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**Why this document is not GPL or a wiki
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fantastic idea, I have chosen not to make this freely copied and
modified. The reasons are as follows:
1. GPL text tends to be copied...EVERYWHERE. For example, if you look
up a subject on wikipedia, then try to get more information, or a
different perspective on say about.com. There you find the EXACT
SAME TEXT. This is what mirrors are for. It's an unintended
consequence, but it can lead to misinformation being spread
everywhere. A bigger problem.
2. There seems to be fewer and fewer informative websites. It used to
be that if you searched for something you would find a website
about a particular subject. Now you tend to find the encyclopedia
and often nothing else (well quickly).
In addition the majority of this text is quotes.
The wiki concept is a good idea, but they have problems. Because no
one "owns" the work they seem to go to two extremes. Either no one
maintains them, or there are edit wars. Also anyone can edit them.
**Definition of a chip set:...
**'chip set', 'chip-set' or 'chipset'?...
**What's not included:...
**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...
*Headland/G2...
*HMC (Hulon Microelectronics)...
*Logicstar...
*Motorola...
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*PC CHIPS/Amptron/Atrend/ECS/Elpina/etc...
*SIS...
**950 LPC I/O <07/16/99
***Info:
The SIS950 is a LPC Interface based highly integrated Super I/O. The
SIS950 provides the most commonly used legacy Super I/O functionality
plus the latest Environment Control initiatives, such as Hardware
Monitor, Fan Speed Controller and SiS’s "SmartGuardian" function. The
device’s LPC interface complies with Intel "LPC Interface
Specification Rev. 1.0" (Sept. 29, 1997). The SIS950 meets the
"Microsoft PC98 & PC99 System Design Guide" requirements and is ACPI
compliant.
The SIS950 features the enhanced hardware monitor providing 3 thermal
inputs from remote thermistors, thermal diode or diode-connected
transistor (2N3904). The device also provides the SiS innovative
intelligent automatic Fan ON/OFF & speed control functions
(SmartGuardian) to reduce overall system noise and power consumption.
The SIS950 has integrated nine logical devices, featuring an
Environment Controller (controls three Fans). The Environment
Controller has temperature, voltage and Fan Speed monitors. One Fan
Speed Controller is responsible to control three fan speeds through
three 128 steps of Pulse Width Modulation (PWM) output pins and to
monitor three fan's tachometer inputs.
Other features include one high-performance 2.88MB floppy disk
controller, with digital data separator, supporting two 360K/ 720K/
1.2M/ 1.44M/ 2.88M floppy disk drives. One multi-mode high-performance
parallel port features the bi-directional Standard Parallel Port
(SPP), the Enhanced Parallel Port (EPP V. 1.7 and EPP V. 1.9 are
supported), and the IEEE 1284 compliant Extended Capabilities Port
(ECP). Two 16C550 standard compatible enhanced UARTs perform
asynchronous communication, and support IR, one consumer remote
control (TV remote) IR, one MPU-401 UART mode compatible MIDI port,
one game port with built-in 558 quad timers and buffer chips to
support direct connection of 2 joysticks, and six ports (48 GPIO
pins). There is also a flash ROM interface with Address (FA[0:18]),
Data (FD[0:7]), and supporting three control signals FCS#, FWE# and
FRD#. In addition, a SmartGuardian engine is provided to monitor the
system condition and reacts to the detected condition accordingly.
These nine logical devices can be individually enabled or disabled via
software configuration registers. The SIS950 utilizes power-efficient
circuitry to reduce power consumption. Once a logical device is
disabled, the inputs are gated inhibit, the outputs are TRI-STATE and
the input clock is disabled. The SIS950 requires a single 48/24 MHz
clock input and operates with a single +5V power supply.
The SIS950 is available in 128-pin PQFP (Plastic Quad Flat Package).
***Versions:...
***Features:...
**Other:...
**PII/III/Pro...
**Athlon etc...
*Symphony...
*TI (Texas Instruments)...
*UMC...
*Unresearched:...
*VIA...
**SL9025 Address Controller <Jan90
***Info:...
***Versions:...
***Features:...
**SL9030 Integrated Peripheral Controller <Jan90...
**SL9090/A Universal PC/AT Clock Chip <oct88...
**SL9095 Power Management Unit ?
***Info:...
***Versions:...
***Features:...
**SL9151 80286 Page Interleave Memory Controller (16-25MHz) ?...
**SL9250 80386SX Page Mode Memory Controller (16/20MHz 8MB) ?...
**SL9251 80386SX Page Interleave Memory Controller <04/13/90...
**SL9252 80386SX System and Memory Controller <06/12/90...
**SL9350 80386DX Page Mode Memory Controller (16-25MHz 16MB) ?...
**SL9351 80386DX Page Interleave Memory Controller (33MHz) ?...
**SL9352 80386DX System and Memory Controller <06/12/90...
**SLXXXX Other chips
SL9091 Video Clock Chip
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**VT82C470 "Jupiter", Chip Set (w/o cache) 386 [no datasheet] ?
**VT82C475 "Jupiter", Chip Set (w/cache) 386 [no datasheet] ?
**VT82C486/2/3 "GMC chipset" [no datasheet, some info] ?...
**VT82C495/480 "Venus" Chip Set [no datasheet] ?
**VT82C495/491 ? EISA Chip Set [no datasheet, some info] <93...
**VT82C496G Pluto, Green PC 80486 PCI/VL/ISA System <05/30/94...
**VT82C530MV 3.3V Pentium chipset [no datasheet, some info]<05/30/94...
**VT82C570M Apollo Master, Green Pentium/P54C <06/22/95...
**VT82C580VP Apollo VP, Pentium/M1/K5 PCI/ISA System <02/15/96...
**VT82C580VPX Apollo VPX, VPX/97, Pentium with 66/75MHz Bus <01/09/97...
**VT82C590 Apollo VP2, VP2/97, Single-Chip Pentium 66MHz <01/10/97...
**VT82C597/AT Apollo VP3, Single-Chip for Pentium with AGP <10/03/97...
**VT82C598MVP Apollo MVP3,Single-Chip 66/75/83/100MHz & AGP <09/22/97...
**VT8501 Apollo MVP4,Single-Chip 66-100MHz & AGP <11/04/98...
**VT82C680 Apollo P6, Pentium-Pro Chip Set <08/30/96...
**Support chips:
**VT82C505 Pentium/486 VL to PCI Bridge <05/30/94...
**VT82C586/A/B PCI Integrated Peripheral Controller <10/13/96...
**VT82C596/A Mobile PCI Integrated Peripheral Controller <11/05/97...
**VT82C686A/B PCI Super-I/O Integrated Peripheral Ctrl. <02/10/98...
**Later P-Pro/II/III/Celeron...
**Later AMD...
**Other...
*VLSI...
*Western Digital...
*Winbond...
*ZyMOS...
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