Southbridge

From Free60 Project

The SIS southbridge:

  • two SATA ports (for DVD drive and HDD)
  • 6 USB2 ports (2 for front, 1 for rear/WiFi, 2 for memory unit ports, 1 for RF module)
  • 100Mbit Ethernet MAC (SMC) (with BCM5241 PHY chip)
  • consumer IR port for remote control
  • audio output and XMA decoder DSP
  • NAND flash interface
  • 'Front bus': two wire I2C like interface to RF module. Used for example to control LEDs around power button
  • SMBUS: available on J201, pins 7 & 8

There is a an on-board TPM security chip by Infineon. See http://www.extremetech.com/article2/0,1697,1853986,00.asp for details.