FIC M296 - Manual (Page 113)

Hardware Functional Overview
systems:
• Bus mastering of 2D&3D display lists.
• Direct walk of Direct3D/OpenGL vertex list.
• Ultra-thin driver layer.
• Maximizes concurrency between Mobility Radeon 8500 and host.
• Triple 10-bit palette DAC supports pixel rates to 350MHz.
• DVI-compliant integrated 165MHz TMDS transmitter.
• Up to UXGA (1600x1200) resolution.
• Supports VESA proposed reduced blanking timings.
• Ratiometric expansion.
• DDC1 and DDC2ci for plug and play monitors.
• Hydravision for dual monitor support.
• Harware I2C.
• Flexible memory support:
• SGRAM or SDRAM.
• SDR or DDR.
• DDR support for both system memory SDRAM and graphics SGRAM devices.
• 128-bit or 64-bit interface.
• 8MB to 64MB.
• Integrated hardware diagnostic tests performed automatically upon initialization.
• High quality components through at-speed testing, built-in Scan, Iddq, CRC, chip
diagnostics, and XOR tree.
• Single chip solution in 0.15 micron, 1.2V-1.5V CMOS technology in 696 BGA and 648
BGA package.
• Comprehensive HDKs, SDKs and utilities augmented by full engineering support.
• Complete local language support (contact ATI for current list).
• Dual RGB CRT output with DDC.
• Integrated enhanced TV encoder based on Rage Theater support at 1024x768.
• HDCP 1.0 support on integrated TMDS transmitter.
• Digital interface with external TMDS Tx with dedicated DDC, configurable as a 24 bit SDR
bus or a 12 bit DDR bus.
• Independent h/w icon & h/w cursor on both display paths (simultaneous h/w cursor & icon).
• IEEE 1149.1 Scan path interface.
• VIP 2.0 with multi channel DMA transfer. Support for Rage Theater via VIP.
4.11 PCMCIA Controller
The PCMCIA controller of the notebook is implemented on the motherboard using the
O2Micro OZ6912 CardBus Controller. The M295/296 notebook only supports single
PCMCIA slot for PCI-Cardbus Bridge.
CARDBUS CONTROLLERS
The OZ6912 is an ACPI and PC98/99 logo certified high performance, single slot PC Card
controller with a synchronous 32-bit bus master/target PCI interface. This PC Card to PCI
bridge host controller is compliant with the 2000 PC Card Standard. This standard
incorporates the new 32-bit CardBus while retaining the 16-bit PC Card specification as
defined by PCMCIA release 2.1. CardBus is intended to support "temporal" add-in functions
on PC Cards, such as Memory cards, Network interfaces, FAX/Modems and other wireless
communication cards, etc. The high performance and capability of the CardBus interface will
enable the new development of many new functions and applications.
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