2 System Board

Chip-Set

 

and slave controllers are connected.

Counter / Timer

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

 

division of the 14.318 MHz OSC input as the clock source.

Serial EEPROM

This is the non-volatile memory which holds the values for the Setup

 

program (they are no longer stored in the CMOS memory). The Serial

 

EEPROM is described on page 43.

 

Cache Memory

 

There are two integrated circuits sealed within a single Pentium II package.

 

One of these contains the Level-2 (L2) cache memory chip; the other

 

contains the processor, which itself includes two banks of Level-1 (L1)

 

cache memory.

 

The L1 cache memory has a total capacity of 32KB (16 KB data, 16 KB

 

instruction). The L2 cache memory has a capacity 512 KB, and is composed

 

of four-way set-associative static RAM. Data is stored in lines of 32-bytes

 

(256 bits). Thus two consecutive 128-bit transfers with the main memory

 

are involved for each transaction.

 

The amount of cache memory is set by Intel at the time of manufacture, so

 

cannot be changed.

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