Hardware Functional Overview
•PCI master interface with scatter / gather and bursting capability
•32 byte FIFO of each direct sound channel
•Standard v1.0 or v2.0 AC97 Codec interface for single or cascaded AC97 Codec’s from multiple vendors
•Loopback capability for
•Hardware SoundBlaster Pro for Windows DOS box and
•Hardware assisted FM synthesis for legacy compatibility
•Direct two game ports and one MIDI port interface
•Complete software driver support for
•Voltage, Temperature, Fan Speed Monitor and Controller
•Five positive voltage (one internal), three temperature (one internal) and two
•Programmable control, status, monitor and alarm for flexible desktop management
•Automatic clock throttling with integrated temperature sensing
•Internal core VCC voltage sensing
•Flexible external voltage sensing arrangement (any positive supply and battery)
Universal Serial Bus Controller
•USB v1.1 and Intel Universal HCI v1.1 compatible
•Eighteen level (doublewords) data FIFO with full scatter and gather capability
•Root hub and four function ports
•Integrated physical layer transceivers with optional
•Legacy keyboard and PS/2 mouse support
System Management Bus Interface
•Host interface for processor communications
•Slave interface for external SMBus masters
Sophisticated PC99-Compatible Mobile Power Management
•Supports both ACPI and legacy APM power management
•ACPI v1.0 Compliant
•APM v1.2 Compliant
•CPU clock throttling and clock stop control for complete ACPI C0 to C3 state support
•PCI bus clock run, Power Management Enabled (PME) control, and PCI/CPU clock generator stop control
•Supports multiple system suspend types
•Multiple suspend power plane controls and suspend status indicators
•Normal, doze, sleep, suspend and conserve modes
•Global and local device power control
•System event monitoring with two event classes
•Dedicated input pins for power and sleep buttons, external modem ring indicator, and notebook lid open/close for system
•Up to 12 general purpose input ports and 23 output ports
•One programmable chip select and one microcontroller chip select
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