IEI Technology PCIE-9152, User Manual

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PCIE-9152 PCIMG 1.3 CPU Card
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Supports two SATA drives
Supports 1.5 Gb/s data transfer speeds
Supports Serial ATA Specification, Revision 1.0a
2.6.7 USB Controller
Up to six USB ports are supported on the PCIE-9152. Some USB ports are on the rear I/O
interface, the rest are implemented through the edge connector to the backplane.
2.6.8 PCIe Bus
The Southbridge supports four PCIe x1 channels. The PCIe x1 channels are interfaced to
the backplane through the edge connector.
2.7 LPC Bus Components
The LPC bus is connected to components listed below:
BIOS chipset
Super I/O chipset
TPM connector
2.7.1 BIOS Chipset
The BIOS chipset has a licensed copy of AMI BIOS installed on the chipset. Some of the
BIOS features are listed below:
AMI Flash BIOS
SMIBIOS (DMI) compliant
Console redirection function support
PXE (Pre-boot Execution Environment) support
USB booting support
2.7.2 Super I/O chipset
The iTE IT8712F Super I/O chipset is connected to the Intel ICH6M southbridge through
the LPC bus. The iTE IT8712F is an LPC interface-based Super I/O device that comes
with Environment Controller integration.