ECM-3610/3610L
ECM-3610/3610L User’s Manual 11
2.3.3 VIA VT82C686B South Bridge
The VT82C686B PSIPC (PCI Super-I/O Integrated Peripheral Controller) is a high
integration, high performance, power-efficient, and high compatibility device that supports
Intel and non-Intel based processor to PCI bus bridge functionality to make a complete
Microsoft PC99-compliant PCI/ISA system. In addition to complete ISA extension bus
functionality, the VT82C686B includes standard intelligent peripheral controllers:
n Master mode enhanced IDE controller with dual channel DMA engine and
interlaced dual channel commands. Dedicated FIFO coupled with scatter and
gather master mode operation allows high performance transfers between PCI
and IDE devices. In addition to standard PIO and DMA mode operation. The
VT82C686B also supports the UltraDMA-33, UltraDMA-66, and UltraDMA-100
(ATA-100) standards. The IDE controller is SFF-8038I v1.0 and Microsoft
Windows-family compliant.
n Universal Serial Bus controller that is USB v1.1 and Universal HCI v1.1
compliant. The VT82C686B includes the root hub with four function ports with
integrated physical layer transceivers. The USB controller allows hot plug and
play and isochronous peripherals to be inserted into the system with universal
driver support. The controller also implements legacy keyboard and mouse
support so that legacy software can run transparently in a non-USB-aware
operating system environment.
n Keyboard controller with PS2 mouse support.
n Real Time Clock with 256 byte extended CMOS. In addition to the standard ISA
RTC functionality, the integrated RTC also includes the date alarm, century field,
and other enhancements for compatibility with the ACPI standard.
n Notebook-class power management functionality compliant with ACPI and legacy
APM requirements. Multiple sleep states (power-on suspend, suspend-to-DRAM,
and suspend-to-Disk) are supported with hardware automatic wake-up.
Additional functionality includes event monitoring, CPU clock throttling and stop
(Intel processor protocol), PCI bus clock stop control, modular power, clock and
leakage control, hardware-based and software-based event handling, general
purpose I/O, chip select and external SMI.
n Hardware monitoring subsystem for managing system / motherboard voltage
levels, temperatures, and fan speeds
n Full System Management Bus (SMBus) interface.
n Two 16550-compatible serial I/O ports with infrared communications port option
on the second port.
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