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**82395SX Smart Cache 12/17/90
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**82485 Turbo Cache (and 485Turbocache) c90...
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**HT44 Secondary Cache c:Jun92
***Info:
The HT44 is a look-aside write-through, 80486SX, 486DX or 486DX2
secondary cache controller. It is packaged in an inexpensive 84-pin
plastic-leaded chip carrier (PLCC).
Architecture
With its look-aside architecture, the HT44 fits beside the CPU-to-
Memory bus and not in the data path. Therefore, once the HT44 has
been designed into a 486 system, it can be populated for secondary
cache systems or left vacant for non-secondary cache systems. The HT44
is direct-mapped to the available address space.
Performance
The HT44 has a number of performance enhancing features. These
include zero-waitstate burst line fills to the 486 on secondary cache
hits, and simultaneous 486 and secondary cache updates on read misses.
Memory Configurations
The HT44 supports cache sizes from 32KBytes to 1MB. Both synchronous
and asynchronous SRAMs are supported. 25ns SRAMs are sufficient for
zero-wait-state operation at 33MHz.
Chip Set Support
The HT44 can, be implemented with minimal glue logic in a 486 system
with the HTK340 (code name Shasta) chip set. The registers in the
HTK340 allow for programming of non-cacheable and write-protected
areas of memory. The HTK340 will support the HT44 with synchronous
SRAMs only. Future Headland chip sets will support both synchronous
and asynchronous SRAM designs.
The HT44 can also be used with some third-party chip sets, however,
additional glue logic may be required.
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**VT82C597/AT Apollo VP3, Single-Chip for Pentium with AGP <10/03/97
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***Configurations:...
***Features:
o PCI/ISA Green PC Ready
- Supports separately powered 3.3V (5V tolerant) interfaces to
system memory, AGP, and PCI bus
- Supports 3.3V and sub-3.3V interface to CPU
- PC-97 compatible using VT82C586B South Bridge with ACPI Power
Management
o High Integration
- Single chip implementation for 64-bit Socket-7-CPU, 64-bit
system memory, 32-bit PCI and 32-bit AGP interfaces
- Apollo VP3 Chipset: VT82C597 or VT82C597AT system controller
and VT82C586B PCI to ISA bridge
- Chipset includes UltraDMA-33 EIDE, USB, and Keyboard / PS2-Mouse
Interfaces plus RTC / CMOS on chip
o Flexible CPU Interface
- Supports 64-bit Pentium, AMD 5k86, AMD 6k86 and Cyrix 6x86 CPUs
- CPU external bus speed up to 66 MHz (internal 233MHz and above)
- Supports CPU internal write-back cache
- System management interrupt, memory remap and STPCLK mechanism
- Cyrix 6x86 linear burst support
- CPU NA# / Address pipeline capability
- 4 cache lines of CPU/cache-to-DRAM post-write buffers
- 4 quadwords of CPU/cache-to-DRAM read-prefetch buffers
o Advanced Cache Controller
- Direct map write back or write through secondary cache
- Pipelined burst synchronous SRAM (PBSRAM) cache support (with
global write enable feature)
- Flexible cache size: 0K / 256K / 512K / 1M / 2MB
- 32 byte line size to match the primary cache
- Integrated 10-bit tag comparator
- 3-1-1-1 read/write timing for PBSRAM access at 66 MHz
- 3-1-1-1-1-1-1-1 back to back read timing for PBSRAM access at
66 MHz
- Sustained 3 cycle write access for PBSRAM access or CPU to DRAM
and PCI bus post write buffers at 66 MHz
- Data streaming for simultaneous primary and secondary cache line
fill
- System and video BIOS cacheable and write-protect
- Programmable cacheable region and cache timing
o AGP Controller
- AGP v1.0 compliant
- Supports SideBand Addressing (SBA) mode (non-multiplexed
address/data)
- Supports 133MHz 2X mode for AD and SBA signalling
- Pipelined split-transaction long-burst transfers up to 533 MB/
sec
- Eight level read request queue
- Four level posted-write request queue
- Thirty-two level (quadwords) read data FIFO (128 bytes)
- Sixteen level (quadwords) write data FIFO (64 bytes)
- Intelligent request reordering for maximum AGP bus utilization
- Supports Flush/Fence commands
o GART
- One level TLB structure
- Sixteen entry fully associative page table
- LRU replacement scheme
- Independent GART lookup control for host / AGP / PCI master
accesses
o Intelligent PCI Bus Controller
- PCI buses are synchronous to host CPU bus
- 33 MHz operation on the primary PCI bus
- 66 MHz PCI operation on the AGP bus
- PCI-to-PCI bridge configuration on the 66MHz PCI bus
- Separate data buffers for the two PCI buses
- Peer concurrency
- Concurrent multiple PCI master transactions; i.e., allow PCI
masters from both PCI buses active at the same time
- Allows PCI master access while ISA master/DMA is active
- PCI master snoop ahead and snoop filtering
- Five levels (double-words) 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
- Zero wait state PCI master and slave burst transfer rate
- PCI to system memory data streaming up to 132Mbyte/sec
- Enhanced PCI command optimization (MRL, MRM, MWI, etc.)
