Hardware functional overview – FIC A360 User Manual

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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 re-directing mixed audio streams into USB and 1394 speakers

• Hardware SoundBlaster Pro for Windows DOS box and real-mode DOS legacy

compatibility

• Hardware assisted FM synthesis for legacy compatibility

• Direct two game ports and one MIDI port interface

• Complete software driver support for Windows-95/98/2000 and Windows NT
• Voltage, Temperature, Fan Speed Monitor and Controller

• Five positive voltage (one internal), three temperature (one internal) and two fan-speed

monitoring

• 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 over-current detection status on USB

inputs

• 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 wake-up

• Up to 12 general purpose input ports and 23 output ports

• One programmable chip select and one microcontroller chip select


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