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**A note on VESA support of 486 chipsets.
Many chipsets state that they support VESA local bus. In some cases
these actually implement VLB somewhat like PCI, where it is entirly
decoupled from the CPU bus. Chipsets that do not state they work with
VLB, may be found on motherboards that contain VLB slots. VLB
is *basically* The 486 CPU pinout in a slot form. Unless these
m/boards contain some additional chips, there VLB implementation is
directly coupled to the CPU.
**Datasheets:...
*_IBM...
*ACC Micro...
*ALD...
*ALi...
*AMD . . . . . . . [no datasheets, some info]...
*Chips & Technologies...
**82C110 IBM PS/2 Model 30/Super XT ?
***Notes:...
***Info:...
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***Features:...
**82C235 Single Chip AT (SCAT) c89...
**82C836 Single Chip 386sx (SCATsx) <91...
**F8680/A PC/CHIP Single-Chip PC c93...
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**Support Chips:
**64200 (Wingine) High Performance 'Windows Engine' c:Oct91...
**82C206 Integrated Peripheral Controller c86...
**82C601/A Single Chip Peripheral Controller <08/30/90...
**82C607 Multifunction Controller <Jun88...
**82C710 Universal Peripheral Controller c:Aug90...
**82C711 Universal Peripheral Controller II c:Jan91...
**82C712 Universal Peripheral Controller II c:Jan91...
**82C721 Universal Peripheral Controller III c:May93...
**82C735 I/O Peripheral Controller With Printgine c:Jul93...
**82C835 Single CHIP 386sx AT Cache Controller c:Apr91...
**F87000 Multi-Mode Peripheral Chip 11/23/93...
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*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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**5571 (Trinity) Pentium PCI/ISA Chipset (75MHz) <12/09/96
***Info:
[no general section in datasheet]
3. Functional Description
3.1 DRAM Controller
3.1.1 DRAM Type
The SiS5571 can support up to 384MBytes (3 banks) of DRAMs and each
bank could be single or double sided 64 bits FP (Fast Page mode) DRAM,
EDO (Extended Data Output) DRAM, and SDRAM (Synchronous DRAM)
DRAM. Half populated bank(32-bit) is also supported.
The installed DRAM type can be 256K, 512k, 1M, 2M, 4M or 16M bit deep
by n bit wide DRAMs, and both symmetrical and asymmetrical type DRAM
are supported. It is also permissible to mix the DRAMs (FP/EDO/SDRAM)
bank by bank and the corresponding DRAM timing will be switched
automatically according to register settings.
3.1.2 DRAM Configuration
The SiS5571 can support single sided or double sided DRAM modules for
each bank. The basic configurations are shown as the following:
3.1.3 Double-sided DRAM [omitted see datasheet]
3.1.4 Single-sided DRAM [omitted see datasheet]
3.1.5 DRAM Scramble Table [omitted see datasheet]
3.1.6 64-bit mapping table [omitted see datasheet]
3.2 DRAM Performance [omitted see datasheet]
3.3 CPU to DRAM Posted Write FIFOs
There is a built-in CPU to Memory posted write buffer with 8 QWord
deep ( CTMFF). All the write access to DRAM will be buffered. For the
CPU read miss / Line fill cycles, the write- back data from the second
level cache will be buffered first, and right after the data had been
posted write into the FIFO, CPU can performs the read operation by the
memory controller starting to read data from DRAMs. The buffered data
are then written to DRAM whenever no any other read DRAM request
comes. With this concurrent write back policy, many wait states are
eliminated. If there comes a bunch of continuous DRAM write cycles,
some ones will be pending if the CTMFF is full.
3.4 32-bit (Half-Populated) DRAM Access
For the read access, there will be either single or burst read cycle
to access the DRAM which depends on the cacheability of the cycle. If
the current DRAM configuration is half-populated bank, then the
SiS5571 will assert 8 consecutive cycles to access DRAM for the burst
cycle. For the single cycle that only accesses DRAM within a DWord,
the SiS5571 will only issue one cycle to access DRAM. For the single
cycle that accesses one Qword or cross DWord boundary, the SiS5571
will issue two consecutive cycles to access DRAM.
3.5 Arbiter
The arbiter is the interface between the DRAM controller and the host
which can access DRAMs. In addition to pass or translate the
information from outside to DRAM controller, arbiter is also
responsible for which master has higher priority to access DRAMs. The
arbiter treats different DRAM access request as DRAM master, and that
makes there be 5 masters which are trying to access DRAMs by sending
their request to the arbiter. After one of them get the grant from the
arbiter, it owns DRAM bus and begins to do memory data transaction.
The masters are: CPU read request, PCI master, Posted write FIFO write
request, and Refresh request. The order of these masters shown above
also stands for their priority to access memory.
3.6 Refresh cycle
The refresh cycle will occur every 15.6 us. It is timed by a counter
of 14Mhz input. The CAS[7:0]# will be asserted at the same time, and
the RAS[5:0]# are asserted sequentially.
