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PCI Interface

Provides Steerable PCI Interrupts for PCI Device Plug-and-Play

Enhanced DMA Controller

1. Provides 7 Programmable Channels, 4 for 8-bit Data Size, 3 for 16-bit Data Size

2. 32-bits addressing capability 

Counter/Timers

• Provides 8254 Compatible Timers for System Timer, Refresh Request, Speaker Output Use

• Provides 3 multimedia timers

Interrupt Controller

1. Provides 14 Interrupt Channels

2. Independent Programmable Level/Edge Triggered Channels

3. Integrated IO-APIC capability 

Serialized IRQ Supported

• Quiet/Continuous Mode

• Programmable (Default 21) IRQ/DATA Frames

• Programmable START Frame Pulse Width

PMU Features

• Full Support for ACPI and OS Directed Power Management

• Full Support for Instantly Available PC feature

• CPU SMM Legacy Mode and SMI Feature Supported

• Full Support of Clock Control Functions

• Supports I/O Trap for I/O Restart Feature

• PMU Operation States :

1. 1. G0 State
   -- On
   -- Standby Mode

2. 2. G1 State (Suspend Mode 1)
   -- S1 State (Power On Suspend)
   -- S3 State (Suspend To RAM)
   -- S4 State (Suspend To DISK)

3. 3. G2 State (Suspend Mode 2)
   -- S5 State (Soft-Off)

4. 4. G3 State (Mechanical-Off)

• Legacy Monitor Timers supported

• Low Battery timer supported

• Provides System Activity Monitoring

• Multiple External Wakeup Events

• CLKRUN# Function Supported for PCI Mobile Design Guide Ver1.1

• Thermal Alarm Supported

• Clock Generator Control Logic Supported

1. -- CPUCLK Stop Control

2. -- PCICLK Stop Control

• Run Time Events Supported

• General Purpose Input Signals, General Purpose Output Signals and General Purpose Input/Output Signals Supported

• All Registers Readable/Restorable for Proper Resume from Suspend State

• Watch Dog Timer for

1. -- Set a Bit in Register

2. -- Generate an SMI#/SCI/NMI/INIT

3. -- Generate System Reset

Build-in Real Time Clock

• Common calendar year with leap year compensation

• Binary or BCD data representation

• 12/24 hour mode

• Daylight saving time option

• Interfaces with software as 256 bytes of RAM

• -   15 bytes of clock and control registers

• -   241 bytes of general-purpose RAM

1. Month-of-day alarm

Built-in PCI IDE Controller

• Supports Ultra DMA Mode Transfers up to Mode 6 Timing (100/133 Mbytes/sec)

• Supports 48-bit LBA (Large Disk), hard drive larger than 137 GB

• Supports PIO Modes up to Mode 4 Timings, and Multiword DMA Mode 0,1,2 with Independent Timing of up to 4 Drives

• Dedicated Pins of ATA Interface for each Channel

• Supports Tri-state IDE Signals for Swap Bay

USB Interface

• One EHCI USB 2.0 and Three OHCI USB 1.1 Host Controllers for supporting up to eight USB Ports

• Supports HS (480Mbits/sec), FS (12Mbits/sec) and LS (1.5Mbits/sec) data transfer rate

• Supports system wake up from S1 ¡V S4

• Supports Legacy Keyboard and Mouse emulation in DOS environment

Low Pin Count (LPC Rev1.1) Interface

• Supports LPC interface for legacy devices

• Supports 2 LPC Master and 7 DMA devices

• Supports TPM (Trusted Platform Module)

SMBus Interface

• System Management Bus Interface Meets the v2.0 Specification.

• Support SMBALERT#.

Audio System

• Fully Plug-and-Play PCI controller and software

• PCI 2.3 compliant bus master optimized for multiple stream operation

• Scatter-gathering support

• Dual PCM inputs and dual microphone inputs support

• 6 audio playback channels: PCM_out L/R, Surr L/R, Center and LFE

• 20-bit sample resolution support

• Up to 3 AC97 SDATA_IN pins support ¡V 3 codecs (2 for audio and 1 for modem)

Software Modem Interface

• The M1689 provided the AC'97 2.3 compliant digital controller interface for third parties (such as the AMC Codec¡¦s vendor) to enable the software modem solution.

• 2 separate telephony bus master channels.  One for modem output, one for modem input..

• AC'97 2.3 Modem variable sample rate support for ¡¡±On Demand¡¨ sample transport scheme.

• AC'97 2.3 GPIO pin status and control support.

• Power Management and wake-up event support

• Caller ID string transmission via AC-link support

1/10/100 Mb/s  Fast Ethernet MAC

• The M1689 will provide the 1/10/100 Mbps Media Access Control (MAC) controller for the best solution of the phone-line/Ethernet LAN connectivity.

• Compliant with IEEE 802.3u 100BASE-TX, IEEE 802.3 10BASE-T standard

• PCI interface controller fully compliant with PCI specification 2.3

• EEPROM interface to store configuration information and user defined message

• Two large independent receive FIFO (2K) & transmit FIFO (2K) with programmable FIFO threshold and full packet burst processing

• Support automatic packet deletion for runt packets and packet re-transmission with no FIFO reload

• Support Full/Half Duplex operation

• Physical, broadcast address recognition and 512-bit hash table algorithm for multicast address filtering

• Compliant with the Advanced Configuration and Power Interface Specification (ACPI) Revision 2.0

• Compliant with the Network Device Class Power Management 1.0

• Compliant with PCI Bus Power Management Interface specification 1.1

• Compliant with IEEE802.3u Auto-negotiation protocol for automatic link type selection

• WFM 2.0 compliance

Serial ATA Host Controller

• Supports SATA 1.0 (High Speed Serialized AT Attachment, Revision 1.0), 1.5 Gb/s data rate.

• Supports Host adapter register interface (SCR, Status and Control Registers).

• Independent DMA operation on two ports

Supports TPM device version 1.2

PC 2001 Compliance

Package

• 35 x 35 millimeter, 748-ball BGA package.