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June 11, 2001 08:01
National Introduces Family of Low Pin Count Server I/O Products Designed Specifically for Servers and Workstations
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Unique Chips Support Both the LPC Bus for Host Interface and the Serial SMBus For Embedded Controller Interface
SANTA CLARA, Calif., June 11 /PRNewswire/ -- National Semiconductor Corporation (NYSE: NSM) today introduced a new addition to its industry-leading line of server I/O products, the Low Pin Count (LPC) PC8741x family. The family's four members, the PC87417, PC87416, PC87414, and PC87413, are designed to meet the I/O needs of the entire server and workstation market, including Intel-based multiprocessor server platforms.
National's PC8741x was optimized in collaboration with both Intel and ServerWorks, a wholly owned subsidiary of Broadcom Corporation (Nasdaq: BRCM). ServerWorks, a leading independent supplier of high-performance SystemI/O(TM) integrated circuits for servers, recently announced its Grand Champion(TM) HE architecture. The 2-way and 4-way chipset from ServerWorks supports the Intel(R) Xeon(TM) processor.
"Together, National's server I/O family and Grand Champion SystemI/O(TM) provide an excellent, high performance solution for 2-way and 4-way servers using Intel's newly announced Xeon(TM) processors," said David Dorrough, marketing manager for ServerWorks.
"Intel-based server platforms demand extensive feature sets and cost effectiveness provided by products such as National Semiconductor's PC8741x," said Barry Kennedy, senior architect for Intel's Enterprise Platforms and Services Division.
Features and Benefits
The PC8741x family provides the world's first protected concurrent access from the LPC bus and a VSB powered SMBus to all internal modules and the X-Bus extension. The SMBus interface allows the Baseboard Management Controller (BMC) to perform configuration and share General Purpose I/O (GPIO) with the host. The server I/O provides an X-Bus bridge from the host interface to legacy ISA-based BMCs, for primary and alternate boot blocks, for host/BMC-shared memory, and for existing X-Bus devices that are not ported to LPC.
The server I/O economically links the host(s) with the BMC saving glue logic for advanced protection schemes while masking serial IRQ and chip select. A VSB powered high frequency clock generator integrated into the server I/O for the BMC and its support logic lowers total system cost. The PC8741x family offers extensive, ACPI-compliant power management support. In addition, the PC8741x family enables extremely low current consumption in the battery back-up mode, allowing longer battery life.
"National realized that servers and workstations have special requirements not met with standard Super I/O's," said Jonathan Levy, director of National's Advanced I/O Division. "The PC8741x family of server I/Os allows our partners and customers to realize functions not possible with other Super I/O solutions. It is the optimum I/O solution for LPC-based servers."
Pricing and Availability
The entire PC8741x family is available immediately in volume quantities. In 1,000 unit quantities, the full-feature PC87417 is priced at $8.75; the PC87416 without the ACCESS.Bus feature is priced at $7.75; the PC87414 without the ACCESS.Bus and X-Bus feature is priced at $7.50; and the PC87413 without the X-Bus feature is priced at $8.40.
About National Semiconductor
National Semiconductor is the premier analog company driving the information age. Combining real-world analog and state-of-the-art digital technology, the company is focused on the fast growing markets for wireless handsets; information appliances; information infrastructure; and display, imaging and human interface technologies. With headquarters in Santa Clara, California, National reported sales of $2.1 billion for its last fiscal year and has about 10,000 employees worldwide. Additional company and product information is available on the World Wide Web at www.national.com.
NOTE: National is a registered trademark of National Semiconductor Corporation. All other brand or product names are trademarks or registered trademarks of their respective holders.
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