ASPEED AST2500 is a 6th-generation Server Management Processor (BMC) widely used for remote server monitoring and 2D local display. ASPEED Technology Inc. Latest Datasheet & Documentation Official Product Page
A robotics company in Ohio was about to scrap 10,000 legacy industrial PCs because their remote management chips were "obsolete." The new AST2500 datasheet proved otherwise. By reconfiguring the bus using the newly documented "Multi-PHY mode," those old BMCs could talk to CAN bus controllers and Modbus sensors directly.
, supporting speeds up to 800MHz (1600Mbps) and capacities up to 1GB. : Supports PCI-Express 2.0 , compliant with PCI Express Base Spec Revision 2.0.
