CN1658165A - Device and program for monitoring computer mainframe and power supply - Google Patents

Device and program for monitoring computer mainframe and power supply Download PDF

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CN1658165A
CN1658165A CN2005100184010A CN200510018401A CN1658165A CN 1658165 A CN1658165 A CN 1658165A CN 2005100184010 A CN2005100184010 A CN 2005100184010A CN 200510018401 A CN200510018401 A CN 200510018401A CN 1658165 A CN1658165 A CN 1658165A
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A device and process which will monitor the computer's shell and electric source, and it relates to the expansion of SMBus and the use of SMBus slug. The device can be set in the electric source unit and/or on the expansion board. Then it will use the monitor circuit to measure the voltage, the temperature and the speed of rotation of the fan in the shell and the device in the power. After that, it will input the temperature value as feedback signal into SMBus slug. The slug will output the calculated value and after the value is enlarged, it can control the speed of rotation to become a closed loop. The SMBus, the PCI Express board, The PCI board and the PCI-X board are linked to the SMBus interface on the king plank. The positive effect is that intelligent shell and power can be made up to make the computer have no noise to save energy. Besides, through the communication of SMBus and the host computer, the application program can monitor the running state in real time, so it does good to administrating the computer's system device.

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The device of monitoring computer casing and power supply and program
Technical field
The present invention relates to the application of computer system management bus (SMBus) expansion and device thereof, comprise device and the program of forming circuit supervision computer housing and power supply with the System Management Bus chip.
Background technology
Computer housing and power supply computer housing are the important accessories of computer, common form has ATX, BTX, the computer server cabinet is then bigger, all is mounted with equipment such as mainboard, CPU, internal memory, display card, hard disk, CD-ROM drive therein, perhaps expands SCSI, I/O analog input card etc.Because the computer thermal value is bigger; cabinet cools off with ventilation fan usually; one of equipment in the cabinet is computer power, and its input 220V/110V AC power is through rectifying and wave-filtering; PWM control; protective circuit of voltage regulation etc. output energy is supplied with computer, voltage has+5V ,+12V ,+3.3V ,-5V ,-12V and+5VSB etc. because heat is bigger during power work; so the ventilation fan cooling is also arranged, the duty of the operating condition direct relation computer of fan.
The present most of computer motherboards of computer hardware monitoring circuit all are equipped with automatic observation circuit, can monitor the operation conditions of host computer such as voltage, cpu temperature, cpu fan rotating speed etc. in real time, monitoring chip (for example LM85, LM63) has A/D conversion and I/O interface, and a lot of device has SMBus.The hardware monitoring circuit can be regulated rotation speed of the fan automatically according to temperature signal in the computer operational process, gives computer heat radiation, and when temperature descended, rotation speed of the fan reduced automatically; When temperature rose, the wind speed rotating speed rose automatically, has reduced fan noise like this, has saved electric weight, has prolonged fan life, can guarantee that computer system effectively works.
SMBus is the chip chamber serial communication bus that Intel proposes, and comprises a data lines SMBDAT and a clock line SMBCLK, and each bus device all has an address, can constitute the expansion of peripheral components easily.The characteristics of SMBus are that bus interface all has been integrated in the device, does not need to add the bus interface circuit in addition, and the characteristics of plug and play (Plug and play) are arranged.The peripheral components of all band SMBus interfaces all has answering, in computer, be widely used: as south bridge family chip ICH4, ICH5, the ICH6 (I/OController HUB 6) of Intel, or with the South Bridge chip VIA8233 of the product compatibility of Intel, AMD768 etc. all can communicate with mode and the miscellaneous equipment of SMBus.On a lot of electronic equipments, also possesses SMBus.The PCI Express standard of computer, PCI standard (behind PCI2.3), PCI-X standard and CNR standard are all supported SMBus.
