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Chapter 1: Overview
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Audio – Intel High Definition Audio and HD Codec driving/receiving these interfaces
from the backplane (Jack detect support on all ports)
Speaker out L/R with 3W/channel amplifier on motherboard.
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Headphone out (port can be re-tasked using HD audio)
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MIC in (port can be re-tasked using HD audio)
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Additional audio out port (for future use)
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LPC Bus
LPC driven onto backplane to interface SuperIO or other LPC devices elsewhere in the
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USB
Support for High Speed USB devices, support for USB port disable
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All 12 USB ports available on Cantiga are driven into the backplane
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A single over-current signal is received from the backplane.
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PCI Express
The motherboard drives two PCI Express x1 interfaces into the backplane
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SATA
Three SATA ports driven onto backplane
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Support for two hard disk drives and one optical disk drive
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Intel Matrix Storage Manager (includes RAID) supported on all ports
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AMT
Full support for Intel AMT 4.0 including out of band functions
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LAN
Intel 82567 Platform LAN connect with 10/100/1000 Ethernet support LAN
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BIOS Hardware Support
BIOS resident in the 32MB SPI Flash device
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Support for ACPI, SMBIOS
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Security
TPM 1.2 module integrated into ICH9M in chipset
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