2 System Board

Chip-Set

 

PCI/ISA Bridge Chip (82371SB)

 

This chip is encapsulated in a 208 pin plastic quad flat pack (PQFP)

 

package.

PCI Bus Interface

This part of the chip performs PCI-to-ISA, and ISA-to-PCI bus cycle

 

translation. It supports the Plug-and-Play mechanism.

ISA Bus Interface

As well as accepting cycles from the PCI bus interface, and translating them

 

for the ISA bus, the ISA bus interface also requests the PCI master bridge to

 

generate PCI cycles on behalf of a DMA or ISA master. The ISA bus interface

 

contains a standard ISA bus controller and data buffering logic. It can directly

 

support six ISA slots without external data or address buffering.

IDE Controller

The PCI master/slave IDE controller, supporting four devices, two on each of

 

two channels, is described on page 34.

USB Controller

The PCI USB controller, supporting two connectors, is described on page 36.

DMA Controller

The seven channel DMA controller incorporates the functionality of two

 

82C37 DMA controllers. Channels 0 to 3 are for 8-bit DMA devices, while

 

channels 5 to 7 are for 16-bit devices (see page 82). The channels can be

 

programmed for any of the four transfer modes: the three active modes

 

(single, demand, block), can perform three different types of transfer: read,

 

write and verify. The address generation circuitry can only support a 24-bit

 

address for DMA devices.

Interrupt Controller

The sixteen channel interrupt controller incorporates the functionality of

 

two 82C59 interrupt controllers. The two controllers are cascaded, giving 14

 

external and two internal interrupt sources (see page 82).

Counter / Timer

The chip contains a three-channel 82C54 counter/timer. The counters use a

 

division of the 14.31818 MHz OSC input as the clock source.

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