Introduction
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S/PDIF is a standard audio file transfer format that
transfers digital audio signals to a device without
having to be converted first to an analog format. This prevents the
quality of the audio signal from degrading whenever it is converted
to analog. S/PDIF is usually found on digital audio equipment such as
a DAT machine or audio processing device. The S/PDIF connector on
the system board sends surround sound and 3D audio signal out-
puts to amplifiers and speakers and to digital recording devices like
CD recorders.
Serial ATA is a storage interface that is compliant
with SATA 1.0 specification. With speed of up to
3Gb/s, it improves hard drive performance faster than the standard
parallel ATA whose data transfer rate is 100MB/s.
Silicon Image Sil3811 is a Serial ATA to Parallel ATA
bridge chip. Serial ATA commands from the Serial
ATA host interface are decoded and converted to Parallel ATA
commands and sent to the Parallel ATA device.
The Intel 82566DM and Marvell 88E8053 PCI
Express Gigabit Ethernet controllers support up
to 1Gbps data transmission.
IEEE 1394 is fully compliant with the 1394 OHCI
(Open Host Controller Interface) 1.1 specification.
It supports up to 63 devices that can run simultaneously on a sys-
tem. 1394 is a fast external bus standard that supports data trans-
fer rates of up to 400Mbps. In addition to its high speed, it also
supports isochronous data transfer which is ideal for video devices
that need to transfer high levels of data in real-time. 1394 supports
both Plug-and-Play and hot plugging.
The system board is equipped with an IrDA connec-
tor for wireless connectivity between your computer
and peripheral devices. The IRDA (Infrared Data Association) specifi-
cation supports data transfers up to 115Kbps baud rate speed.
irda
gigabit lan
S/PDIF
IDE
SERIAL ATA
ieee 1394
