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Early chip sets have a title and a part no. to refer to the chip set
as a whole. As time went on the chip set became one chip, so later
chip sets are usually referred to by the part no. on the actual chip.
These are usually called "Single Chip" by the manufacture, although
they nearly always follow the 2-chip North/South-bridge paradigm. So
these are referred to by for example, "M1521/M1523" or "M1521/M23" for
short. If there is a part number for the chip set as a whole that has
precedence. Try the search function for a chip part no. and hopefully
it will turn up the chip set it was part of.
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**A note on VESA support of 486 chipsets....
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**82395SX Smart Cache 12/17/90
***Notes:...
**82396SX Smart Cache 12/17/90...
**82485 Turbo Cache (and 485Turbocache) c90...
**82489DX Advanced Programmable Interrupt Controller 10/12/92...
**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...
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**Later chipsets (basic spec):
**440 series:...
**450NX (?) 06/29/98:...
**????? (Profusion) c:99...
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*HMC (Hulon Microelectronics)...
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**85C496/497 486-VIP 486 Green PC VESA/ISA/PCI Chipset <95
***Info:...
***Configurations:...
***Features:
o Host Bus
- Supports Intel 486, P24D, P24T, DX4, SL
- Enhanced 486, AMD 486, Enhanced Am486, and Cyrix M7/Cx 5x86
in 25/33/40/50 Mhz, 5V CPU.
o VESA Bus Slave
- Supports VESA Bus Specification Rev. 2.0p with Local Device
Target only.
o PCI Local Bus
- Supports PCI Bus Specification Rev. 2.0 with up to 4 PCI Masters
- Implements 3 Level Post Write Buffer for CPU write PCI Target
Memory Cycle.
- Supports Back to Back Single Memory Write to PCI Burst Write.
- Supports PCI Interrupt Steering with Four PIRQ Inputs.
- Supports PCI Master Burst Accesses On-Board Memory Up to 64
Double Word Long.
- Supports Concurrency PCI Bus.
- Snoop Filter and Advanced Snooping for Reducing CPU Snoops
During Sequential PCI Master Accesses On-Board Memory Cycles.
- Supports PCI Bus PCI to PCI Bridge.
o Supports L1 Cache Write Back CPU (P24T/P24D/M7/Enhanced Am486)
systems
o Supports Cx 5x86 Linear Burst Order Mode.
o L2 Cache Controller
- Write-Back or Write-Through Schemes
- Bank Interleave/Non-Interleave Cache Access
- Cache Size: 64K/128K/256K/512K/1MB
- 8 bit or 7 bit Tag (Combined Tag and Dirty SRAM) with
Direct-Mapped cache organization.
- Optional Separate Dirty SRAM.
o DRAM Controller
- Supports 8 Banks Non-Interleaved Access for Single and Double
Sided SIMMs up to 255 MBytes.
- Supports DRAM CAS Before RAS Refresh.
- Supports "Table-Free" DRAM configuration.
- Programmable driving current for the DRAM signals.
- Supports Symmetrical and Asymmetrical DRAMs.
- Supports 256K/512K/1M/2M/4M/8M/16M/32M xN Fast Page Mode and
EDO DRAM.
o Built-In Local Bus IDE Interface
- Supports Data Conversion for the Double Word Accessing
- Supports Symmetry Configuration for Channel 1 and Channel
0, PIO Mode IDE Hard Disks.
- Supports Mode 3 and above Timing.
- Supports Individual Drive Timing Setting for Optimal Performance
- Supports Posted Write Buffers and Pre-fetch Buffer.
- Supports Primary IDE or Secondary IDE Addressing (1Fx/17x)
o Fast-Slow Link Interface
- Linkage to ISA Bridge by FS-Link Interface.
- Fast Access to BIOS, ISA Memory Holes, and Interrupt Acknowledge
Cycle by FS-Link.
- Two Programmable Non-Cacheable Regions
- Two Programmable PCI Memory Holes and One Programmable ISA
Memory Holes.
o 208-Pin PQFP
o 0.6um Low Power CMOS Technology
**85C501/502/503 Pentium/P54C PCI/ISA Chipset <01/09/95...
**5101/5102/5103 Pentium/P54C PCI/ISA Chipset <04/02/95...
**5120 Pentium PCI/ISA Chipset (Mobile) <01/28/97...
**5501/5502/5503 Pentium/P54C PCI/ISA Chipset <04/02/95...
**5511/5512/5513 Pentium PCI/ISA <06/14/95...
**5571 (Trinity) Pentium PCI/ISA Chipset (75MHz) <12/09/96...
**5581/5582 (Jessie) Pentium PCI/ISA Chipset (75MHz) <04/15/97...
**5591/5592/5595 (David) Pentium PCI A.G.P. Chipset <01/09/98...
**5596/5513 (Genesis) Pentium PCI Chipset <03/26/96...
**5597/5598 (Jedi) Pentium PCI/ISA Chipset <04/15/97...
**530/5595 (Sinbad) Host, PCI, 3D Graphics & Mem. Ctrl.<11/10/98...
**540 (Spartan) Super7 2D/3D Ultra-AGP Single C.S.<11/30/99...
**55x SoC (System-on-chip) <03/14/02...
**
**Support chips:
**85C206 Integrated Peripheral Controller [no datasheet] ?...
**5595 Pentium PCI System I/O <12/24/97...
**950 LPC I/O <07/16/99...
**Other:...
**PII/III/Pro...
**Athlon etc...
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*TI (Texas Instruments)...
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