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IEI Integration NANO-9453 v1.0 User Manual

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NANO-9453 EPIC Motherboard

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Super I/O chipset

2.6.5 Intel

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ICH7M PCI Interface

The PCI interface on the ICH7M is compliant with the PCI Revision 2.3 implementation.

Some of the features of the PCI interface are listed below.

PCI Revision 2.3 compliant

33MHz

5V tolerant PCI signals (except PME#)

Integrated PCI arbiter supports up to seven PCI bus masters

2.6.6 Intel

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ICH7M Real Time Clock

256 bytes of battery backed RAM is provided by the Motorola MC146818A real time clock

(RTC) integrated into the ICH6. The RTC operates on a 3V battery and 32.768KHz crystal.

The RTC keeps track of the time and stores system data even when the system is turned

off.

2.6.7 Intel

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ICH7M SATA Controller

The integrated SATA controller on the ICH7M southbridge supports two SATA drives on

the NANO-9453 with independent DMA operations. SATA controller specifications are

listed below.

Supports two SATA drives

Supports 3Gb/s data transfer speeds

Supports Serial ATA Specification, Revision 1.0a

2.6.8 Intel

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ICH7M USB Controller

Up to six high-speed, full-speed or low-speed USB devices are supported by the ICH7M

on the NANO-9453. High-speed USB 2.0, with data transfers of up to 480MB/s, is enabled

with the ICH7M integrated Enhanced Host Controller Interface (EHCI) compliant host

controller. USB full-speed and low-speed signaling is supported by the ICH7M integrated

Universal Host Controller Interface (UHCI) controllers.