X9DRD-iF/LF Motherboard User’s Manual

1-9 Overview of the Nuvoton WPCM450 Controller

The Nuvoton WPCM450R Controller, a Baseboard Management Controller (BMC), supports 2D/VGA-compatible Graphic Cores with PCI interface, creating multi-media virtualization via Keyboard/Video/Mouse Redirection (KVMR). The WPCM450R Controller is ideal for remote system management.

The WPCM450R Controller interfaces with the host system via PCI connections to communicate with the graphics cores. It supports USB 2.0 and 1.1 for remote keyboard/mouse/virtual media emulation. It also provides LPC interface support to control Super IO functions. The WPCM450R Controller is connected to the network via an external Ethernet PHY module or shared NCSI connections.

The WPCM450R communicates with onboard components via six SMBus inter- faces, PECI (Platform Environment Control Interface) buses, and General Purpose I/O ports.

Other Features Supported by the WPCM BMC Controller

The WPCM450R supports the following features:

IPMI 2.0

Serial over LAN

KVM over LAN

LAN Alerting-SNMP Trap

Event Log

X-Bus parallel interface for I/O expansion

Multiple ADC inputs, Analog and Digital Video outputs

SPI Flash Host BIOS and firmware bootstrap program supported

Reduced Media Independent Interface (RMII)

OS (Operating System) Independency

Provides remote Hardware Health Monitoring via IPMI. Key features

Provides Network Management Security via remote access/console redirection.

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SUPER MICRO Computer X9DRD-LF, X9DRD-iF user manual Overview of the Nuvoton WPCM450 Controller