I 2The C bus is by the I of Philips exploitation 2C (I2C) bus has standard and numerous band I of standard 2The peripheral components of C interface, I 2The characteristics of C are the independence of structure and the simplicity that the user uses.And SMBus is I 2A subclass (subset) of C bus/protocol, a lot of I 2The compatible SMBus of C bus device, many can directly on SMBus, the use.
Though prior art has had above-mentioned all development, but present monitoring to equipment in the computer housing only limits to the supervisory circuit on computer main board, do not solve the monitoring of miscellaneous equipment in the cabinet, all there is not rotational speed regulation as case fan and power supply fan, the height of device temperature is irrelevant with rotation speed of the fan in cabinet and the power supply, fan is in the full speed running state all the time, and certain noise is arranged, and also can't monitor their running status.
Summary of the invention
Purpose of the present invention is exactly the above-mentioned defective at prior art, and a kind of device and program with System Management Bus expansion and monitoring computer casing and power supply is provided; Problems of measurement such as temperature, rotation speed of the fan and voltage with equipment in settlement computer cabinet and the power supply, and then, reduce noise, save power according to the automatic rotation speed of the fan of regulating of its temperature height, and, monitor their running status in real time by program by SMBus and main-machine communication.
The object of the present invention is achieved like this:
1, device
The device of a kind of monitoring computer casing and power supply is used for the monitoring of cabinet and power supply device parameter, and it comprises: (contrast Fig. 1 and Fig. 2)
Monitoring chip with SMBus, temperature sensor, amplification driving circuit, the input voltage match circuit, fan, the tachometric survey circuit, power supply, SMBus and SMBus interface, monitoring chip with SMBus respectively with temperature sensor, amplification driving circuit, the tachometric survey circuit, power supply, the input voltage match circuit is connected with SMBus, it is characterized in that: each monitoring chip with SMBus all is the slave unit of computer SMBus on the device, install in the power supply unit that can be installed in computer at least and/or on the expansion board clamping, and/or be independent of in the cabinet on other integrated circuit board of motherboard, when device is installed in the power supply unit of computer, SMBus is connected with the SMBus interface, the SMBus interface is on the expansion board clamping or on the computer main board, SMBus draws from expansion slot on the expansion board clamping, and fan is a power supply fan; When device is installed on the expansion board clamping of computer, also have the fan jointing on the expansion board clamping, fan is electrically connected with jointing by jack, and SMBus draws from the expansion board slot, and fan is a case fan;
The device of described a kind of monitoring computer casing and power supply, the monitoring chip with SMBus has a temperature survey input port, a rotating speed control output end mouth at least, also has tachometric survey input port, voltage measurement input port and I/O port; Between monitoring chip with SMBus and fan, be connected with the tachometric survey circuit, between monitoring chip with SMBus and voltage measurement input port, be connected with the input voltage match circuit.
The device of described a kind of monitoring computer casing and power supply, when device is installed on the expansion board clamping of computer, there is the fan jointing that 3 pin and/or 4 pin are arranged on the expansion board clamping, its quantity is no less than the number of fans of device control, the SMBus interface is arranged on the expansion board clamping, when device was installed in the power supply unit of computer, the circuit of supervising device and the circuit of power supply were combined into one.
The device of described a kind of monitoring computer casing and power supply, temperature sensor or be semiconductor transducer, or be thermistor or be thermal resistance, air themperature in temperature sensor measurement heater members and/or the cabinet.
The device of described a kind of monitoring computer casing and power supply, the expansion board clamping of device be the PCI plate or/and PCI-X plate or PCI Express plate or/and the CNR plate, wherein the PCIExpress buttress comprises X1, X2,4X, X8, X16 and X32 plate according to the bus bit wide.
The device of described a kind of monitoring computer casing and power supply, the monitoring chip that on SMBus, uses, can for a kind of can with the I of SMBus compatibility 2The monitoring chip of C (I2C) bus.
The device of described a kind of monitoring computer casing and power supply, the clock SMBCLK line of SMBus and data SMBDATA line are connected with SMBus interface on PCI Express plate, PCI plate, PCI-X plate, CNR plate and the motherboard.
