National Semiconductor's PC8739x family of LPC SuperI/O devices is targetted for a wide range of portable applications. PC99 and ACPI compliant, the PC8739x family features an X-Bus Extension for read and write operations over the X-Bus, a full IEEE 1284 Parallel Port with a Parallel Port Multiplexer (PPM) for external Floppy Disk Drive (FDD) support, a Musical Instrument Digital Interface (MIDI) port, and a Game port. Like all National LPC SuperI/O devices, the PC8739x offers a single-chip solution to the most commonly used PC I/O peripherals.
The PC8739x family also incorporates: a Floppy Disk Controller (FDC), two enhanced Serial Ports (UARTs), one with Fast Infrared (FIR, IrDA 1.1 compliant), General-Purpose Input/Output (GPIO) support for a total of 32 ports, Interrupt Serializer for Parallel IRQs and an enhanced WATCHDOG timer.
The following features apply to the PC87393F. The features for other PC8739x devices may differ. See the table at the end of the feature listing for device-specific features.