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**Intro:
The information  contained within this  file should not  be considered
100%  correct.   Where  possible   information  has  been  taken  from
datasheets, however  even this info  may be incorrect.  The datasheets
state what  the chip should  do, not what  they actually do.  This is,
compounded further by different revisions of chips.

This  document will  never be  complete, and  I have  no intention  of
finding every  datasheet for  every chip  set. Some  of the  chip sets
listed are  from later systems  in the PIII/P4/Athlon era.   There are
many websites  with information on  these chip sets and  these entries
will likely not be expanded upon.  The focus of this document is early
PC/XT to  Pentium chip sets.  There are  few sites that  clearly illu-
strate this information, and how they relate to each other.

I  aim  to  prioritize   cataloging  significant,  rare  or  otherwise
interesting chip sets.

BTW the reason I wrote all of this down, is so that I could FORGET it.
Basically I needed to free  up some RAM.  I've  a head full  of arcane
snippets of  information on this subject.   I don't want to  end up  a
crazy old man  ranting random disjointed information  ("The C&T CS8220
came before the CS8221 you KNOW!") to disinterested passersby,  unable
to see how senile I've become. A side benefit, this might be useful to
someone else:-)

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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...
**82497/492   Cache Controller / Cache RAM (for P54 Pentium)    <Nov94
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***Info:...
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***Features:...
**82498/493   Cache Controller / Cache RAM (for P54 Pentium)    <Nov94...
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**Later chipsets (basic spec):
**440 series:...
**450NX  (?)            06/29/98:...
**?????  (Profusion)    c:99...
**800 series...
*Headland/G2...
*HMC (Hulon Microelectronics)...
*Logicstar...
*Motorola...
*OPTi...
*PC CHIPS/Amptron/Atrend/ECS/Elpina/etc...
*SIS...
*Symphony...
*TI (Texas Instruments)...
*UMC...
**UM82C480     386/486 PC Chip Set                                 c91
***Info:
The UMC82C480  is a highly  integrated, IBM PC/AT compatible  chip set
for  high performance  80386/80486  based  personal computer  systems.
Built with  exquisite [yes  it really says  that] cache  controller in
advanced   1.0um   CMOS   technology,  UM82C481   (Integrated   Memory
Controller, IMC),  UM82C482 (Integrated System Controller,  ISC), with
UM82C206 (Integrated  Peripheral Controller, IPC), and  limited counts
of  commercial parts  constitute  a low  cost,  highly reliable,  full
advanced feature personal computer system.

The UM82C482,  Integrated System  Controller (ISC),  is part  of UMC's
high  performance 80386/80486  PC/AT  chip set.   It  contains AT  bus
control  logic, data  bus  conversion logic,  CPU  reset logic,  clock
generation  for  CPU,  keyboard   and  timer,  DMA/refresh  logic  and
peripheral  interface logic.   Incorporated with  UM82C481, integrated
Memory   Controller  (IMC),   and   UM82C206,  Integrated   Peripheral
Controller (IPC),  ISC provides  system control functions  for overall
PC/AT computer system.

The UM82C481,  Integrated Memory  Controller (IMC),  is part  of UMC's
high performance 80386/80486 PC/AT chip set. It contains sophisticated
direct-mapped  cache controller  with write  back operation,  and fast
page  mode DRAM  controller.  Incorporated  with UM82C482,  Integrated
System   Controller  (ISC),   and   UM82C206,  Integrated   Peripheral
Controller (IPC), IMC provides main memory management function for the
PC/AT computer system.



***Configurations:...
***Features:...
**UM82C493/491 ??????????????? [no datasheet]                        ?...
**UM8498/8496  486 VL Chipset  "Super Energy Star Green"[no dsheet]c94...
**UM8881/8886  HB4 PCI Chipset "Super Energy Star Green"[no dsheet]c94...
**UM8890       Pentium chipset [no datasheet]                        ?...
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**Support Chips:
**UM82152      Cache Controller (AUStek A38152 clone)              <91...
**UM82C852     Multi I/O For XT                                    <91...
**UM82C206     Integrated Peripheral Controller                    <91...
**UM82c45x     Serial/Parallel chips                                 ?...
**Other chips:...
*Unresearched:...
*VIA...
*VLSI...
*Western Digital...
*Winbond...
*ZyMOS...
*General Sources:...