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**What's not included:
All information included in this file can be referenced to some
document or picture. Or at least should be:-) As a result of this,
proprietary chip sets, and odd combinations of different chip sets are
not usually included. There tends to be scant information on
proprietary chip sets, i.e. no datasheet. Similarly chip sets built
using some components from one manufacture and some from another are
kind of difficult to deal with.
An example I know of is a 25 MHz 386 DX motherboard that uses the
Intel N82230/N82231 (formerly, ZyMOS) 286 chip set, with an AUStek
cache Controller. I know it existed but there is no documentation.
So the best I can say you'll have to take my word that it existed. I
can't include it because there is no real information there.
Also not included is anything that isn't a PC-compatible chip
set. I.e. no Macintosh info. Any Information on PC-incompatibles/
pseudo-compatibles, and other weirdi-type stuff I have a particular
interest in. See the section: 'Info needed on'. Some information on
video chip sets is included, occasionally but the focus is on
motherboard implementation.
**Who made the first chip set?...
**Spelling errors/mistyped words...
**Info needed on:...
**A note on VESA support of 486 chipsets....
**Datasheets:...
*_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...
**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...
**
**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...
*SIS...
**85C501/502/503 Pentium/P54C PCI/ISA Chipset <01/09/95
***Notes:...
***Info:...
***Configurations:
85C501 PCI/ISA Cache Memory Controller (PCMC)
85C502 PCI Local Data Buffer (PLDB)
85C503 PCI System I/O (PSIO)
Revisions:
A3: 85C501MT + 85C503MS
A4: 85C501MU + 85C503MT
***Features:...
**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
***Info:
The single chipset, SiS540, provides a high performance/low cost
Desktop solution for the Super Socket 7 series CPUs based system by
integrating a high performance North Bridge, advanced hardware 2D/3D
GUI engine and Super-South bridge. In addition, SiS540 provides
system-on-chip solution that complies with Easy PC Initiative which
supports Instantly Available/OnNow PC technology, USB, Legacy Removal
and Slotless Design and FlexATX form factor.
By integrating the Ultra-AGP technology and advanced 128-bit graphic
display interface, SiS540 delivers high performance and up to 2 GB/s
memory bandwidth. Furthermore, SiS540 provides powerful slice layer
decoding DVD accelerator to improve the DVD playback performance. In
addition to providing the standard interface for CRT monitors, SiS540
also provides the Digital Flat Panel Port (DFP) for a standard
interface between a personal computer and a digital flat panel
monitor. To extend functionality and flexibility, SiS also provides
the "Video Bridge" (SiS301) to support the NTSC/PAL Video Output,
Digital LCD Monitor and Secondary CRT Monitor, which reduces the
external Panel Link transmitter and TV-Out encoder for cost effected
solution. SiS540 also adopts Share System Memory Architecture which
can flexibly utilize the frame buffer size up to 64MB.
The "Super-South Bridge" in SiS540 integrates all peripheral con-
trollers/accelerators/interfaces. SiS540 provides a total commun-
ication solution including 10/100Mb Fast Ethernet for Office
requirement. SiS540 offers AC’97 compliant interface that comprises
digital audio engine with 3D-hardware accelerator, on-chip sample rate
converter, and professional wavetable along with separate modem DMA
controller. SiS540 also provides interface to Low Pin Count (LPC)
operating at 33 MHz clock which is the same as PCI clock on the host,
and dual USB host controller with four USB ports that deliver better
connectivity and 2 x 12Mb bandwidth.
The built-in fast PCI IDE controller supports the ATA PIO/DMA, and the
Ultra DMA33/66 function that supports the data transfer rate up to 66
MB/s. It provides a separate data path for two IDE channels that can
eminently improve the performance under the multi-tasking environment.
***Configurations...
***Features:...
**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...
**Other:...
**PII/III/Pro...
**Athlon etc...
*Symphony...
*TI (Texas Instruments)...
*UMC...
*Unresearched:...
*VIA...
*VLSI...
*Western Digital...
*Winbond...
*ZyMOS...
*General Sources:...
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