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Chips:
Memory Access Controller (MAC)
Data Interface Buffer (DIB)
CPUs: 8x P-III Xeon Oct
DRAM Types: SDRAM PC100 2-way Interleave dual channel
Max Mem: 32GB
ECC/Parity: ECC
AGP speed: N/A
Bus Speed: 100
PCI Clock/Bus: 1/3 PCI-66/64

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Info sourced from the very useful plasma-online.de:
http://www.plasma-online.de/index.html?content=http%3A//www.plasma-online.de/english/identify/picture/pcchips.html

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**VT82C586/A/B PCI Integrated Peripheral Controller <10/13/96
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***Versions:...
***Features:
o PC97 Compliant PCI to ISA Bridge
- Integrated ISA Bus Controller with integrated DMA, timer, and
interrupt controller
- Integrated keyboard controller with PS2 mouse support
- 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, 2MB EPROM and combined BIOS support
- Programmable ISA bus clock
o Inter-operable with Intel and other Host-to-PCI Bridges
- Combine with VT82C595 for a complete Pentium / PCI / ISA system
(Apollo VP2)
- Combine with VT82C685/687 for a complete Pentium-Pro /PCI / ISA
system (Apollo P6)
- Inter-operable with other Intel or non-Intel Host-to-PCI bridges
for a complete PC97 compliant PCI/ISA system
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 22MB/sec to cover PIO mode 4 and multi-word
DMA mode 2 drives and beyond
- Extension to UltraDMA-33 / ATA-33 interface for up to 33MB/sec
transfer rate
- Sixteen levels (doublewords) of prefetch and write buffers
- Interlaced commands between two channels
- Bus master programming interface for SFF-8038i 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 (doublewords) data FIFO with full scatter and
gather capability
- Root hub and two function ports with integrated physical layer
transceivers
- Legacy keyboard and PS/2 mouse support
o Sophisticated Power Management
- 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 and output ports
- Seven 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 1.2 compliant
- Pin-compatible upgrade to VT82C586B for OnNow / ACPI (Advanced
Configuration and Power Interface) power-management support,
256-byte extended CMOS, Distributed DMA, and I2C capabilities
o Plug and Play Controller
- PCI interrupts steerable to any interrupt channel
- Dual interrupt and DMA channel controllers for on-board plug and
play devices
- Microsoft Windows 95 and plug and play BIOS compliant
o Built-in Nand-tree pin scan test capability
o 0.5um mixed voltage, high speed and low power CMOS process
o Single chip 208 pin PQFP

**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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