2 chipset, Intel® ich8 mobile i/o controller hub, 3 super i/o – ADLINK cPCI-3615 User Manual

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Functional Description

3.2

Chipset

Intel® ICH8 Mobile I/O Controller Hub

The ICH8M provides extensive I/O support. Functions and capa-
bilities include:

X

Provides 6 PCI Expressx1 ports, supporting the PCI
Express Base Specification, Revision 1.1. Each Root Port
supports 2.5GB/s bandwidth in each direction. The
cPCI-3615 utilizes two PCI Express x1 ports for two Gigabit
Ethernet controllers; routes two PCI Express x1 ports to the
board-to-board connector and one PCI Express x1 port to
the J2 connector for expansion capability.

X

Enhanced DMA controller, interrupt controller, and timer functions

X

Integrated Serial ATA host controller with independent DMA
operation on three ports

X

Integrated IDE controller supports Ultra ATA100/66/33

X

System Management Bus (SMBus) Specification, Version
2.0 with additional support for I2C devices

X

Supports Intel® Matrix Storage Technology

X

PCI Local Bus Specification, Revision 2.3 support for
33MHz PCI operations

3.3

Super I/O

The ITE IT8783F Super I/O is on a Low Pin Count interface sup-
porting PS/2 keyboard/mouse; three 16C550-compatible serial
ports; hardware monitor function to monitor CPU voltage, CPU
temperature, power supply voltages and system temperature; and
Watchdog Timer with time resolution from minimum 1 second or
minute to maximum 65635 seconds or minutes on the cPCI-3615.

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