South Bridge
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General | The Intel ICH8 is the other main component of the Intel Broadwater | |
Information | chipset that integrates many I/O functions and provides the I/O subsystem | |
| with access to the rest of the platform. | |
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| • | Direct Media Interface (DMI) to the GMCH |
| • | PCI Express specification, revision1.0 compliant |
| • | Four PCI Express Root ports support |
| • | PCI local bus specification, revision 2.3 compliant with support for |
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| 33MHz PCI operations (seven PCI Request/Grant pairs support) |
| • | ACPI power management logic support |
| • | Enhanced DMA controller, interrupt controller, and timer functions |
| • | Integrated Serial ATA host controller with independent DMA operation |
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| on four ports and AHCI support |
| • | USB host interface with support for eight USB ports; four UHCI host |
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| controllers; one EHCI high speed USB 2.0 host controller |
| • | System Management Bus (SMBus) specification, version 2.0 with |
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| additional support for I2C devices |
| • | Azalia specification support |
| • | Low pin count (LPC) interface support |
| • | I/O APIC 2.0 |
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System Clock
Item |
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General | All clocks are generated by G965 and CK505. | |
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Clock | • | Host: 133/200/266MHz (system bus 533/800/1066MHz) |
synthesizer | • | Memory system (DDR2): 533/667/800MHz |
| • | PCI: 33MHz |
| • | PCI Express: 100MHz |
| • | DMI: 100MHz |
| • | USB: 48MHz |
| • | 1394: 33MHz |
| • | SIO: 33MHz |
| • | ICH8: 14.318, 33, 48, and 100MHz |
| • | RTC: 32.768KHz |
| • | LAN: 25MHz |
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