The device of described a kind of monitoring computer casing and power supply, the existing power supply that the working power of device and fan power supply use computer to provide, power supply is connected with the monitoring chip with SMBus, amplification driving circuit and fan respectively.
The device of described a kind of monitoring computer casing and power supply, the speed-regulating fan of the fan working voltage of device control, fan can the output speed count signals, and fan is connected with tachometric survey circuit, amplification driving circuit; The optional position of fan installation site in computer housing: in the power supply unit, on the chassis shell, have on the integrated circuit (IC) chip of heating radiator, in the extending bracket.
The device of described a kind of monitoring computer casing and power supply, a computer can have more than one this device, and an amplification driving circuit of each this device can the more than one fan of driven in synchronism, and the rotating speed of each fan can be measured respectively.
The device of described a kind of monitoring computer casing and power supply, computer is server, workstation, PC and has CPU and the network equipment of SMBus controller, communication facilities, ATM, intelligence instrument, described cabinet overall dimensions are unrestricted, and described power supply provides one at least for every computer.Each SMBus device has one 7 bit address, can expand 127 bus devices in theory, should note the requirement of SMBus standard to load capacitance simultaneously.
2, program is formed the device of monitoring computer casing and power supply by a kind of with the SMBus chip, transmits data and instruction by SMBus, communicates by letter with host computer, is used for realizing on computers:
Realize the measurement of temperature amount and the function of demonstration; Realize the measurement of voltage and the function of demonstration;
Realize the function of measurement, demonstration and the control of rotation speed of the fan, the above-mentioned parameter of its demonstration has title, value and unit.
Further, when measured above-mentioned parameter is higher or lower than the numerical value of setting, program can be called the warning subroutine: sounding, glimmering shows or/and send Email, program can be with reference record on storage medium, program may operate under the Graphic Operating System of Microsoft company at least, and program and reference record are on the storage medium of computer.
5, the present invention has the following advantages and good effect.
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Because be that its method and apparatus is simple with equipment in SMBus chip monitoring computer casing and the power supply.
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Form intelligent cabinet and power-supply system, reduce noise, environmental protection and energy saving, and communicate by letter with host computer by SMBus, by the program monitoring running status, help to manage equipment such as computer housing and power supply.
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Compatible good, ratio of performance to price height has broad application prospects.
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The topology form of Fig. 1-SMBus of the present invention;
SMBus master controller (Master) is existing on the host computer among the figure, and cabinet and power monitoring chip can have a plurality of slave units as slave unit (Slave);
The composition block scheme of Fig. 2-monitoring computer casing and supply unit;
Composition and the interconnected relationship of having represented the device of monitoring computer casing and power supply among the figure;
The circuit theory diagrams that Fig. 3-embodiment 1 and example 4 are used;
Fig. 4-embodiment 1 motherboard SMBus interface;
The circuit ultimate principle figure that Fig. 5-embodiment 2, example 3, example 5 are used;
Position of fan signal for example in Fig. 6-computer housing;
Among the figure: 1, power supply fan A, 2, power supply fan B, 3, case fan A, 4, case fan B, 5, carriage supervisory circuit plate, 6, bracket arm fan, 7, extending bracket, 8, computer housing, 9, computer motherboard;
Fig. 7-computer integrated circuit board SMBus expansion interface and fan joint;
Among the figure: 10,3 pin fan joints, 11,4 pin fan joints, 12, the computer expansion board clamping, 13, the SMBus expansion interface;
The main program flow chart of Fig. 8-a kind of monitoring computer casing and power supply program.
During main acceptance, first byte (from the address) is sent by master controller, and slave unit returns a response bits then, and next slave unit sends data to master controller; During main the transmission, first byte that master controller sends is the slave unit address, and next master controller sends data to slave unit.
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The present invention is further described below in conjunction with drawings and Examples.
