Lucky Star 6VPM1, User Manual

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6VPM1 Main Board 1
Chapter 1 Introduction
1-1 Main Board Overview
The main board’s design is based on VIA chipset, “VT8601A & VT82C686A,”
which provides a high-performance/desktop solution to the Intel
®
FC-PGA(or
PPGA) Celeron/ Pentium
Ⅲ
& VIA Cyrix
®
Ⅲ
Processors. The integrated H/W
3D VGAcontroller adopts 64-bit 133MHz host bus speed and shares 4MB or
8MB from frame buffer memory with system which improves the performance
eminently.
The main board integrates PCI-mastering dual full-duplex direct-sound AC97-
link-compatible sound system. Hardware soundblaster-pro and hardware-assisted
FM blocks are included for Windows DOS box and real-mode DOS
compatibility. Loopback capability is also implemented for directing mixed
audio stream into USB and 1394 speaker for high quality digital audio.
The main board also implements high performance I/O Controller utilizing with
fully Plug and Play device which supports 2.88 MB Floppy, Dual 16550
Compatible (with 16 bytes FIFO, up to 460K baud rate) Serial Port, ECP
(Enhanced Capabilities Port), EPP (Enhanced Parallel Port) parallel port,
Infrared IrDA (HPSIR), and Amplitude Shift Keyed IR. (ASKIR) port.