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Memory Controller Hub (8240)
The following table shows the features that are available in the MCH Host
Bridge/Controller.
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• | Processor/Host Bus: |
| • Accelerated Graphics Port (AGP) Interface: |
| ❒ Supports up to two Pentium III processors at: 100 MHz/133 |
| ❒ Single Universal AGP PRO connector. |
| MHz Host Bus frequency. |
| ❒ AGP Rev 2.0 compliant, including AGP 4x data transfers and |
| ❒ Supports full Symmetric Multiprocessor (SMP) Protocol for |
| 2x/4x Fast Write protocol. |
| up to two processors. |
| ❒ AGP Universal Connector support via dual mode buffers to al- |
| ❒ Provides an |
| low AGP 2.0 3.3 V or 1.5 V signalling. |
| outstanding transaction requests on the host bus. |
| ❒ AGP PIPE# or SBA initiated accesses to DRAM is not |
| ❒ Desktop optimized GTL+ bus driver technology (gated GTL+ |
| snooped |
| receivers for reduced power). |
| ❒ AGP FRAME initiated accesses to DRAM are snooped |
| ❒ Support for |
| (snooper identifies that data is coherent in cache memory). |
| ❒ IERR and BERR signals generate SCi/SERR. |
| ❒ Hierarchical PCI configuration mechanism. |
| ❒ Parity protection on address and resource signals: |
| ❒ Delayed transaction support for |
| Parity errors generate SERR. |
| cannot be serviced immediately. |
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• | Memory Controller. |
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| ❒ Dual Direct Rambus Channels operating in |
| ❒ Up to 8 GB of SDRAM using four external Memory Repeater |
| channels must be populated with a memory module). |
| Hubs for SDRAM |
| Supporting 300 MHz or 400 MHz. |
| Currently, two |
| ❒ RDRAM 64 Mb, 128 Mb, 256 Mb devices. |
| ❒ Interleaved 100 MHz support using 4 |
| ❒ Minimum upgrade increment of 16 MB using 64 Mb DRAM |
| bandwidth. |
| technology. |
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| ❒ Up to 64 Direct Rambus devices (without using |
| cost and upgrade path. |
| Dual channel maximum memory array size is: |
| ❒ Unbuffered DIMMs are supported. |
| — 512 MB using 64 Mb DRAM technology. |
| ❒ Up to 4 rows or 2 DS DIMMs per |
| — 1 GB using 128 Mb DRAM technology. |
| ❒ Up to 8 simultaneous open pages: |
| — 2 GB using 256 Mb DRAM technology. |
| — 2 KByte page size support for 64 Mbit SDRAM devices. |
| ❒ Up to 8 simultaneous open pages: |
| — 4 KByte - 16 KByte page sizes supporting 64 MBit to |
| — 1 KByte page size support for 64 Mbit, 128 Mbit and 256 |
| 256 Mbit SDRAM devices. |
| Mbit RDRAM devices. |
| ❒ Configurable optional ECC operation: |
| — KByte page size support for 256 Mbit RDRAM devices. |
| — ECC with single bit Error Correction and multiple bit Error |
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| Detection. |
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| — Single bit errors corrected and written back to memory |
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| (scrubbing). |
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• Hub Link |
| • Hub Link | |
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| (266 MB/sec). |
| (533 MB/sec). |
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