W83697HF

The W83697HF is evolving product from Winbond's most popular I/O family. They feature a whole new interface, namely LPC (Low Pin Count) interface, which will be supported in the new generation chip-set.

This interface as its name suggests is to provide an economical implementation of I/O's interface with lower pin count and still maintains equivalent performance as its ISA interface counterpart. Approximately 40 pin counts are saved in LPC I/O comparing to ISA implementation. With this additional freedom, we can implement more devices on a single chip as demonstrated in W83697HF's integration of Game Port and MIDI Port. It is fully transparent in terms of software which means no BIOS or device driver update is needed except chip-specific configuration.

The disk drive adapter functions of W83697HF include a floppy disk drive controller compatible with the industry standard 82077/ 765, data separator, write pre-compensation circuit, decode logic, data rate selection, clock generator, drive interface control logic, and interrupt and DMA logic. The wide range of functions integrated onto the W83697HF greatly reduces the number of components required for interfacing with floppy disk drives. The W83697HF supports four 360K, 720K, 1.2M, 1.44M, or 2.88M disk drives and data transfer rates of 250 Kb/s, 300 Kb/s, 500 Kb/s,1 Mb/s, and 2 Mb/s.

The W83697HF provides two high-speed serial communication ports (UARTs), one of which supports serial Infrared communication. Each UART includes a 16-byte send/receive FIFO, a programmable baud rate generator, complete modem control capability, and a processor interrupt system. Both UARTs provide legacy speed with baud rate up to 115.2k bps and also advanced speed with baud rates of 230k, 460k, or 921k bps which support higher speed modems. In addition, the W83697HF provides IR functions: IrDA 1.0 (SIR for 1.152K bps) and TV remote IR (Consumer IR, supporting NEC, RC-5, extended RC-