GENERAL DESCRIPTION
is an evolving version of the W83782D/G --- Winbond's most popular hardware status monitoring IC. Besides the conventional functions of W83782D/G, W83791D/G uniquely provides several innovative features such as speech function, ASF sensor compliant, SMBus 2.0 ARP command compatible, VID table selection trapping, and 5VID output control. Conventionally, W83791D/G can be used to monitor several critical hardware parameters of the system, including power supply voltages, fan speeds, and temperatures, which are very important for a high-end computer system to work stably and efficiently. As for data access, W83791D/G provides slave SMBus 2.0 interface which can reply PEC (Packet Error Code) when as ASF sensor. An 8-bit analog-to-digital converter (ADC) was built inside W83791D/G. W83791D/G can simultaneously monitor 10 analog voltage inputs (including power VDD/5VSB monitoring), 5 fan tachometer inputs, 3 remote temperatures, and one case open detection signal. The sense of remote temperature can be performed by thermistors, 2N3904 NPN-type transistors, or directly from IntelTM CPU with thermal diode output.
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