Datasheet 33
 Intel
®
 Celeron
®
 Processor up to 1.10 GHz
2.11 AGTL+ System Bus Specifications
It is recommended that the AGTL+ bus be routed in a daisy-chain fashion with termination 
resistors to V
TT at each end of the signal trace. These termination resistors are placed electrically 
between the ends of the signal traces and the V
TT voltage supply and generally are chosen to 
approximate the substrate impedance. The valid high and low levels are determined by the input 
buffers using a reference voltage called V
REF. Single ended termination may be possible if trace 
lengths are tightly controlled, see the Intel
®
 440EX AGPset Design Guide (Order Number 290637) 
or the Intel
®
 Celeron
®
 Processor (PPGA) with the Intel
®
 440LX AGPset Design Guide (Order 
Number 245088) for more information.
Table 8 below lists the nominal specification for the AGTL+ termination voltage (V
TT). The 
AGTL+ reference voltage (V
REF) is generated on the processor substrate (S.E.P. Package only) for 
the processor core, but should be set to 
2
/
3
 VTT for other AGTL+ logic using a voltage divider on 
the motherboard. It is important that the motherboard impedance be specified and held to:
• ±20% tolerance (S.E.E.P. and PPGA)
• ±15% tolerance (FC-PGA/FC-PGA2) 
It is also important that the intrinsic trace capacitance for the AGTL+ signal group traces is known 
and well-controlled. For more details on AGTL+, see the Pentium
®
 II Processor Developer's 
Manual (Order Number 243502) and AP-585, Pentium
®
 II Processor AGTL+ Guidelines (Order 
Number 243330).
NOTES:
1. Unless otherwise noted, all specifications in this table apply to all Celeron processor frequencies.
2. V
TT must be held to 1.5 V ± 9%; dICC
VTT
/dt is specified in Table 5. It is recommended that VTT be held to 
1.5 V ± 3% while the Intel Celeron processor system bus is idle. This is measured at the processor edge 
fingers.
3. V
REF is generated on the processor substrate to be 
2
/
3
 VTT nominally with the S.E.P. package. It must be 
created on the motherboard for processors in the PPGA package.
4. V
TT and Vcc
1.5
 must be held to 1.5V ±9%. It is required that VTT and Vcc
1.5
 be held to 1.5 V ±3% while the 
processor system bus is idle (static condition). This is measured at the PGA370 socket pins on the bottom 
side of the baseboard.
5. The value of the on-die R
TT
 is determined by the resistor value measured by the RTTCTRL signal pin. The 
on-die R
TT
 tolerance is ±15% based on the RTTCTRL resistor pull-down of ±1%. See Section 7.0 for more 
details on the RTTCTRL signal. Refer to the recommendation guidelines for the specific chipset/processor 
combination.
6. V
REF is generated on the motherboard and should be 2/3 VTT ±2% nominally. Insure that there is adequate 
V
REF decoupling on the motherboard.
Table 8.  Processor AGTL+ Bus Specifications
Symbol Parameter Min Typ Max Units Notes
V
TT
Bus Termination Voltage
• S.E.P.P and PPGA 1.365 1.50 1.635 V 1.5 V ± 9%
 2
•FC-PGA/FC-PGA2 1.50 V 4
R
TT
Termination Resistor
• S.E.P.P and PPGA 56 Ω ± 5%
•FC-PGA/FC-PGA2 
(on die R
TT)
40 130 Ω 5
V
REF
Bus Reference Voltage
• S.E.P.P and PPGA
2
/
3
 VTT V± 2% 
3
• FC-PGA/FC-PGA2 0.950 2/3 VTT 1.05 V 6