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**82396SX Smart Cache 12/17/90
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**82485 Turbo Cache (and 485Turbocache) c90...
**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...
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**82C895 System/Power Management Controller (cached) c:Sep94
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**82C898 System/Power Management Controller (non-cache)c:Nov94...
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**Support Chips:
**82C601/2 Buffer Devices <Nov94...
**82C822 PCIB (VLB-to-PCI bridge) c:94...
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**VT82C496G Pluto, Green PC 80486 PCI/VL/ISA System <05/30/94
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**VT82C530MV 3.3V Pentium chipset [no datasheet, some info]<05/30/94...
**VT82C570M Apollo Master, Green Pentium/P54C <06/22/95
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***Features:
o PCI/ISA Green PC Ready
o High Integration
- VT82C575M system controller
- VT82C576M PCI bus controller
- Two instances of the VT82C577M data buffers
- Glueless interface to the VT82C416 integrated clock generator,
real time clock with extended CMOS, plug and play control and
keyboard controller with PS/2 mouse support
- Ten TTLs for a complete main board implementation
o Flexible CPU Interface
- 64-bit P54C, Pentium, K5 and M1 CPU interface
- 3.3v or 5v CPU and cache interface
- CPU external bus speed up to 66Mhz (internal 150Mhz and above)
- Supports CPU internal write-back cache
- Concurrent CPU/cache and PCI/DRAM operation
- System management interrupt, memory remap and STPCLK mechanism
- Cyrix M1 linear burst support
- CPU NA#/Address pipeline capability
o Advanced Cache Controller
- Direct map write back or write through secondary cache
- Burst Synchronous (Pipelined or non-pipelined), asynchronous
SRAM and Cache Module support
- Eight-pin CWE# and GWE# control options
- Flexible cache size: 0K/128K/256K/512K/1M/2MB
- 32 byte line size to match the primary cache
- Integrated 10-bit tag comparator
- Interleaved SRAM access
- 3-1-1-1 read/write timing for Burst Synchronous SRAM access
at 66Mhz
- 3-2-2-2 (read) and 4-2-2-2 (write) timing for interleaved
asynchronous SRAM access at 66Mhz
- Data streaming for simultaneous primary and secondary cache
line fill
- System and video BIOS cacheable and write-protect
- Programmable cacheable region and cache timing
- Optional combined tag and alter bit SRAM for write-back scheme
o Fast DRAM Controller
- Concurrent DRAM Writeback
- Four levels of CPU/cache to DRAM write buffer
- Standard Page Mode/EDO/Burst EDO-DRAM support in a flexible/
mixed combination
- EDO-DRAM auto-detect
- Mixed 256K/512K/1M/2M/4M/8M/16MxN DRAMs
- 8 banks up to 512MB DRAMs
- Flexible row and column addresses
- 64 bit or 32 bit data width
- Burst read and write operation
- Programmable DRAM timing
- BIOS shadow at 16KB increment
- System management memory remapping
- Decoupled and burst DRAM refresh with staggered RAS timing
- CAS-before-RAS refresh timing
o Intelligent PCI Bus Controller
- 32 bit PCI interface
- PCI Master snoop ahead and snoop filtering
- Concurrent PCI master/CPU/IDE operations
- Synchronous Bus to CPU clock with divide-by-two from the CPU
clock
- Multiple accelerated schemes for high bus throughput
- Automatic detection of data streaming burst cycles from CPU to
the PCI bus
- Four level of CPU to PCI posted write buffers
- Byte merging in the write buffers to reduce the number of PCI
cycles and to create further PCI bursting possibilities
- PCI to system memory data streaming up to 110Mbyte/sec
- Four level of post write buffers from PCI masters to DRAM
- Four level of prefetch buffers from DRAM for access by PCI
masters
- Zero wait state PCI master and slave burst transfer rate
- Complete steerable PCI interrupts
- IDE and ISA bus through peer PCI bus to avoid slower traffic
blocking the regular PCI bus
- PCI-2.1 compliant
o Enhanced Master Mode PCI IDE Controller
- Dual channel master mode PCI supports four Enhanced IDE devices
- Mode 4 and Mode 5 transfer rate up to 22MB/sec
- Sixteen doubleword of prefetch and write buffers
- Interlaced commands between two channels
- Separate IDE data bus and control signals from the PCI and ISA
bus to reduce loading and to enhance performance
- Bus master programming interface for ATA controllers SFF-8038
rev.1.0 compliant
- Full scatter and gather capability
- Support ATAPI compliant devices
- Support PCI native and ATA compatibility modes
- Complete software driver support
o Plug and Play Controller
- Dual interrupt and DMA signal steering with plug and play control
- Two programmable chip selects
- Microsoft Windows 95TM and plug and play BIOS compliant
o Sophisticated Power Management Unit
- Normal, doze, sleep, suspend and conserve modes
- System event monitoring with two event classes
- One idle timer, one peripheral timer and one general purpose
timer
- More than ten general purpose Input/Output ports
- Six external event input ports with programmable SMI condition
- Complete leakage control when external component is in power off
state
- Primary and secondary interrupt differentiation for individual
channels
- Clock stretching, clock throttling and clock stop control
- Multiple internal and external SMI sources for flexible power
management models
- APM 1.1 compliant
o Synchronous ISA Bus Controller
- Synchronous ISA bus clock
- Programmable wait state, command delay and IO recovery time
- Bus conversion and data alignment
- Hardware and software de-turbo control
- Fast reset and Gate A20 operation
- Integrated 82C206 peripheral controller
- Edge trigger or level sensitive interrupt
- Flash EPROM and combined BIOS support
o Built-in nand-tree pin scan test capability
o 0.6um mixed voltage, high speed and low power CMOS process
o 208 pin PQFP for VT82C575M
o 208 pin PQFP for VT82C576M
o 100 pin PQFP for VT82C577M
o 100 pin PQFP for VT82C416
**VT82C580VP Apollo VP, Pentium/M1/K5 PCI/ISA System <02/15/96...
**VT82C580VPX Apollo VPX, VPX/97, Pentium with 66/75MHz Bus <01/09/97...
**VT82C590 Apollo VP2, VP2/97, Single-Chip Pentium 66MHz <01/10/97...
**VT82C597/AT Apollo VP3, Single-Chip for Pentium with AGP <10/03/97...
**VT82C598MVP Apollo MVP3,Single-Chip 66/75/83/100MHz & AGP <09/22/97...
**VT8501 Apollo MVP4,Single-Chip 66-100MHz & AGP <11/04/98...
**VT82C680 Apollo P6, Pentium-Pro Chip Set <08/30/96...
**Support chips:
**VT82C505 Pentium/486 VL to PCI Bridge <05/30/94...
**VT82C586/A/B PCI Integrated Peripheral Controller <10/13/96...
**VT82C596/A Mobile PCI Integrated Peripheral Controller <11/05/97...
**VT82C686A/B PCI Super-I/O Integrated Peripheral Ctrl. <02/10/98...
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