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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...
**82489DX       Advanced Programmable Interrupt Controller    10/12/92
***Notes:...
***Info:...
***Versions:...
***Features:...
**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...
*PC CHIPS/Amptron/Atrend/ECS/Elpina/etc...
*SIS...
*Symphony...
*TI (Texas Instruments)...
*UMC...
*Unresearched:...
*VIA...
**VT82C570M    Apollo Master, Green Pentium/P54C             <06/22/95
***Info:...
***Configurations:...
***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...
**Later P-Pro/II/III/Celeron...
**Later AMD...
**Other...
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*Western Digital...
*Winbond...
*ZyMOS...
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