Dell™ PowerEdge™ R710 Technical Guidebook
Intel Direct Media Interface (DMI)
The DMI (previously called the Enterprise Southbridge Interface) connects the Tylersburg IOH with the Intel I/O Controller Hub (ICH). The DMI is equivalent to a x4 PCIe Gen1 link with a transfer rate of 1 Gb/s in each direction.
PCI Express Generation 2
PCI Express is a serial
In the
Intel I/O Controller Hub 9 (ICH9)
ICH9 is a highly integrated I/O controller, supporting the following functions:
•Six x1 PCIe Gen1 ports, with the capability of combining ports
•These ports are unused on the PowerEdge R710
•PCI Bus
•Up to six Serial ATA (SATA) ports with transfer rates up to 300 MB/s
•The PowerEdge R710 features two SATA port for optional internal optical drive or tape backup
•Six UHCI and two EHCI
•The PowerEdge R710 has eight external USB ports and two internal ports dedicated for UIPS. Refer to the 11th generation of PowerEdge servers Hardware/BIOS Specification for the USB assignments for each platform
•Power management interface (ACPI 3.0b compliant)
•Platform Environmental Control Interface (PECI)
•Intel Dynamic Power Mode Manager
•I/O interrupt controller
•SMBus 2.0 controller
•Low Pin Count (LPC) interface to Super I/O, Trusted Platform Module (TPM), and SuperVU
•Serial Peripheral Interface (SPI) support for up to two devices
•The PowerEdge R710’s BIOS is connected to the ICH using SPI
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