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**82485 Turbo Cache (and 485Turbocache) c90
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**82489DX Advanced Programmable Interrupt Controller 10/12/92...
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**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...
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**VT82C570M Apollo Master, Green Pentium/P54C <06/22/95
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**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
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***Features:
o High Integration
- VT82C685 system controller
- VT82C687 data buffer
- VT82C586 PCI to ISA bridge
- Six TTLs for a complete main board implementation
o Flexible CPU Interface
- 64 bit Pentium-Pro CPU interface
- CPU external bus speed up to 66 MHz
- Supports Pentium-Pro CPU multi-phase bus protocol for split
transactions
- Supports four level deep in-order-queue and deferred transaction
- Supports APIC multiprocessor protocol
- GTL+TM bus driver and receiver compatible with Intel
specification
o Fast DRAM Controller
- Sixteen level (quadwords) of CPU to DRAM write buffers
- Sixteen level (quadwords) of DRAM to CPU read buffers
- Fast Page Mode/EDO/Burst EDO/Synchronous-DRAM support in a mixed
combination
- Mixed 1M/2M/4M/8M/16MxN DRAMs
- Supports 2-way bank-interleaving of 16 MB SDRAM
- Supports 2-way and 4-way bank-interleaving of 64 MB SDRAM
- 6 banks up to 1 GB DRAMs
- Flexible row and column addresses
- Optional bank-by-bank ECC and parity generation, detection, and
correction capability
- ECC with 1 bit error correction and multi-bit error detection
capability
- 3.3v and 5v DRAM without external buffers
- Burst read and write operation
- 5-1-1-1-1-1-1-1 back-to-back Burst EDO and Synchronous DRAM
transfer at 66 MHz
- 532 MB/s peak transfer rate for Burst EDO and Synchronous DRAMs
at 66 MHz
- 266 MB/s peak transfer rate for EDO DRAMs at 66 MHz
- BIOS shadow at 16 kB increment
- System management memory remapping
- Decoupled and burst DRAM refresh with staggered RAS timing
- Programmable refresh rate, CAS-before-RAS refresh and refresh
on populated banks only
o Intelligent PCI Bus Controller
- 32 bit 3.3/5v PCI interface
- Synchronous divide-by-two PCI bus 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
- Automatic detection of data streaming burst cycles from CPU to
the PCI bus
- Sixteen 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 132 MByte/sec
- Sixteen 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
- Enhanced PCI command optimization (MRL, MRM, MWI, etc.)
- Complete steerable PCI interrupts
- Supports CPU write-back forward to PCI master read to minimize
PCI read latency
- Supports CPU write-back merged with PCI master post-write to
minimize DRAM utilization
- Provides transaction timer to fairly arbitrate between PCI
masters
- Supports five PCI masters in addition to PCI-ISA/IDE/USB bridge
- PCI-2.1 compliant
o Enhanced Master Mode PCI IDE Controller with Extension to
UltraDMA-33
- Dual channel master mode PCI supporting four Enhanced IDE
devices
- Transfer rate up to 22 MB/sec to cover PIO mode 4 and multi-word
DMA mode 2 drives and beyond
- Extension to UltraDMA-33 interface for up to 33 MB/sec transfer
rate
- Sixteen levels (doublewords) of prefetch and write buffers
- Interlaced commands between two channels
- Bus master programming interface for SFF-8038 rev.1.0 and
Windows-95 compliant
- Full scatter and gather capability
- Support ATAPI compliant devices
- Support PCI native and ATA compatibility modes
- Complete software driver support
o Universal Serial Bus Controller
- USB v.1.0 and Intel Universal HCI v.1.1 compatible
- Eighteen level (doubleword) of data FIFOs with full scatter
and gather capabilities
- Root hub and two function ports with integrated physical
layer transceivers
- Legacy keyboard and PS2 mouse support
o Plug and Play Controller
- Dual interrupt and DMA signal steering with plug and play
control
- Microsoft Windows 95TM and plug and play BIOS compliant
o Sophisticated Power Management and OnNow/ACPI Unit
- Normal, doze, sleep, suspend and conserve modes
- System event monitoring with two event classes
- Two general purpose timers
- Sixteen general purpose output ports
- Seven external event input ports with programmable SMI condition
- Primary and secondary interrupt differentiation for individual
channels
- Clock throttling control
- Multiple internal and external SMI sources for flexible power
management models
- APM 1.2 compliant models
- Extension to OnNow and ACPI (Advanced Configuration and Power
Interface) support
o PCI to ISA Bridge
- Integrated 82C206 peripheral controller
- Integrated keyboard controller with PS2 mouse supports
- Integrated DS12885 style real time clock with extended 128 Byte
CMOS RAM
- Integrated USB controller with root hub and two function ports
- Integrated master mode enhanced IDE controller with enhanced
PCI bus commands
- PCI-2.1 compliant with delay transaction
- Four double-word line buffer between PCI and ISA bus
- Supports type F DMA transfers
- Fast reset and Gate A20 operation
- Edge trigger or level sensitive interrupt
- Flash EPROM, 2 MB EPROM and combined BIOS support
o Built-in Nand-tree pin scan test capability
o 0.5um mixed voltage, high speed and low power CMOS process
o 208 pin PQFP for VT82C685
o 208 pin PQFP for VT82C586
o 208 pin PQFP for VT82C687

**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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