Intel® 820E Chipset

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FWH Flash BIOS

The FWH Flash BIOS component is a key element in providing a new security and manageability infrastructure for the PC platform. The device operates under the FWH Flash BIOS interface and protocol. The hardware features of this device include a unique Random Number Generator (RNG), register-based locking, and hardware-based locking.

ISA Bridge

For legacy needs, ISA support is an optional feature of the Intel 820E chipset. Implementations that require ISA support can benefit from the enhancements of the Intel 820E chipset, while “ISA-less” designs are not burdened with the complexity and cost of the ISA subsystem.

The Intel 820E chipset platform with optional ISA support takes advantage of an external component supplier’s ISA bridge, which is a PCI-to-ISA bridge that resides on the PCI bus of the ICH2.

1.3.2.Bandwidth Summary

The following table provides a summary of the bandwidth requirements for the Intel 820E chipset.

Table 1. Intel® 820E Chipset Platform Bandwidth Summary

Interface

Clock Speed

Samples

Data Rate

Data Width

Bandwidth

 

(MHz)

Per Clock

(megasamples/s)

(Bytes)

(MB/s)

 

 

 

 

 

 

Processor bus

100/133

1

100/133

8

800/1066

 

 

 

 

 

 

RDRAM

266/300/356/400

2

533/600/711/800

2

1066/1200/1422/1600

 

 

 

 

 

 

AGP 2.0

66

4

266

4

1066

 

 

 

 

 

 

Hub interface

66

4

266

1

266

 

 

 

 

 

 

PCI 2.2

33

1

33

4

133

 

 

 

 

 

 

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Intel manual FWH Flash Bios, ISA Bridge, Intel 820E Chipset Platform Bandwidth Summary, Rdram