About This Manual—Mobile Intel® 915GME Express Chipset

1.3Glossary of Terms and Acronyms

This section defines conventions and terminology used throughout this document.

ADD2

ADD2 is an acronym for Advanced Digital Display, 2nd

 

Generation. ADD2 video interfaces come in two configurations:

 

Normal and Reversed. The normal is often referred to as ADD2

 

or ADD2-N and the reversed is referred to as ADD2-R. The

 

915GM platform can only support the ADD2-R video interface.

Aggressor

A network that transmits a coupled signal to another network.

AGTL+

The front-side bus uses a bus technology called AGTL+, or

 

Assisted Gunning Transceiver Logic. AGTL+ buffers are open-

 

drain, and require pull-up resistors to provide the high logic level

 

and termination. AGTL+ output buffers differ from GTL+ buffers

 

with the addition of an active pMOS pull-up transistor to assist

 

the pull-up resistors during the first clock of a low-to-high

 

voltage transition.

Asynchronous GTL+ The processor does not utilize CMOS voltage levels on any signals that connect to the processor. As a result, legacy input signals such as A20M#, IGNNE#, INIT#, LINT0/INTR, LINT1/ NMI, PWRGOOD, SMI#, SLP#, and STPCLK# utilize GTL+ input buffers. Legacy output signals (FERR# and IERR#) and non- AGTL+ signals (THERMTRIP# and PROCHOT#) also utilize GTL+ output buffers. All of these signals follow the same DC requirements as AGTL+ signals, however the outputs are not actively driven high (during a logical 0 to 1 transition) by the processor (the major difference between GTL+ and AGTL+). These signals do not have setup or hold time specifications in relation to BCLK[1:0], and are therefore referred to as “Asynchronous GTL+ Signals”. However, all of the Asynchronous GTL+ signals are required to be asserted for at least two BCLKs in order for the processor to recognize them.

Bus Agent

A component or group of components that, when combined,

 

represent a single load on the AGTL+ bus.

Crosstalk

The reception on a victim network of a signal imposed by

 

aggressor network(s) through inductive and capacitive coupling

 

between the networks.

 

Backward Crosstalk - Coupling that creates a signal in a

 

 

victim network that travels in the opposite direction as the

 

 

aggressor’s signal.

 

Forward Crosstalk - Coupling that creates a signal in a

 

 

victim network that travels in the same direction as the

 

 

aggressor’s signal.

 

Even Mode Crosstalk - Coupling from a signal or multiple

 

 

aggressors when all the aggressors switch in the same

 

 

direction that the victim is switching.

 

Odd Mode Crosstalk - Coupling from a signal or multiple

 

 

aggressors when all the aggressors switch in the opposite

 

 

direction that the victim is switching.

Flight Time

Flight time is a term in the timing equation that includes the

 

signal propagation delay, any effects the system has on the TCO

 

of the driver, plus any adjustments to the signal at the receiver

 

Mobile Intel® 915GME Express Chipset

April 2007

Development Kit User’s Manual

Order Number: 317230-001US

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