Product Description
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1.8.1.1 Intel
®
82815 Graphics and Memory Controller Hub (GMCH)
The GMCH provides the following:
• An integrated Synchronous DRAM memory controller with autodetection of SDRAM
• An interface for a single AGP device or a Graphics Performance Accelerator (GPA) card
• An interface for an optional digital video output (DVO) connector for a flat panel, digital CRT,
or TV-out
• Support for ACPI Rev. 2.0 and APM Rev. 1.2 compliant power management
1.8.1.2 Intel
®
82801BA I/O Controller Hub (ICH2)
The ICH2 provides the following:
• 33 MHz PCI bus interface
• Support for up to six PCI master devices
• Low Pin Count (LPC) interface that supports an LPC-compatible I/O controller
• Support for two Master/DMA devices
• Integrated IDE controller that supports Ultra DMA (33 MB/sec) and ATA-66/100 mode
(66 MB/sec, 100 MB/sec)
• Integrated LAN Media Access Controller
• Universal Serial Bus interface with two USB controllers providing four ports in a
UHCI Implementation (additional USB ports provided with the optional SMSC
LPC47M142 I/O controller)
• Power management logic for ACPI Rev. 1.0b compliance
• System Management Bus (SMBus clock and data lines also routed to PCI bus connector 2)
• Real-time clock with 256-byte battery-backed CMOS RAM
• AC ’97 digital link for audio codec, including:
AC ’97 2.1 compliance
Logic for PCM in, PCM out, and mic input
PCI functions for audio
Communication and Network Riser (CNR) interface
1.8.1.2.1 IDE Interfaces
The ICH2’s IDE controller has two independent bus-mastering IDE interfaces that can be
independently enabled. The IDE interfaces support the following modes:
• Programmed I/O (PIO): CPU controls data transfer.
• 8237-style DMA: DMA offloads the CPU, supporting transfer rates of up to 16 MB/sec.
• Ultra DMA: DMA protocol on IDE bus supporting host and target throttling and transfer rates
of up to 33 MB/sec.
• ATA-66: DMA protocol on IDE bus supporting host and target throttling and transfer rates of
up to 66 MB/sec. ATA-66 protocol is similar to Ultra DMA and is device driver compatible.
• ATA-100: DMA protocol on IDE bus allows host and target throttling. The ICH2 ATA-100
logic can achieve read transfer rates up to 100 MB/sec and write transfer rates up to 88 MB/sec.
✏ NOTE
ATA-66 and ATA-100 are faster timings and require a specialized cable to reduce reflections,
noise, and inductive coupling.