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Chapter 1: Introduction
Serial ATA
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Four Serial ATA Connectors
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Transfer rate exceeding best ATA (~150 MB/s) with scalability to higher
rates
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Low pin count for both host and devices
AC’97 Audio Codec
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Compliant with AC’97 2.3 specification
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Front-Out, Surround-Out, MIC-In and LINE-In Jack Sensing
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Three analog line-level stereo inputs with 5-bit volume control:
LINE_IN, CD, AUX
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Two analog line-level mono input
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Standard 48-Pin LQFP
Onboard I/O Ports
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Two PS/2 ports for mouse and keyboard
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One serial port
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One parallel port
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One VGA port
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One LAN port (optional)
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Four back-panel USB2.0 ports
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Audio jacks for microphone, line-in and line-out
Fast Ethernet LAN (optional)
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10 Mb/s and 100 Mb/s operation
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Integrated Fast Ethernet MAC, physical chip, and transceiver onto a
single chip
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Supports 10Mb/s and 100Mb/s N-way auto-negotiation
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Support ACPI power management
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Full Duplex Flow Control (IEEE 802.3x) and Half/Full duplex capability
USB 2.0
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Compliant with Universal Serial Bus Specification Revision 2.0
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Compliant with Intel’s Enhanced Host Controller Interface Specification
Revision 1.0
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Compliant with Universal Host Controller Interface Specification
Revision 1.1
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PCI multi-function device consists of two
UHCI Host Controller
cores
for full-/low-speed signaling and one
EHCI Host Controller
core for
high-speed signaling
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Root hub consists 4 downstream facing ports with integrated physical
layer transceivers shared by
UHCI
and
EHCI
Host Controller, up to
eight functional ports
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Support PCI-Bus Power Management Interface Specification release 1.1
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Legacy support for all downstream facing ports
