Dual Serial Controller; Field Programmable Gate Array; Baseboard Management Controller - HP Integrity rx1600 Operation And Maintenance Manual

System Information
System Board
• Scratch RAM
• Real Time Clock
• UARTs
• External Registers
• Firmware read/writable registers
• Two general purpose 32-bit registers
• Semaphore registers
• Monarch selection registers
• Test and Reset register
• Reset and INIT generation

Dual Serial Controller

The dual serial controller is a dual universal asynchronous receiver and transmitter (DUART). This chip provides enhanced
UART functions with 16-byte FIFOs, a modem control interface. Registers on this chip provide onboard error indications and
operation status. An internal loopback capability provides onboard diagnostics.
Features include:
• Data rates up to 115.2kbps
• 16550A fully compatible controller
• A 16-byte transmit FIFO to reduce the bandwidth requirement of the external CPU
• A 16-byte receive FIFO with four selectable interrupt trigger levels and error flags to reduce the bandwidth requirement of
the external CPU
• UART control that provides independent transmit and receive
• Modem control signals (-CTS, -RTS, -DSR, -DTR, -RI, -CD, and software controllable line break)
• Programmable character lengths (5, 6, 7, 8) with Even, Odd or No Parity
• A status report register

Field Programmable Gate Array

The field programmable gate array (FPGA) provides ACPI and low pin count (LPC) support for HP Intel Itanium 2 platforms
based on HP chipsets. This controller is connected to the PDH bus and provides these features:
• ACPI 2.0 interface
• LPC bus interface to support BMC
• Decoding logic for PDH devices

Baseboard Management Controller

The baseboard management controller supports the industry-standard Intelligent Platform Management Interface (IPMI)
specification. This specification describes the management features that have been built into the system board. These features
include: diagnostics (both local and remote) console support, configuration management, hardware management, and
troubleshooting.
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