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**A note on VESA support of 486 chipsets.
Many chipsets state  that they support VESA local  bus.  In some cases
these actually  implement VLB somewhat  like PCI, where it  is entirly
decoupled from the CPU bus. Chipsets  that do not state they work with
VLB,  may  be found  on  motherboards  that  contain VLB  slots.   VLB
is  *basically*  The 486  CPU  pinout in  a  slot  form. Unless  these
m/boards contain  some additional  chips, there VLB  implementation is
directly coupled to the CPU.

**Datasheets:...
*_IBM...
*ACC Micro...
*ALD...
*ALi...
*AMD . . . . . . . [no datasheets, some info]...
*Chips & Technologies...
*Contaq  . . . . . [no datasheets, some info]...
*Efar Microsystems [no datasheets, some info]...
*ETEQ...
*Faraday...
*Forex . . . . . . [List only, no datasheets found]...
*Intel...
**82485       Turbo Cache (and 485Turbocache)                      c90
***Notes:...
***Info:...
***Versions:...
***Features:...
**82489DX       Advanced Programmable Interrupt Controller    10/12/92...
**82495DX/490DX DX CPU-Cache Chip Set                           <Sep91...
**82495XP/490XP Cache Controller / Cache RAM (for i860)       06/05/91...
**82496/491     Cache Controller / Cache RAM (for P5 Pentium) 03/22/93...
**82497/492   Cache Controller / Cache RAM (for P54 Pentium)    <Nov94...
**82498/493   Cache Controller / Cache RAM (for P54 Pentium)    <Nov94...
**
**Later chipsets (basic spec):
**440 series:...
**450NX  (?)            06/29/98:...
**?????  (Profusion)    c:99...
**800 series...
*Headland/G2...
*HMC (Hulon Microelectronics)...
*Logicstar...
*Motorola...
*OPTi...
**82C556/7/8N    Viper-N  Viper Notebook Chipset             <05/25/95
***Notes:...
***Info:...
***Configurations:...
***Features:
CPU Interface
o   Fully supports Intel’s 3.3V Pentium Processor and dual processor 
    configuration at 50, 60, and 66.667MHz
o   Supports P54C, P55C, K5, and M1 processors
o   Supports the Cyrix M1 Processor linear burst mode
o   Three chip solution:
    - 82C556 DBC (Data Buffer Controller) in a 160-pin PQFP (Plastic 
      Quad Flat Pack) or 176-pin TQFP (Thin Quad Flat Pack)
    - 82C557 SYSC (System Controller) in a 208-pin PQFP or TQFP
    - 82C558N IPC (Integrated Peripherals Controller) in a 208-pin 
      PQFP or TQFP
o   Supports CPU address pipelining

Cache Interface
o   Write-back/write-through, direct-mapped cache with size 
    selections: 64KB, 128KB, 256KB, 1MB and 2MB
o   Support for synchronous and asynchronous SRAMs, pipelined sync- 
    hronous SRAMs, and Intel standard BSRAMs (BiCMOS SRAMs)
o   Support for the Sony SONIC-ZWPT Cache Module
o   Programmable cache write policy:
    - Write-back
    - Write-through
    - Adaptive write-back
o   Built-in tag auto-invalidation circuitry
o   Fully programmable 3-2-2-2 asynchronous cache burst read/Write 
    cycles, 3-1-1-1/2-1-1-1 burst read/write support at 66/50MHz
o   Options for cacheable, write protected. system and video BIOS

DRAM Interface
o   Supports six banks of 64-bit wide DRAMs with 256KB, 512KB. 1MB, 
    2MB, 4MB, 8MB and 16MB addressing page mode DRAMs
o   Supports DRAM configurations up to 512MB
o   Supports 3-3-3-3 pipelined DRAM burst cycles
o   64-bit DRAM post write buffer
o   Programmable drive currents for the DRAM control signals
o   Hidden refresh with CAS-before-RAS refresh supported
o   Support for two programmable non-cacheable memory regions

PCI Interface
o   Interfaces the CPU and standard buses to both Peripheral Component 
    Interconnect (PCI) and VL bus operating in synchronous/async- 
    hronous modes, with VL bus always running at PCI bus operating 
    frequency
o   Supports three PCI masters, one VL slave, and six ISA peripherals
o   Supports PCI pre-snoop for PCI masters
o   PCI byte/word merge support for CPU accesses to PCI bus,‘ and 
    support for PCI pre-fetch
o   Burst mode PCI accesses to local memory supported

Miscellaneous
o   Integrated two drive VL-based IDE controller
o   Self-refresh supported during Suspend mode
o   Support for flash ROM
o   Shadow RAM option
o   Transparent 8042 emulation for fast CPU reset and Gate A20 
    generation
o   Supports Port 092h, fast Gate A20 and fast reset
o   Includes a fully integrated 82C206 with external real-time clock 
    (RTC) interface

**82C556M/7M/8E  Viper-N+ Viper Notebook Chipset                  c:96...
**82C566/7/8     Viper-Max Chipset Scalable MultiMedia PC Solution   ?...
**82C571/572     486/Pentium                                      c:93...
**82C576/7/8     Viper Xpress  [no datasheet]                        ?...
**82C576/8/9     Viper XPress+ [no datasheet, some info]     <01/16/97...
**82C596/597     PTMAWB Pentium Adaptive Write-back (Cobra)       c:93...
**82C650/1/2     Discovery (Pentium Pro) [no datasheet]              ?...
**82C681/2/6/7   386/486WB EISA                                   c:92...
**82C683         386/486AWB EISA [no datasheet]                      ?...
**82C693/6/7     Pentium uP Write Back Cache EISA                 c:93...
**82C700         FireStar                                         c:97...
**82C701         FireStar Plus                                    c:97...
**82C750         Vendetta      [no datasheet]                        ?...
**82c801         SCWB2 DX Single Chip Solution                    c:92...
**82C802         SCWB2 PC/AT Single Chip [no datasheet]              ?...
**82C802G/GP     System/Power Management Controller (cached)      c:93...
**82C895         System/Power Management Controller (cached)   c:Sep94...
**82C898         System/Power Management Controller (non-cache)c:Nov94...
**
**Support Chips:
**82C601/2       Buffer Devices                                 <Nov94...
**82C822         PCIB (VLB-to-PCI bridge)                         c:94...
**Other:...
*PC CHIPS/Amptron/Atrend/ECS/Elpina/etc...
*SIS...
*Symphony...
*TI (Texas Instruments)...
*UMC...
*Unresearched:...
*VIA...
*VLSI...
*Western Digital...
*Winbond...
*ZyMOS...
*General Sources:...

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