Evalue Technology ECM-3610 - Integrated Peripherals and Interfaces; AC97 Sound System and Ports

User’s Manual
12 ECM-3610/3610L User’s Manual
n Integrated PCI-mastering dual full-duplex direct-sound AC97-link-compatible
sound system. Hardware soundblaster-pro and hardware-assisted FM blocks are
included for Windows DOS box and real-mode DOS compatibility. Loopback
capability is also implemented for directing mixed audio streams into USB and
1394 speakers for high quality digital audio.
n Two game ports and one MIDI port
n ECP/EPP-capable parallel port
n Standard floppy disk drive interface
n Distributed DMA capability for support of ISA legacy DMA over the PCI bus.
Serial IRQ is also supported for docking and non-docking applications.
n Plug and Play controller that allows complete steerability of all PCI interrupts and
internal interrupts / DMA channels to any interrupt channel. One additional
steerable interrupt channel is provided to allow plug and play and
reconfigurability of on-board peripherals for Windows family compliance.
n Internal I/O APIC (Advanced Programmable Interrupt Controller)
2.3.3.1 IDE Interface (Bus Master Capability and Synchronous DMA Mode)
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.
2.3.3.2 USB
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.