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