System Overview 1-3
For 3D acceleration, the chip features an integrated 1.2 million triangles/second
set-up engine that reduces CPU use and bus bandwidth requirements. For 2D
acceleration, the chip features hardware acceleration of Bitbit and Line Draw.
Motion video acceleration features include hardware DVD decode through
Motion Compensation and Inverse Discrete Cosign Transformation to provide
full frame rate playback of DVD content.
Included on the chip is a 4KB texture cache and support for Gouraud shading
and Direct 3D texture lighting.
The chip is supported with 8 MB of video SGRAM installed on the system
board.
Network Support
The system board has an Intel 82559 10BASE-T/100BASE-TX network
controller chip and an external LAN connector at the back of the system. The
chip combines small size and low power consumption to deliver highly
manageable fast ethernet connectivity.
Features of the 82559 controller include:
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Advanced Configuration and Power Interface (ACPI)
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wake on Magic Packet
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wake on interesting packet
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advanced System Management Bus (SMS)
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Wired for Management (WfM) support
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IP checksum assist
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PCI 2.2 compliance
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PC 98 and PC 99 compliance
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full duplex support at both 10 and 100 Mbps
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Wake on LAN
™
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low power 3.3V device.
The chip also has Alert on LAN
™
, a technology that alerts system
administrators when a system has a problem.