3.7 PCI bridge
SiS5571 is able to operate at both asynchronous and synchronous PCI
clocks. Synchronous mode is provided for those synchronous system to
improve the overall system performance. While in the PCI master write
cycles, post-write is always performed. And function of Write Merge
with CPU-to-DRAM post-write buffer is incorporated to eliminate the
penalty of snooping write-back. On the other hand, prefetch is enabled
for master read cycles by default, and such function could be disabled
optionally. And, Direct-Read from CPU-to-DRAM post-write buffer is
implemented to eliminate the overhead of snooping write-back also. In
addition to Write-Merge and Direct-Read, Snoop-Ahead also hides the
overhead of inquiry cycles for master to main memory cycles. These key
functions, Write-Merge, Direct-Read and Snoop-Ahead, achieve the
purpose of zero wait for PCI burst transfer. The post-write and
prefetch buffers are both 16 Double-Word deep FIFOs.
3.8 Snooping Control [omitted see datasheet]
3.9 AHOLD/BOFF# Process and Arbiter Interface [omitted see datasheet]
3.10 Target Initiated Termination [omitted see datasheet]
3.11 DATA Flow [omitted see datasheet]
3.12 PCI Master Read/Write DRAM Cycle [omitted see datasheet]
***Configurations:...
***Features:
o Supports Intel Pentium CPU and other compatible CPU at
75/66/60/50MHz (external clock speed)
o Supports the Pipelined Address Mode of Pentium CPU
o Supports the Full 64-bit Pentium Processor data Bus
o Supports 32-bit PCI Interface
o Integrated Second Level (L2) Cache Controller
- Write Through and Write Back Cache Modes
- 8 bits or 7 bits Tag with Direct Mapped Cache Organization
- Integrated 16K bits Dirty Ram
- Supports Pipelined Burst SRAM
- Supports 256 KBytes to 512 MBytes Cache Sizes
- Cache Read/Write Cycle of 3-1-1-1-1-1-1-1 at 66 MHz
o Integrated DRAM Controller
- Supports 3 Banks of FP/EDO SIMMs, or 2 Banks of SDRAM DIMMs
- Supports 2Mbytes to 384Mbytes of main memory
- Supports 256K/512K/1M/2M/4M/16M x N FP/EDO/SDRAM DRAM
- Supports 3V or 5V DRAM.
- Supports Symmetrical and Asymmetrical DRAM.
- Supports 32 bits/64 bits mixed mode configuration
- Supports Concurrent Write Back for FP/EDO DRAM
- Supports Mixed DRAM (FP/EDO/SDRAM) Technology
- Supports CAS before RAS Refresh
- Supports Relocation of System Management Memory
- Programmable CAS# ,RAS#, RAMW# and MA Driving Current
- Fully Configurable for the Characteristic of Shadow RAM (640
KBytes to 1 MBytes)
- Supports FP DRAM 5-3-3-3(-3-3-3-3) Burst Read Cycles
- Supports EDO DRAM 4/5-2-2-2(-2-2-2-2) Burst Read Cycles
- Supports SDRAM 6/7-1-1-1(-2-1-1-1) Burst Read Cycles
- Supports X-1-1-1/X-2-2-2/X-3-3-3 Burst Write Cycles
- Supports 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
- Supports SMM Mode of CPU
- Supports CPU Stop Clock
- Supports Break Switch
- Supports Modem Ring Wakeup
- Supports Automatic Power Supply Control
o Provides High Performance PCI Arbiter.
- Supports 3 internal masters and 5 external PCI Masters
- Supports Rotating Priority Mechanism
- Hidden Arbitration Scheme Minimizes Arbitration Overhead.
- Supports Concurrency between CPU to Memory and PCI to PCI.
o Integrated Host-to-PCI Bridge
- Supports Asynchronous/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
- Supports 8 DW Deep Buffer for CPU-to-PCI Posted Write Cycles
- Supports Pipelined Process in CPU-to-PCI Access
- Supports Advance Snooping for PCI Master Bursting
- Maximum PCI Burst Transfer from 256 Bytes to 4 Kbytes
- Fast back-to-back
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-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 Built-in one 32-bit General Purpose Register
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
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
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
- Supports PS/2 Mouse
- Support Hot Key "Sleep" Function
o Built-in Real Time Clock(RTC) with 256B CMOS SRAM
o Fast PCI IDE Master/Slave Controller
- Fully Compatible with PCI Local Bus Specification V2.1
- Supports PCI Bus Mastering
- Plug and Play Compatible
- Supports Scatter and Gather
- Supports Dual Mode Operation - Native Mode and
Compatibility Mode
- Supports IDE PIO Timing Mode 0, 1, 2 of ANSI ATA Specification
- Supports Mode 3 and Mode 4 Timing Proposal on Enhanced IDE
Specification
- Supports Multiword DMA Mode 0, 1, 2
- Separate IDE Bus
- Two 8x32-bit FIFO for PCI Burst Read/Write Transfers.
o Universal Serial Bus Controller
- Host/Hub Controller
- Two USB ports
o On-Board Plug and Play Support
- One Steerable DMA Channel
- One Steerable Interrupt
- One Programmable Chip Select
o Supports the Reroutibility of the four PCI Interrupts
o Supports Flash ROM
o 480-Pin BGA Package
o 0.5 μm CMOS Technology
**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...
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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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