Technical Product Specification

Product Architecture Overview Intel
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Server Board S2600WP TPS
security information. The RTC also supports a date alarm that allows for scheduling a wake up
event up to 30 days in advance, rather than just 24 hours in advance.
3.4.12
GPIO
Various general purpose inputs and outputs are provided for custom system design. The
number of inputs and outputs varies depending on the Intel
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C600-A PCH configuration.
3.4.13
Enhanced Power Management
The Intel
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C600-A PCH power management functions include enhanced clock control and
various low-power (suspend) states. A hardware-based thermal management circuit permits
software-independent entrance to low-power states. The PCH contains full support for the
Advanced Configuration and Power Interface (ACPI) Specification, Revision 4.0a.
3.4.14
Fan Speed Control
The Intel
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C600-A PCH integrates four fan speed sensors (four TACH signals) and four fan
speed controllers (three Pulse Width Modulator signals), which enables monitoring and
controlling up to four fans on the system. With the new implementation of the single-wire Simple
Serial Transport (SST) 1.0 bus and Platform Environmental Control Interface (PECI), the PCH
provides an easy way to connect to SST-based thermal sensors and access the processor
thermal data.
3.4.15
Intel
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Virtualization Technology for Direct I/O (Intel
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VT-d)
The Intel
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Virtualization Technology is designed to support multiple software environments
sharing same hardware resources. Each software environment may consist of an OS and
applications. The Intel
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Virtualization Technology can be enabled or disabled in the BIOS setup.
The default behavior is disabled.
Note: If the setup options are changed to enable or disable the Virtualization Technology setting
in the processor, the user must perform an AC power cycle for the changes to take effect.
The chipset supports DMA remapping from inbound PCI Express* memory Guest Physical
Address (GPA) to Host Physical Address (HPA). PCI devices are directly assigned to a virtual
machine leading to a robust and efficient virtualization.
3.4.16
KVM/Serial Over LAN (SOL) Function
These functions support redirection of keyboard, mouse, and text screen to a terminal window
on a remote console. The keyboard, mouse, and text redirection enables the control of the client
machine through the network without the need to be physically near that machine. Text, mouse,
and keyboard redirection allows the remote machine to control and configure the client by
entering BIOS setup. The KVM/SOL function emulates a standard PCI serial port and redirects
the data from the serial port to the management console using LAN. KVM has additional
requirements of internal graphics and SOL may be used when KVM is not supported.
3.4.17
IDE-R Function
The IDE-R function is an IDE Redirection interface that provides client connection to
management console ATA/ATAPI devices. When booting from IDE-R, the IDE-R interface will
send the client’s ATA/ATAPI command to the management console. The management console
will then provide a response command back to the client. A remote machine can setup a
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