South Bridge

Item

 

Specification

 

 

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.

 

 

 

Feature

609-pin BGA package

 

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

 

 

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

 

 

on four ports and AHCI support

 

USB host interface with support for eight USB ports; four UHCI host

 

 

controllers; one EHCI high speed USB 2.0 host controller

 

System Management Bus (SMBus) specification, version 2.0 with

 

 

additional support for I2C devices

 

Azalia specification support

 

Low pin count (LPC) interface support

 

I/O APIC 2.0

 

 

 

System Clock

Item

 

Specification

 

 

General

All clocks are generated by G965 and CK505.

information

 

 

 

 

 

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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