SUPER MICRO Computer X8SIA-F user manual Overview of the Nuvoton BMC Controller

X8SIA/X8SIA-F User’s Manual

1-8 Overview of the Nuvoton BMC Controller

The NuvotonSM WPCM150 is a combined Baseboard Management Controller and 2D/VGA-compatible Graphics Core with PCI interface, Virtual Media and Keyboard, and a Keyboard/Video/Mouse Redirection (KVMR) module.

The WPCM150 interfaces with the host system via a PCI interface to communicate with the Graphics core. It supports USB 2.0 and 1.1 for remote keyboard/mouse/ virtual media emulation. It also provides an LPC interface to control Super I/O func- tions and connects to the network via an external Ethernet PHY module or shared NCSI connections.

The Nuvoton BMC communicates with onboard components via six SMBus in- terfaces, fan control, Platform Environment Control Interface (PECI) buses, and General Purpose I/O (T-SGPIO) ports.

It also includes the following features:

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One X-Bus parallel interface for expansion I/O connections

Three ADC inputs, Analog and Digital Video outputs

Two serial for boundary scan and debug

There are two different versions of the Nuvoton BMC chip that are used in this prod- uct series. The Nuvoton WPCM150 (Manufacturer P/N WPCM150GA0BX5) which includes all of the features above, is the chip installed in the X8SIA motherboard. Another version, the Nuvoton WPCM450 (Manufacturer P/N WPCM450RA0BX) also has all the features as described above plus IPMI 2.0 support. This particular chip is installed in the X8SIA-F motherboard model.

Note: For more information on IPMI configuration, please refer to the Embedded IPMI User's Guide posted on our website @ http://www.super- micro.com/support/manuals/.

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