Mobile Intel® 915GME Express Chipset —Theory of Operation
Mobile Intel® 915GME Express Chipset
Development Kit User’s Manual April 2007
30 Order Number: 317230-001US
For AC power loss, the system operation is defined by register settings in the Intel
ICH6-M. Upon the return of power, a BIOS option, set prior to the power loss, allows
the system to either go immediately to the S5 state, or reboot to the Full-On state, no
matter what the state was before the power loss. External logic for this functionality is
not necessary. If the BIOS remains in the S5 state after AC power loss, only the power
button or the RTC alarm can bring the system out of the S5 state. The status of enabled
wake events will be lost.

3.7 Power Measurement Support

Power measurement resistors are provided on the platform to measure the power of
most subsystems. All power measurement resistors have a tolerance of 1%. The value
of these power measurement resistors are 2 mΩ by default. Power on a particular
subsystem is calculated using the following formula:
R is the value of the sense resistor (typically 0.002 Ω)
V is the voltage measured across the sense resistor.
It is recommended that the user use a high precision digital multi-meter tool such as
the Agilent* 34401A digital multi-meter. Such a meter has 6½ digits of accuracy and
can provide a much greater accuracy in power measurement that a common 3½ digit
multimeter.
Tab le 6 summarizes all the power measurement sense resistors located on the Mobile
Intel® 915GME Express Chipset platform. All sense resistors are 0.002 Ω unless
otherwise noted.
RV
P2
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Table 6. Mobile Intel® 915GME Express Chipset Voltage Rails (Sheet 1 of 4)
Voltage Groups Voltage Rail Reference
Designator
1.0 +V1 U8A2.6
NC1-6_R R8A3.2
1.5 +V1.5 Q3J2.1-3
+V1.5_VCCAUX R7V1.1
1.5 Always +V1.5A R3J12.2
+V1.5A_ICH R7V2.1
1.5 Switched +V1.5S Q3Y1.1-3
+V1.5S_DLVDS R5U15.1
+V1.5S_DDRDLL C5R3.1
+V1.5S_S_PCIE C5T7.2
+V1.5S_3GPLL (0.5Ω) R6R1.1
+V1.5S_MPLL C4T1.1
+V1.5S_HPLL C4R7.1
+V1.5S_DPLLA C5T12.1
+V1.5S_DPLLB C5T9.1
+V1.5S_HMPLL R4D1.2