Revision as of 14:13, 2 July 2014 edit MurphEngineer (talk \| contribs) 24 edits major copy-editing and rewriting ← Previous edit		Revision as of 18:29, 6 July 2014 edit undo Jesse Viviano (talk \| contribs) Administrators 17,712 edits →Tasks: Debugging implies stepping through code and reading memory contents to find a bug in a program. Remediation is repair of a computer. Also, beef up the stuff about thermal measurement. Next edit →
Line 12: Turning the computer on and off Controlling charging of the computer's [[battery]] Thermal measurement and ~~management,~~response including fan control, [[Dynamic frequency scaling\|CPU throttling]], and emergency shutdown in response to rising temperatures Placing the computer into ([[standby]]) or resuming from standby Controlling indicator [[LED]]s Performing [[Cryptography\|cryptographic]] functions *Allowing remote diagnostics and ~~debugging~~remediation As a core system component, the embedded controller is always on when power is supplied to the mainboard. To communicate with the main computer system, several forms of communication can be used, including [[Advanced Configuration and Power Interface\|ACPI]], [[SMBus]], or [[Shared memory\|shared memory]].

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