Intel manual Hub Interface, Intel 82815 Chipset Gmch Integrated Graphics Support

Intel® 815 Chipset: Graphics Controller PRM, Rev 1.0

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Display Cache Interface

The GMCH supports a Display Cache SDRAM controller with a 32-bit 133 MHz SDRAM array. The DRAM type supported is industry standard Synchronous DRAM (SDRAM) like that of the system memory. The local memory SDRAM controller interface is fully configurable through a set of control registers.

2.2.4.Hub Interface

The hub interface is a private interconnect between the GMCH and the ICH.

2.2.5.Intel® 82815 Chipset GMCH Integrated Graphics Support

The GMCH includes a highly integrated graphics accelerator. Its architecture consists of dedicated multi- media engines executing in parallel to deliver high performance 3D, 2D and motion compensation video capabilities. The 3D and 2D engines are managed by a 3D/2D pipeline preprocessor allowing a sustained flow of graphics data to be rendered and displayed. The deeply pipelined 3D accelerator engine provides 3D graphics quality and performance via per-pixel 3D rendering and parallel data paths which allow each pipeline stage to simultaneously operate on different primitives or portions of the same primitive. The GMCH graphics accelerator engine supports perspective-correct texture mapping, trilinear and anisotropic Mip-Map filtering, Gouraud shading, alpha-blending, fogging and Z-buffering. A rich set of 3D instructions permit these features to be independently enabled or disabled.

For the GMCH, a Display Cache (DC) can be used for the Z-buffer (textures and display buffer(s) are located only in system memory). If the display cache is not used, the Z-buffer is located in system memory.

The GMCH integrated graphics accelerator’s 2D capabilities include BLT and arithmetic STRBLT engines, a hardware cursor and an extensive set of 2D registers and instructions. The high performance 64-bit BitBLT engine provides hardware acceleration for many common Windows* operations.

In addition to its 2D/3D capabilities, the GMCH integrated graphics accelerator also supports full MPEG-2 motion compensation for software-assisted DVD video playback, a VESA DDC2B compliant display interface and a digital video out port which may support (via an external video encoder) NTSC and PAL broadcast standards and (via an external TMDS transmitter) digital Flat Panel or Digital CRT displays.

Display, Digital Video Out, and LCD/Flat Panel/Digital CRT

The GMCH provides interfaces to a standard progressive scan monitor, TV-Out device, and TMDS transmitter. These interfaces are only active when running in internal graphics mode.

•The GMCH directly drives a standard progressive scan monitor up to a resolution of 1600x1200 pixels.

•The GMCH provides a Digital Video Out interface to connect an external device to drive a 1280x1024 resolution non-scalar DDP digital Flat Panel with appropriate EDID 1.2 data or digital CRTs. The interface has 1.8V signaling to allow it to operate at higher frequencies. This interface can also connect to a 1.8V TV-Out encoder.

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