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**82496/491     Cache Controller / Cache RAM (for P5 Pentium) 03/22/93
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**82497/492   Cache Controller / Cache RAM (for P54 Pentium)    <Nov94...
**82498/493   Cache Controller / Cache RAM (for P54 Pentium)    <Nov94...
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**5596/5513      (Genesis) Pentium PCI Chipset               <03/26/96
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**5597/5598      (Jedi)    Pentium PCI/ISA Chipset           <04/15/97
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Nowadays, several PC  form factors exist in the  PC board market, such
as  NLX, LPX,  ATX  and Baby-AT  form  factors. Due  to the  different
placements  of the  form factor,  PC chipsets  should be  prepared for
different board  layouts. As a  result, SiS chips based  on compatible
logic design provide two series of chipsets, SiS 5597 and SiS 5598, to
assist board designers for their board layouts.

SiS 5597’s pin assignment is based  on NLX, and LPX form factor, while
SiS 5598’s is defined on the basis of ATX and Baby-AT form factors. In
the next few chapters, you will read “SiS Chip” which indicates either
SiS 5597 or  5598 chipsets, decided by the  placements of form factors
on PC boards of customers.

The  SiS Chip  with built-in  VGA  controller is  a highly  integrated
single chip solution for Pentium PCI/ISA system. A portion of on-board
DRAM is  shared with the integrated  VGA controller. In  that way, the
system cost  is substantially  reduced and on-board  DRAM can  be used
flexibly.

The  SiS Chip  consists of  Host-to-PCI  bridge function,  PCI to  ISA
bridge  function,  PCI IDE  function,  Universal  Serial Bus  host/hub
function, Integrated RTC, Integrated Keyboard Controller and Graphics/
Video accelerate function.

SiS Chip  supports Enhanced  Power Management, including  legacy Power
Management  Unit  and   Advanced  Configuration  and  Power  Interface
(ACPI).  It also  supports ATA  Synchronous DMA  transfer  protocol to
improve  the IDE performance  and Common  Architecture for  moving ISA
function to PCI to improve system performance.

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**530/5595       (Sinbad) Host, PCI, 3D Graphics & Mem. Ctrl.<11/10/98...
**540            (Spartan) Super7 2D/3D Ultra-AGP Single C.S.<11/30/99...
**55x            SoC (System-on-chip)                        <03/14/02...
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**Support chips:
**85C206     Integrated Peripheral Controller [no datasheet]         ?...
**5595       Pentium PCI System I/O                          <12/24/97...
**950        LPC I/O                                         <07/16/99...
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**VL82C541/543     Lynx                                            c95
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**VL82C591/593     SuperCore 590                                   c94...
**VL82C594/596/597 Wildcat                                         c95...
**I/O Chips:
**VL82C106 Combination I/O chip                                      ?...
**VL82C107 SCAMP  Combination I/O chip                               ?...
**VL82C108 TOPCAT Combination I/O chip                               ?...
**VL82C110 Combination I/O chip                                      ?...
**VL82C113 SCAMP  Combination I/O chip                               ?...
**VL82C114 Combination I/O chip                                      ?...
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