User`s manual
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X8SIL/X8SIL-F/X8SIL-V User’s Manual
1-8 Overview of the Nuvoton BMC Controller
The Nuvoton
SM
WPCM150 is a combined Baseboard Management Controller and
2D/VGA-compatible Graphics Core with PCI interface, Virtual Media and Keyboard,
and a Keyboard/Video/Mouse Redirection (KVMR) module.
The WPCM150 interfaces with the host system via a PCI interface to communicate
with the Graphics core. It supports USB 2.0 and 1.1 for remote keyboard/mouse/
virtual media emulation. It also provides an LPC interface to control Super I/O func-
tions and connects to the network via an external Ethernet PHY module or shared
NCSI connections.
The Nuvoton BMC communicates with onboard components via six SMBus in-
terfaces, fan control, Platform Environment Control Interface (PECI) buses, and
General Purpose I/O (T-SGPIO) ports.
It also includes the following features:
One X-Bus parallel interface for expansion I/O connections•
Three ADC inputs, Analog and Digital Video outputs•
Two serial for boundary scan and debug•
There are two different versions of the Nuvoton BMC chip that are used in this prod-
uct series. The Nuvoton WPCM150 (Manufacturer P/N WPCM150GA0BX5) which
includes all of the features above, is the chip installed in the X8SIL motherboard.
Another version, the Nuvoton WPCM450 (Manufacturer P/N WPCM450RA0BX)
also has all the features as described above plus IPMI 2.0 support. This particular
chip is installed in the X8SIL-F and X8SIL-V models. However, IPMI is supported
only on the X8SIL-F motherboard.
Note: For more information on IPMI conguration, please refer to the
Embedded IPMI User's Guide posted on our website @ http://www.super-
micro.com/support/manuals/. For detailed information regarding Nuvoton
BMC products, go to Nuvoton's website at http://www.nuvoton.com and
enter the manufacturer part numbers mentioned above in the website's
Product Search.