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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