The Intel® 440BX AGPset is intended for the Pentium® II processor platform and emerging 3D graphics/multimedia applications. The 82443BX Host Bridge provides a Host-to-PCI bridge, optimized DRAM controller and data path, and an Accelerated Graphic Port (AGP) interface. AGP is a high performance, component level interconnect targeted at 3D graphics applications and is based on a set of performance enhancements to PCI.

The I/O subsystem portion of the Intel® 440BX AGPset platform is based on the 82371EB (PIIX4E), a highly integrated version of the Intel’s PCI-ISA bridge family. The Intel® 440BX AGPset is ideal for the Mobile AGPset Pentium II processor platforms; providing full support for all system suspend modes and segmented power planes.

Intel 82443BX Features

• Processor/host bus support

   — Optimized for Pentium® II processor at 100 MHz system bus frequency; Support for 66 MHz

   — Supports full symmetric Multiprocessor (SMP) Protocol for up to two processors; I/O APIC related buffer management support (WSC# signal)

   — In-order transaction and dynamic deferred transaction support

   — Desktop optimized GTL+ bus driver technology (gated GTL+ receivers for reduced power)

• Integrated DRAM controller

   — 8 to 512 Mbytes or 1GB (with registered DIMMs)

   — Supports up to 4 double-sided DIMMs (8 rows memory)

   — 64-bit data interface with ECC support (SDRAM only)

   — Unbuffered and Registered SDRAM (Synchronous) DRAM Support (x-1-1-1 access @ 66 MHz, x-1-1-1 access @ 100 MHz)

   — Enhanced SDRAM Open Page Architecture Support for 16- and 64-Mbit DRAM devices with 2k, 4k and 8k page sizes

• PCI bus interface

   — PCI Rev. 2.1, 3.3V and 5V, 33MHz interface compliant

   — PCI Parity Generation Support

   — Data streaming support from PCI to DRAM

   — Delayed Transaction support for PCI-DRAM Reads

   — Supports concurrent CPU, AGP and PCI transactions to main memory

• AGP interface

   — Supports single AGP compliant device (AGP-66/133 3.3V device)

   — AGP Specification Rev 1.0 compliant

   — AGP-data/transaction flow optimized arbitration mechanism

   — AGP side-band interface for efficient request pipelining without interfering with the data streams

   — AGP-specific data buffering

   — Supports concurrent CPU, AGP and PCI transactions to main memory

   — AGP high-priority transactions (“expedite”) support

• Power Management Functions

   — Stop Clock Grant and Halt special cycle translation (host to PCI Bus)

   — Mobile and “Deep Green” Desktop support for system suspend/resume (i.e., DRAM and power-on suspend)

   — Dynamic power down of idle DRAM rows

   — SDRAM self-refresh power down support in suspend mode

   — Independent, internal dynamic clock gating reduces average power dissipation

   — Static STOP CLOCK support

   — Power-on Suspend mode

   — Suspend to DRAM

   — ACPI compliant power management

• Packaging/Voltage

   — 492 Pin BGA

   — 3.3V core and mixed 3.3V and GTL I/O

• Supporting I/O Bridge

   — System Management Bus (SMB) with support for DIMM Serial Presence Detect (SPD)

   — PCI-ISA Bridge (PIIX4E)

   — Power Management Support

   — 3.3V core and mixed 5V, 3.3V I/O and interface to the 2.5V CPU signals via open-drain output buffers