Description
- January 1998 Highlights PRELIMINARY April 1998 PC87570 Keyboard and Power Management Controller Highlights General .
The PC87570 is a highly integrated embedded RISC-based controller optimized for power management (PM), keyboard and mouse (KBC) and system control in.
Features
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Shared BIOS memory Fully ACPI-compliant embedded controller Proprietary PS/2 shift mechanism Extremely low current consumption in Idle mode Support for a variety of off-chip wake-up sources Scalable design for growth without controller upgrade
Block Diagram
CR16A Core
Processing Unit
Applications
* The PC87570 incorporates National’s CompactRISC™ CR16A core, a high performance 16-bit RISC processor core, a Bus Interface Unit (BIU) that directly interfaces with memory and I/O devices, on-chip memory and system support functions. Among these are legacy functions, handled by the Host Bus Interfa