Chapter 1 Motherboard Description
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(3) Extended Capabilities Port (ECP).
− Supports one serial port, 16550 UART with 16 byte FIFO.
− UART data rates up to 1.5 Mbaud.
− Supports one Infrared transmission (IR) port.
− Supports PS/2 Mouse.
− Supports 360KB, 720KB, 1.2MB, 1.44MB and 2.88MB floppy disk
drives.
Direct Sound Ready AC97 Digital Audio Controller
− Dual full-duplex Direct Sound channels between system memory and
AC97 link.
− PCI master interface with scatter / gather and bursting capability.
− 32 byte FIFO of each direct sound channel.
− Host based sample rate converter and mixer.
− Standard v1.0 or v2.0 AC97 Codec interface for single or cascaded
AC97 Codec's from multiple vendors.
− Loopback capability for re-directing mixed audio streams into USB
and 1394 speakers.
− Hardware SoundBlaster Pro for Windows DOS box and real-mode Dos
legacy compatibility.
− Plug and play with 4 IRQ, 4 DMA, and 4 I/O space options for
SoundBlaster Pro and MIDI hardware.
− Hardware assisted FM synthesis for legacy compatibility.
− Direct two game ports and one MIDI port interface.
− Complete software driver support for Windows 95, Windows 98,
Windows NT, Windows 2000 and Windows ME.
Dimensions (Baby AT form-factor)
− 21.82cm x 22cm (WxL)
Power Management
− Supports both ACPI (Advanced and Configuration and Power
Interface) and legacy (APM) power management.
− ACPI v1.0 Compliant.
− APM v1.2 Compliant.
− CPU clock throttling and clock stop control for complete ACPI C0 to
C3 state support.