whose pinout is defined by SMARC specifications Rel.2.1. For external interfacing to standard
devices, a carrier board with a 230-pin MXM connector is needed. This board will implement all the routing of the interface signals to external standard connectors,
as well as integration of other peripherals/devices not already included in SM-C93 CPU module.
Please refer to following chapter for a complete list of all peripherals integrated and characteristics.