Following embodiment device has all been used the monitoring chip of band SMBus, these chips are usually used in computer motherboard hardware monitoring circuit, rotating speed control as cpu temperature monitoring and cpu fan, its using method and circuit develop in the monitoring chip instructions, here the device of being transplanted to computer housing and power-supply device comes up, main difference is to change the temperature monitoring object in computer housing and the power supply hot-air and heater members, controlled fan becomes the fan of optional position in the cabinet, and the control of monitoring chip and communication role are constant, by SMBus and main-machine communication, by their running status of program monitoring, the characteristic information that has comprised monitoring chip and monitored object in the program transmits the real time data and the host command of monitored object with SMBus.
In the used SMBus monitoring chip register is arranged, can be according to the request for utilization of cabinet and power-supply device, the programming tool that provides by the monitoring chip manufacturer writes given coefficient and state, if being provided with, the user do not Use Defaults automatically, as temperature alarming limit value, A/D switching rate and the selection of I/O port etc. (seeing the explanation of SMBus monitoring chip and programming tool for details), also can onlinely change with program.
With South Bridge chip on the mainboard of Intel computer and clone thereof is example, South Bridge chip inside provides SMBus primary controller, as ICH6 (82801F), ICH6 inside provides a SMBus primary controller, for processor and the communication of SMBus slave unit provide condition, have only master controller to realize management and to detect to SMBus, as initial, stop, tranmitting data register etc., as not with the SMBus interface device of CPU, in bus, can only do to use from device, all are read, write operation all can reduce the master mode of SMBus, and write operation is main send mode, and read operation is main accepting method.The compatible most I of above-mentioned SMBus mode of operation 2The C bus device.Embodiment 1 is as Fig. 3, computer uses the two cpu server mainboards of ASUS in this example, model is PR-DLS533, on this mainboard, has Intel South Bridge chip CSB5 (Champion South Bridge 5) and SMBus interface, interface plug such as Fig. 4, connect SMBCLK line and SMBDAT line from it to power supply unit, Floating does not use.Supervising device circuit such as Fig. 3, circuit use the LM63 chip to make monitoring chip, and 7 pin of LM63 chip and 8 pin are SMBus interfaces, and LM63 is a slave unit on the SMBus here, and the address of devices of LM63 is 1001100, and the major function of LM63 is as follows:
Use 2N3904 transistor or PN junction thermometric, D+, D-hold input
Automatically revise self-heating effect, temperature survey in 1 group of sheet
Support built-in 2 utmost point pipe thermometric modes of P4 or P4-m processor
Integrated PWM function of controlling fan rotating speed, PWM holds output
8 grades of speed changes able to programme are regulated, and reduce noise
Have the rotation speed of the fan counting, TACH holds input
Register compensation offset temperature
Multi-functional anti-ALERT/ rotating speed counting is selected input
10 bit digital counting, minimum 0.125 degree of differentiating of temperature
The SMBus2.0 specification is supported the overtime TIMEOUT that overflows
Compatible LM86 family device
The 8 pin design of simplifying
Here the LM63 working power is used 3.3V, the power supply existing power supply of originating, on the D+ of LM63 and D-terminal, insert 2N3904, be installed in 2N3904 on the heat radiator of power supply as sensor, experience the temperature of device, in LM63, finish the A/D conversion, 4 pin output pwm signals from LM63, through R1, R2, Q1 forms amplifying circuit, drives DC fan, and fan uses+12 power supplys in the circuit, fan is power supply fan B or the A among Fig. 6, the tachometric survey of fan is through R3, R4, the tachometric survey match circuit that R5 forms is from the 6 pin input speed count pulses of LM63, like this according to the temperature variation of heater members in the power supply, the temperature varitrol that described element is formed can reduce or the rotating speed of rising fan, relevant control function is carried out in LM63, and supervisory circuit combines with the circuit of power supply, uses a circuit board.By the SMBus transceive data on the LM63, with the running status of this device of program monitoring, Fig. 8 is the main program flow chart of monitoring computer casing and power supply program.
But only have the SMBus interface on the minority computer main board,, will use a kind of SMBus interface extending device for broader applications and the user is provided more more options.
