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PCI1131 Two-Socket PCI-to-CardBus™ Controller

Key Technical Features

• Meets the Microsoft® PC 97 design guidelines for CardBus and PC Card™ controllers in future generation systems, providing compatibility with the Microsoft family of Windows® operating system

• Next generation device, following on the industry's first CardBus controller and de facto standard by market share (PCI1130)

• Compliant with Peripheral Component Interconnect (PCI) Local Bus specification 2.1
  • Separate configuration spaces for two sockets
  • Capable of acting as PCI master or slave
  • Universal I/Os provide compatibility with 3.3-V and 5-V PCI signaling environments

• Compliant with 1995 PC Card standard
  • Two sockets support both 32-bit CardBus and/or 16-bit PC Card cards simultaneously
  • Mix-and-match capability supports 3.3- or 5-V cards, or one of each voltage simultaneously

• Power-on ("hot") insertion and removal of cards in sockets

• Burst transfers maximize data throughput on the PCI and CardBus buses

• Video Options
  • Accepts 32-bit video signals from CardBus video capture card for high-resolution, high-speed video
  • Zoom Video feature routes video and audio signals directly to graphics controller for 16 bit Zoom Video cards

• Power management capabilities
  • Half the power consumption of previous generation device
  • 3.3-V core logic assures low power consumption at all times
  • Hardware and software suspend modes enable the system to power off the device between keystrokes while internal registers are saved
  • Compatible with 5V or 3.3V PC Card or 3.3V CardBus cards

• Design Flexibility
  • PCI Way (distributed) direct memory access (DMA) or PC/PCI DMA (centralized DMA)
  • System interrupts programmable as PCI or ISA styles

• Compact packaging: 208-pin Thin Quad Flatpack (TQFP)
  • Easy migration by being pin-for-pin compatible with previous generation devices
  • Minimizes space requirements

Trademarks:
PC Card and CardBus are trademarks of the Personal Computer Memory Card International Association.

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