[Home] [This version is outdated, a new version is here]
*Title...
*Search:...
*Read Me/FAQ/General Info...
*_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...
**82498/493   Cache Controller / Cache RAM (for P54 Pentium)    <Nov94
***Notes:...
***Info:...
***Configurations:...
***Features:...
**
**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...
**Notes:
You eventually get  to know when a  board is made by PC  Chips just by
looking at it.
 
Here is a test:
1.  No manufacture name, or one of the above.
2.  If the board has a lots of components that sound like a well known 
    part but aren't the well known part. i.e. 'HX Pro' instead of 
    '430HX'
3a. A really good feature set where you think, that's exactly what I'm 
    looking for.
 b. The features don't really work as intended. 
4.  The price is fantastic.
5.  Its disappointing on closer examination.

PC Chips is  renowned for making crap products. Some  are actually not
too bad, they're no worse than  your average brand. However some are a
nightmare either by design or  just poorly made. Fake components glued
on is not  uncommon. Fake labels over other components.  PCB's so thin
they require low insertion force ISA connectors, every trick to save a
few $.

**Early Chipsets:...
**Later Chipsets:...
*SIS...
*Symphony...
*TI (Texas Instruments)...
*UMC...
*Unresearched:...
*VIA...
*VLSI...
*Western Digital...
**WD7900/LP/LV  System Chip Set for 80286 or 80386SX (Cache) <11/25/91
***Notes:...
***Info:...
***Configurations:...
***Features:...
**WD8110        System controller for 80386DX/486            <11/30/93...
**
**Support Chips:
**WD76C20x   Floppy, RTC, IDE and Support Logic Device       <11/25/91
***Info:...
***Versions:...
***Features:
o   84-pin PLCC and PQFP packages
o   5V supply requirement (WD76C20) 
    3.3V supply requirement (WD76C20LV)
o   3.0V battery backup supply for the RTC and 114 byte SRAM (WD76C20) 
    2.4V battery backup supply for the RTC and 114 byte SRAM 
    (WD76C20LV)
o   Implemented in a low-power, high-performance, 1.25 micron CMOS 
    technology process
o   Floppy Disk Controller (FDC) software transparent power-down mode 
    with low standby ICC current. FOC features:
    - 256 tracks support
    - 100% software compatible with NEC 765A
    - Integrated high-performance DPLL data separator:
       - 125, 250, 300, 500 Kb/sec and 1 Mb/sec data rates
       - Option to select 150 Kb/sec FM and 300 Kb/sec MFM data 
         rates only
    - Automatic Write Precompensation:
       - Defeat option
       - Inner track value of 125 or 187 ns pin selectable
    - On chip clock generation:
       - 2 TTL clock inputs, or 
       - Single 16 or 32 MHz crystal circuit and one TTL clock input
    - Power Qualified Reset
       - Enable PQR in W076C20
       - Disable PQR in W076C20LV
    - Host interface read/write accesses compatible with 80286 
      microprocessors at speeds up to 12 MHz with 0 wait states
    - Direct floppy disk drive interface - no buffers needed
       - 48 mA sink output drivers
       - Schmitt Trigger input line receivers
    - FDC direct PC XT/AT interface compatibility
       - Floppy Control and Operations Registers on chip
       - In PC/AT mode, provides required signal qualification to DMA 
         channel
       - IBM BIOS compatible
       - Dual-speed spindle drive support
    - PS/2 type drive support
o   Real Time Clock (RTC) features:
    - Software compatible with Motorola MC146818A.
    - Internal time base and oscillator circuitry 
    - Counts seconds, minutes, and hours
    - Counts days of the week, date, month, and year
    - Time base input for 32.768 KHz square wave
    - Time base oscillator for parallel resonant crystals
    - Binary or BCD representation of time, calendar, and alarm
    - 12- or 24-hour clock with AM and PM in 12-hour mode
    - Daylight savings time option
    - Automatic leap year compensation
    - Interfaced with software as 128 RAM locations
    - 114 bytes at general purpose RAM
    - Status bit indicates data integrity
    - Bus compatible interrupt signals (IRQ)
    - Three interrupts are separately software maskable and testable:
       - Time-at-day alarm - once-per-second to once-per-day
       - Periodic interrupt rates tram 122 us to 500 ms
       - End-at-clock update cycle

**WD76C30x   Perip. Ctrl, Interrupt Multiplex, and Clock Gen <11/18/91...
**WD7615     Desktop Buffer Manager                          <04/15/92...
**WD7625     Desktop Buffer Manager                          <10/01/92...
**WD8120LV   Super I/O [no datasheet]                                ?
**Other Chips:...
*Winbond...
*ZyMOS...
*General Sources:...