Circuit theory such as Fig. 5 of embodiment 2. present embodiments, the present embodiment computer uses ATX power supply and 915/925 serial mainboard, at first in Fig. 7 on the expansion board clamping of computer, present embodiment is provided with the SMBus interface extending device on PCI ExpressX1 plate, the SMBus interface extending device is formed shown among Fig. 7 13, the SMBus interface extending device has 4 pins: SMBCLK, SMBDAT, power Vcc, the neutral gear of a ground GND and a location, the clock line SMBCLK of SMBus and data line SMBDAT are from the B5 of computer integrated circuit board slot, B6 draws, Vcc=3.3V in the present embodiment, the B8 of slave plate card slot draws, and the B7 of G slave plate card slot draws.
By the SMBus interface extending device, draw SMBDAT and SMBCLK from computer PCI ExpressX1 plate, connect the SMBus of monitoring chip, to SMBDAT and the SMBCLK of circuit LM85 to the computer power supervisory circuit.Supervisory circuit combines with the circuit of power supply, use a circuit board and the existing power supply on it, LM85 is used for power supply supervisory circuit, LM85 device default address is 0101110, also can be changed to 0101100 or 0101101 by PWM3/AddEnable and TACH4/Addsel selection, so on the SMBus 3 LM85 can be arranged simultaneously, but its monitoring parameter comprises: voltage, temperature, rotation speed of the fan, built-in 8 ADC, 3 groups of PWM output control rotation speeds of the fan are provided, and by application program, the user can monitor measured parameter at any time, and the information that when parameter is out-of-limit, gives a warning, the user can be provided with the height of parameter voluntarily, low limit value.
The major function of LM85 is as follows:
The SMBus2.0 specification, SMBDAT, SMBCLK
Temperature survey passage tool digital filtering
Automatically control based on thermometric fan able to programme
Temperature survey in 1 group of sheet, 2 groups of external temperatures are measured: RE1+, RE1-, RE2+, RE2-
Vccp_IN, 5V, 12V, 2.5V, 5 groups of voltage measurements of 3.3V (built-in match circuit)
Built-in 8 A/D converters, minimum 1 degree of differentiating of temperature
3 groups of PWM rotation speed of the fan control outputs: PWM1, PWM2, PWM3
4 groups of rotation speed of the fan countings input: TACH1, TACH2, TACH3, TACH4
Temperature-measuring range: 0-125 degree
5 VID monitoring side: VID0, VID1, VID2, VID3, VID4
The design of 24 pin, the QSOP encapsulation
XOR tree (XOR-tree) test model
Monitor the working condition of power supply fan and other device among Fig. 5 with LM85, can use this chip voltage to measure supply voltage, share the task of hardware monitoring circuit on the main frame, also can resistor voltage divider circuit be arranged, make it to measure other non-nominal threshold voltage range at the input end of voltage measurement.T1 is used for temperature survey among Fig. 5, LM85 has 3 PWM control outputs, can drive 3 groups of fans respectively, power supply architecture for preposition and rearmounted fan, through a pre-power supply fan, the effect of a rearmounted power supply fan, power supply inside has constituted air flow passage efficiently, so amplify with 1 PWM1 output Q1, through QA, QB control fan A and fan B, two fans rotate co-ordination better synchronously, as long as the transistor of amplification driving circuit allows, can control a plurality of fans simultaneously, and the rotating speed of each fan can be measured respectively, use R8, R9, R10 forms tach signal and measures match circuit, and by the input of TACH1 counting, C6 is a filter capacitor, each fans drive and tachometric survey have the analogous circuit structure, according to the T1 variation of temperature,, adjust rotating speed automatically by monitoring chip LM85 control fan.
