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**M1561/43/35D Aladdin 7 ArtX [no datasheet, some info] 11/08/99
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***Info & Features:
M1561 Overview
128-bit Super-Socket7 North Bridge for AMD-K6-III with integrated 3D
and Video Highest-performance game playing in a single integrated chip
The M1561 integrates the following functionalities in a Unified Memory
Architecture PC:
o 3-D Graphics
o 2-D Windows Acceleration
o VGA Display Controller
o SDRAM Memory Controller
o PCI Bus Interface
M1561 supports the 66/100/1XX MHz Socket 7 Front Side Bus. It is
System Memory Management (SMM) and Advanced Configuration and Power
Interface Specification (ACPI) compliant.
M1561 uses 66/100/1XX MHz SDRAM with LVTLL input/output signals. The
chip supports up to four memory DIMMs.
Power supplies are 2.5V for the core and 3.3V for most of the I/O. A
5V reference is needed for the 5V tolerant PCI inputs. Reference
voltages for ArtX and ArtX+ are also needed.The part is packaged in a
35x35mm 492 ball Thermally Enhanced Ball Grid Array (T 2 BGA) package.
North Bridge Features
o 128-bit Data Streaming architecture for highest performance
SMA/UMA
o PC99 compliant
o 100/66MHz CPU Front Side Bus, 1XXMHz ready
o Standard PC-100/66 SDRAM (up to 1 GB) PC-1XX ready
o 33 MHz PCI 2.2 compliant I/O bus
o ACPI power management
o Compatible with single-chip ALi M1535D and M1543 South Bridges
Performance 3D Graphics by ArtX
o First integrated North Bridge with hardware-accelerated geometry
transformation & lighting (T&L)
o Setup engine
o Delivers fastest real game performance
o Revolutionary new parallel rendering architecture for state-of-
the-art pixel fill rates
o Industry-leading 8X Virtual AGPTM graphics performance and
functionality
o Hardware features:
- Accelerated floating point Geometry and texture coordinate
transformation, clipping, perspective projection
- Accelerated specular, diffuse, and ambient lighting
- 3D points, lines, triangles, polygons
- Perspective-correct trilinear-filtered MIP-mapped texture
mapping
- Alpha blending
- Exponential pixel fog
- Depth, stencil buffering
- Anti-aliasing
- Framebuffer clear and copy
2D/Multimedia Features
o 30fps DVD playback with hardware acceleration (motion
compensation)
o 128-bit BitBLT engine, 256 raster operations
o Full color RGBA, color expansion, color keying
o YUV planar 4:2:0, 4:2:2 video overlay, video scaling and filtering
Display Controller
o Up to 1600x1200 non-interlaced screen resolution
o Hardware features:
- Analog CRT monitor output
- 32-bit full-color
- Fully compliant VGA adapter
- Downloadable RAMDAC, hardware cursor
o VBE 3.0 support
Memory interface
o 128-bit PC100/PC66 SDRAM, PC-1XX Ready
o Up to 2.1 Gbytes/second bandwidth
Drivers
o Optimized driver for DirectX 7 with Direct3D, OpenGL ICD, HWMC
o and GDI acceleration on Windows 98 and Windows 2000
o Dynamic memory allocation for texture
o Drivers available for Windows 98, Windows 2000 and Windows NT 4.0
Packaging
o 492-BGA, 35x35mm
***Configurations:...
**M6117 386SX Single Chip PC <97...
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**Support Chips:
**M1535/D South Bridge ?...
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**May not exist:...
**Later Chipsets:...
**Other:...
*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...
**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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**5597/5598 (Jedi) Pentium PCI/ISA Chipset <04/15/97
***Info:...
***Configurations:...
***Features:
o Support Intel Pentium CPU and other compatible CPU host bus
at 50/55/60/66/75 MHz
o Support CPU with MMX feature
o Support the Pipelined Address Mode of Pentium CPU
o Support the Full 64-bit Pentium Processor data Bus
o Meet PC97 Requirements
o Integrated Second Level (L2) Cache Controller
- Write Back Cache Modes
- 8 bits or 7 bits Tag with Direct Mapped Cache Organization
- Integrated 16K bits Dirty RAM
- Support Pipelined Burst SRAM
- Support 256 KBytes and 512 KBytes Cache Sizes
- Cache Hit Read/Write Cycle of 3-1-1-1
- Cache Back-to-Back Read/Write Cycle of 3-1-1-1-1-1-1-1
o Integrated DRAM Controller
- Support 6 RAS lines (3 Banks) of FPM/EDO/SDRAM DIMMs/SIMMs
- Support 2Mbytes to 384Mbytes of main memory
- Support Cacheable DRAM Sizes up to 128 MBytes.
- Support 256K/512K/1M/2M/4M/8M/16M/32M x N FPM/EDO/SDRAM DRAM
- Support 64 Mb DRAM Technology
- Support 3.3V or 5V DRAM.
- Supports Symmetrical and Asymmetrical DRAM.
- Support 32 bits/64 bits mixed mode configuration
- Support Concurrent Write Back
- Support CAS before RAS Refresh
- Support Relocation of System Management Memory
- Programmable CAS#, RAS#, RAMWE# and MA Driving Current.
