82443MX PCIset
Refresh mechanism
Supports CAS-before-RAS
Self Refresh during C3, POS and Suspend mode (STR)
Enhanced Open Page Arbitration SDRAM paging scheme
Support for DIMM serial Presence Detect scheme via SMBus interface
Support for DRAM power throttling
PCI Bus interface
PCI Rev. 2.2, 3.3V, 33 MHz interface compliant
Asynchronous coupling to the host bus/core frequency
PCI parity generation support
CPU-to-PCI write assembly of full/partial line writes
Combines back-to-back sequential CPU-to-PCI memory writes into PCI burst writes
Data streaming support from PCI to DRAM (~120 MB/s for writes, ~100MB/s for reads)
Delayed transaction support for PCI reads which cannot be serviced immediately
Supports concurrent CPU, PCI transactions to main memory
Integrated PCI arbiter with multi-transaction arbitration mechanism
4 PCI bus masters support for combination of Graphic, LAN, CardBus, Audio, Modem
Overall arbitration scheme and concurrency
Distributed arbitration model for optimum concurrency support
Concurrent operations of CPU, PCI supported via dedicated arbitration and data buffering logic
PCI arbiter
CPU bus arbiter
DRAM arbitration for managing multiple request queues
Internal DRAM controller arbitration between data requests and Refresh requests
Overall data buffering
Distributed data buffering model for optimum concurrency
DRAM write buffer with read-around-write capability
Dedicated CPU-DRAM, PCI-DRAM read buffers
CPU-PCI deferred transaction buffering (bi-directional for reads and writes)
Delayed transaction read buffering for PCI path
System peripherals
Interrupt controller
15 interrupts with dual cascaded 8259
Serial interrupt input
System timer, speaker tone generator
DMA controller supports the following:
Dual cascaded 8237
DDMA
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