PWM2 output in another road is connected in the computer housing extending bracket in this example, see Fig. 6,3 leads that connect 2 leads of sensor T2 and fan from power supply supervisory circuit are to carriage, 6 are bracket arm fans among Fig. 6 wherein, sensor sticks on the measuring object, temperature survey is to liking heater members---hard disk, fan is installed in hard disk below or top, obviously also formed a closed-loop control system here, be temperature sensor, PWM2 output driving Q2 with T2, with the rotating speed of TACH2 measurement fan, use the control function of monitoring chip and finish.The supervising device that embodiment 3 still uses LM85 to form, the circuit ultimate principle is with Fig. 5 and example 2, supervisory circuit is on PCI ExpressX16 plate, the 12V and the 3.3V power supply that provide on the plate are provided, here be that temperature monitoring amount object is decided to be air themperature in the cabinet, with T1 onboard, PWM1 output controlling object becomes case fan A and case fan B in the cabinet; PWM2 output controlling object is mounted in the fan (not shown) on the PCI ExpressX16 display card, T2 is used to measure the temperature of integrated circuit GPU on the display card, fan is connected with integrated circuit by heating radiator, and the control and the communication role of monitoring chip are constant, still by SMBus and main-machine communication, by their running status of program monitoring, case fan is from 3 pin fan joints and/or 4 pin fan joints (identical with the mainboard fan joint) output of Fig. 7, this example is used 2 fan joint outputs, 3 pin connect the rotation speed of the fan counting end respectively, the output of 12V and transistor Q, the compatible 3 pin fans of 4 pin fan joints.If TACH4 is used for address selection, then count with TACH3.In this example on the monitoring chip shown in 2.5V, Vccp-IN, 5V, PWM3 and VID# port do not use.Fan should have the plug sign in this illustration 5 circuit, does not draw for drawing is clear.
Supervisory circuit is installed in the extending bracket of computer housing as Fig. 6 in 4 examples of embodiment, wherein 6 is bracket arm fans, the 5th, carriage supervisory circuit plate, SMBus chip and peripheral cell are arranged above, the 12V power supply is obtained by computer power expansion plug, heater members is equipment such as the hard disk on the carriage, and temperature sensor T is close to above it.Make the described circuit of use-case 1 and Fig. 3, this example is provided with the SMBus interface on the PCI integrated circuit board, and be connected on the carriage supervisory circuit plate, the SMBus interface is formed shown among Fig. 7 13, the SMBus interface have 4 pins: SMBCLK, SMBDAT, power Vcc, the neutral gear of GND and a location, the clock line SMBCLK of SMBus and data line SMBDAT draw from A40, the A41 of PCI integrated circuit board slot, Vcc=3.3V in this example.Embodiment 5: use as Fig. 5 circuit in conjunction with the embodiments 2 and embodiment 3, use 2 LM85 to form 2 supervising devices, monitoring machine case and power-supply device respectively, attention is provided with 2 different addresses of LM85 chips use, with the fan counting end from the TACH4 reconfiguration to TACH3.
Above-mentioned example 1 to example 5 transmits data and instruction by SMBus, communicate by letter with host computer, realize on computers by application program: the measurement of temperature amount and the function of demonstration, the measurement of voltage and the function of demonstration, the measurement of rotation speed of the fan, demonstration and control function, the above-mentioned parameter of its demonstration has title, value and unit.
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1, the device of a kind of monitoring computer casing and power supply,
It comprises:
Monitoring chip, temperature sensor, amplification driving circuit, input voltage match circuit, fan, tachometric survey circuit, power supply, SMBus and SMBus interface with SMBus, monitoring chip with SMBus is connected with SMBus with temperature sensor, amplification driving circuit, tachometric survey circuit, power supply, input voltage match circuit respectively
It is characterized in that:
Device is used for the monitoring of cabinet and power supply equipment, and each monitoring chip with SMBus all is the slave unit of computer SMBus on the device, install in the power supply unit that can be installed in computer at least and/or on the expansion board clamping,
When device was installed in the power supply unit of computer, SMBus was connected with the SMBus interface, and the SMBus interface is on the expansion board clamping or on the computer main board, and SMBus draws from expansion slot on the expansion board clamping, and fan is a power supply fan;
When device is installed on the expansion board clamping of computer, also have the fan jointing on the expansion board clamping, fan is electrically connected with jointing by jack, and SMBus draws from the expansion board slot, and fan is a case fan.
