FIC A360 User Manual

 

Hardware Functional Overview 

•  PCI master interface with scatter / gather and bursting capability 

•  32 byte FIFO of each direct sound channel 

•  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 

•  Hardware assisted FM synthesis for legacy compatibility 

•  Direct two game ports and one MIDI port interface 

•  Complete software driver support for Windows-95/98/2000 and Windows NT 
•  Voltage, Temperature, Fan Speed Monitor and Controller 

•  Five positive voltage (one internal), three temperature (one internal) and two fan-speed 

monitoring 

•  Programmable control, status, monitor and alarm for flexible desktop management 
•  Automatic clock throttling with integrated temperature sensing 

•  Internal core VCC voltage sensing 

•  Flexible external voltage sensing arrangement (any positive supply and battery) 
 
Universal Serial Bus Controller 
 

•  USB v1.1 and Intel Universal HCI v1.1 compatible 

•  Eighteen level (doublewords) data FIFO with full scatter and gather capability 

•  Root hub and four function ports 

•  Integrated physical layer transceivers with optional over-current detection status on USB 

inputs 

•  Legacy keyboard and PS/2 mouse support 
 
System Management Bus Interface 
 

•  Host interface for processor communications 

•  Slave interface for external SMBus masters 
 
Sophisticated PC99-Compatible Mobile Power Management 
 

•  Supports both ACPI 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 
•  PCI bus clock run, Power Management Enabled (PME) control, and PCI/CPU clock 

generator stop control 

•  Supports multiple system suspend types 
•  Multiple suspend power plane controls and suspend status indicators 

•  Normal, doze, sleep, suspend and conserve modes 

•  Global and local device power control 

•  System event monitoring with two event classes 

•  Dedicated input pins for power and sleep buttons, external modem ring indicator, and 

notebook lid open/close for system wake-up 

•  Up to 12 general purpose input ports and 23 output ports 

•  One programmable chip select and one microcontroller chip select 

 
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