- Forty-eight levels (double-words) of post write buffers from PCI
masters to DRAM
- Sixteen levels (double-words) of prefetch buffers from DRAM for
access by PCI masters
- Supports L1/L2 write-back forward to PCI master read to minimize
PCI read latency
- Supports L1/L2 write-back merged with PCI master post-write to
minimize DRAM utilization
- Transaction timer for fair arbitration between PCI masters
(granularity of two PCI clocks)
- Symmetric arbitration between Host/PCI bus for optimized system
performance
- Complete steerable PCI interrupts
- PCI-2.1 compliant, 32 bit 3.3V PCI interface with 5V tolerant
inputs
o Advanced High-Performance DRAM Controller
- 66MHz DRAM interface
- Concurrent CPU and AGP access
- FP, EDO, SDRAM, and SDRAM-II
- 66MHz DDR (Double Data Rate) supported for SDRAM-II
(supports central and edge DQ, bidirectional DS, and optional
SDR write)
- Different DRAM types may be used in mixed combinations
- Different DRAM timing for each bank
- Mixed 1M / 2M / 4M / 8M / 16MxN DRAMs
- 6 banks up to 1GB DRAMs
- Flexible row and column addresses
- 64-bit data width only
- 3.3V DRAM interface with 5V-tolerant inputs
- Optional bank-by-bank ECC (single-bit error correction and
multi-bit error detection) or EC (error checking only) for DRAM
integrity
- Two-bank interleaving for 16Mbit SDRAM support
- Two-bank and four bank interleaving for 64Mbit SDRAM support
(14 MA lines)
- Supports maximum 8-bank interleave (i.e., 8 pages open
simultaneously); banks are allocated based on LRU
- Seamless DRAM command scheduling for maximum DRAM bus utilization
(e.g., precharge other banks while accessing the current bank)
- Four cache lines (16 quadwords) of CPU/cache to DRAM write
buffers
- Concurrent DRAM writeback
- Read around write capability for non-stalled CPU read
- Burst read and write operation
- 5-2-2-2 on page, 8-2-2-2 start page and 11-2-2-2 off page timing
for EDO DRAMs at 66 MHz
- 6-1-1-1 on page, 8-1-1-1 start page and 10-1-1-1 off page for
SDRAMs at 66 MHz
- 5-2-2-2-3-2-2-2 back-to-back accesses for EDO DRAM at 66 MHz
- 6-1-1-1-3-1-1-1 back-to-back accesses for SDRAM at 66 MHz
- BIOS shadow at 16KB increment
- Decoupled and burst DRAM refresh with staggered RAS timing
- Programmable refresh rate, CAS-before-RAS refresh and refresh on
populated banks only
o Built-in NAND-tree pin scan test capability
o 3.3V, 0.5um, high speed / low power CMOS process
o 472 pin BGA Package
o Alternate pinouts available to optimally accommodate different PCB
form factors
- VT82C597 for ATX and NLX
- VT82C597AT for Baby AT and ATX
**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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