2, press the device of described a kind of monitoring computer casing of claim 1 and power supply,
Monitoring chip with SMBus has a temperature survey input port, a rotating speed control output end mouth at least, also has tachometric survey input port, voltage measurement input port and I/O port; Between monitoring chip with SMBus and fan, be connected with the tachometric survey circuit, between monitoring chip with SMBus and voltage measurement input port, be connected with the input voltage match circuit.
3, press the device of described a kind of monitoring computer casing of claim 1 and power supply,
When device is installed on the expansion board clamping of computer, there is the fan jointing that 3 pin and/or 4 pin are arranged on the expansion board clamping, its quantity is no less than the number of fans of device control, and the SMBus interface is arranged on the expansion board clamping.
When device was installed in the power supply unit of computer, the circuit of supervising device and the circuit of power supply were combined into one;
4, press the device of described a kind of monitoring computer casing of claim 1 and power supply,
Temperature sensor or be semiconductor transducer, or be thermistor or be thermal resistance, air themperature and/or heater members temperature in temperature sensor measurement cabinet and the power supply.
5, press the device of described a kind of monitoring computer casing of claim 1 and power supply,
The expansion board clamping of device be the PCI plate or/and PCI-X plate or PCI Express plate or/and the CNR plate, wherein the PCIExpress buttress comprises X1, X2,4X, X8, X16 and X32 plate according to the bus bit wide.
6, press the device of described a kind of monitoring computer casing of claim 1 and power supply,
The monitoring chip that on SMBus, uses, can for a kind of can with the I of SMBus compatibility 2The monitoring chip of C (I2C) bus.
7, press the device of claim 1,5 described a kind of monitoring computer casings and power supply,
The clock SMBCLK line of SMBus and data SMBDATA line are connected with SMBus interface on PCI Express plate, PCI plate, PCI-X plate, CNR plate and the motherboard.
8, press the device of described a kind of monitoring computer casing of claim 1 and power supply,
The speed-regulating fan of the fan working voltage control of device, fan can the output speed count signals, and fan is connected with tachometric survey circuit, amplification driving circuit; The optional position of fan installation site in computer housing: in the power supply unit, on the chassis shell, have on the integrated circuit (IC) chip of heating radiator, in the extending bracket.
9, press the device of described a kind of monitoring computer casing of claim 1 and power supply,
A computer can have more than one this device, and an amplification driving circuit of each this device can the more than one fan of driven in synchronism, and the rotating speed of each fan can be measured respectively.
10, press the device of described a kind of monitoring computer casing of claim 1 and power supply,
Described computer is server, workstation, PC and has CPU and the network equipment of SMBus controller, communication facilities, ATM, intelligence instrument, and described cabinet overall dimensions are unrestricted, and described power supply provides one at least for every computer.
11, the program of a kind of monitoring computer casing and power supply,
Form the device of monitoring computer casing and power supply by a kind of with the SMBus chip, transmit data and instruction, communicate by letter, be used for realizing on computers with host computer by SMBus:
Realize the measurement of temperature amount and the function of demonstration;
Realize the measurement of voltage and the function of demonstration;
Realize the measurement of rotation speed of the fan and the function of demonstration,
The above-mentioned parameter of its demonstration has title, value and unit.
12, press the program of described a kind of monitoring computer casing of claim 12 and power supply,
Further, when measured above-mentioned parameter was higher or lower than the numerical value of setting, program can be called the warning subroutine: sounding, glimmering shows that or/and send Email, program can be with reference record on storage medium.
13, press the program of described a kind of monitoring computer casing of claim 12 and power supply,
Further, realize the function of rotation speed of the fan by host computer control.
14, press the program of described a kind of monitoring computer casing of claim 12 and power supply,
Program may operate under the Graphic Operating System of Microsoft company at least, and program and reference record are on the storage medium of computer.
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