- Fully Configurable for the Characteristic of Shadow RAM (640
KBytes to 1 MBytes)
- Support FPM DRAM 5-3-3-3(-3-3-3-3) Burst Read Cycles
- Support EDO DRAM 5-2-2-2(-2-2-2-2) Burst Read Cycles
- Support SDRAM 6-1-1-1(-2-1-1-1) Burst Read Cycles
- Support X-1-1-1/X-2-2-2/X-3-3-3 Burst Write Cycles
- Support 8 Qword Deep Buffer for Read/Write Reordering, Dword
Merging and 3/2-1-1-1 Post write Cycles
- Two Programmable Non-Cacheable Regions
- Option to Disable Local Memory in Non-Cacheable Regions
- Shadow RAM in Increments of 16 KBytes
o Integrated PMU Controller
- Meet ACPI Requirements
- Support Both ACPI and Legacy PMU
- Support Suspend to Disk
- Support SMM Mode of CPU
- Support CPU Stop Clock
- Support Power Button for ACPI function
- Support Automatic Power Control for system power off function
- Support Modem Ring-in, RTC Alarm Wake up
- Support Thermal Detection
- Support GPIOs, and GPOs for External Devices Control
- Support Programmable Chip Select
o Provides High Performance PCI Arbiter.
- Support up to 4 PCI Masters
- Support Rotating Priority Mechanism
- Hidden Arbitration Scheme Minimizes Arbitration Overhead.
- Support Concurrency between CPU to Memory and PCI to PCI.
o Integrated Host-to-PCI Bridge
- Support Asynchronous and Synchronous PCI Clock
- Translates the CPU Cycles into the PCI Bus Cycles
- Provides CPU-to-PCI Read Assembly and Write Disassembly
Mechanism
- Translates Sequential CPU-to-PCI Memory Write Cycles into PCI
Burst Cycles
- Zero Wait State Burst Cycles
- Support IDE Posted Write
- Support Pipelined Process in CPU-to-PCI Access
- Support Advance Snooping for PCI Master Bursting
- Maximum PCI Burst Transfer from 256 Bytes to 4 KBytes
o Integrated Posted Write Buffers and Read Prefetch Buffers to
Increase System Performance
- CPU-to-Memory Posted Write Buffer (CTMFF) with 8 QW Deep,
Always Sustains 0 Wait Performance on CPU-to-Memory.
- CPU-to-Memory Read Buffer with 4 QW Deep
- CPU-to-PCI Posted Write Buffer(CTPFF) with 8 DW Deep
- PCI-to-Memory Posted Write Buffer(PTHFF) with 8 QW Deep, Always
Streams 0 Wait Performance on PCI-to/from-Memory Access
- PCI-to-Memory Read Prefetch Buffer(CTPFF) with 8 QW Deep
o Integrated Video/Graphics Accelerator
- Support 32-bit PCI local bus standard revision 2.1
- Built-in an enhanced 64-bit BITBLT graphics engine
- Support tightly coupled host interface to VGA to speed up GUI
performance and the video playback frame rate
- Support direct access to video memory to speed up GUI
performance and the video playback frame rate
- Shared System Memory Area 0.5MB, 1MB, 1.5MB, 2MB, 2.5MB, 3MB,
3.5MB, 4MB
- Built-in programmable 24-bit true-color RAMDAC with reference-
voltage generator
- Built-in dual-clock generator
- Built-in monitor-sense circuit
- Built-in Phillips SAA7110/SAA7111, Brooktree Bt815/817/819A
(8 -bit SPI mode 1,2) video decoder interface
- Built-in Standard feature connector logic support
o Integrated PCI-to-ISA Bridge
- Translates PCI Bus Cycles into ISA Bus Cycles
- Translates ISA Master or DMA Cycles into PCI Bus Cycles
- Provides a Dword Post Buffer for PCI to ISA Memory cycles
- Two 32 bit Prefetch/Post Buffers Enhance the DMA and ISA Master
Performance
- Fully Compliant to PCI 2.1
o Enhanced DMA Functions
- 8-, 16- bit DMA Data Transfer
- ISA compatible, and Fast Type F DMA Cycles
- Two 8237A Compatible DMA Controllers with Seven Independent
Programmable Channels
- Provides the Readability of the two 8237 Associated Registers
- Support Distributed DMA
o Built-in Two 8259A Interrupt Controllers
- 14 Independently Programmable Channels for Level- or Edge-
triggered Interrupts
- Provides the Readability of the two 8259A Associated Registers
- Support Serial IRQ
o Three Programmable 16-bit Counters compatible with 8254
- System Timer Interrupt
- Generates Refresh Request
- Speaker Tone Output
- Provides the Readability of the 8254 Associated Registers
o Built-in Keyboard Controller
- Hardwired Logic Provides Instant Response
- Support PS/2 Mouse interface
- Support Hot Key "Wake-up" Function
- Capable of Enable/Disable Internal KBC and PS2 Mouse
o Built-in Real Time Clock(RTC) with 256B CMOS SRAM
- Built-in up to one Month Alarm for ACPI
o Fast PCI IDE Master/Slave Controller
- Bus Master Programming Interface for ATA Windows 95 Compliant
Controller
- Support PCI Bus Mastering
- Plug and Play Compatible
- Support Scatter and Gather
- Support Dual Mode Operation - Native Mode and Compatibility Mode
- Support IDE PIO Timing Mode 0, 1, 2 ,3 and 4
- Support Multiword DMA Mode 0, 1, 2
- Support Ultra DMA/33
- Two Separate IDE Bus
- Two 16 Dword FIFO for PCI Burst Transfers.
o Universal Serial Bus Host Controller
- OpenHCI Host Controller with Root Hub
- Two USB ports
- Support Legacy Devices
- Support Over Current Detection
o Support I2C serial Bus
o Support the Reroutibility of the four PCI Interrupts
o Support 2Mb Flash ROM Interface
o Support Signature Analysis for automatic test for VGA controller
o Support NAND Tree for ball connectivity testing
o 553-Balls BGA Package
o 0.35μm 3.3V Technology
**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...
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**Support chips:
**85C206 Integrated Peripheral Controller [no datasheet] ?...
**5595 Pentium PCI System I/O <12/24/97...
**950 LPC I/O <07/16/99...
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**PII/III/Pro...
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