307013-003 Datasheet, PDF (35/848 Pages) Intel Corporation – Intel I/O Controller Hub 7

Intel^® ICH7 Family Features
„ Direct Media Interface
— 10 Gb/s each direction, full duplex
— Transparent to software
„ PCI Express* (Desktop and Mobile Only)
— 4 PCI Express root ports
— NEW: 2 Additional PCI Express root ports (ICH7R/
Digital Home only) configurable as x1 only
— Supports PCI Express 1.0a
— Ports 1-4 can be statically configured as 4x1, or 1x4.
— Support for full 2.5 Gb/s bandwidth in each direction
per x1 lane
— Module based Hot-Plug supported
(e.g., ExpressCard*) (Desktop and Mobile Only)
„ PCI Bus Interface
— Supports PCI Rev 2.3 Specification at 33 MHz
— New: Six available PCI REQ/GNT pairs (3 pairs on
Ultra Mobile)
— Support for 64-bit addressing on PCI using DAC
protocol
„ Integrated Serial ATA Host Controller (Desktop and Mobile
Only)
— Four ports (desktop only) or two ports (Mobile only)
— NEW: Data transfer rates up to 3.0 Gb/s
(300 MB/s) (Desktop Only)
— Integrated AHCI controller
(RAID, Digital Home and Mobile only)
„ Intel^® Matrix Storage Technology
(RAID and Digital Home only)
— Configures the ICH7 SATA controller as a RAID
controller supporting RAID 0/1/10 (RAID and ICH7
DH only)
— Configures the ICH7 SATA controller as a RAID
controller supporting RAID 0/1 (ICH7-M DH)
— NEW: Support for RAID 5 (RAID and ICH7 DH only)
„ Integrated IDE Controller
— Independent timing of up to two drives (one drive on
Ultra Mobile)
— Ultra ATA/100/66/33, BMIDE and PIO modes
— Tri-state modes to enable swap bay
— Supports ATA/ATAPI-7
„ Intel^® High Definition Audio Interface
— PCI Express endpoint
— Independent Bus Master logic for eight general purpose
streams: four input and four output
— Support three external Codecs
— Supports variable length stream slots
— Supports multichannel, 32-bit sample depth and 192
kHz sample rate output
— Provides mic array support
— Allows for non-48 kHz sampling output
— Support for ACPI Device States
— NEW: Docking Support (Mobile Only)
— NEW: Low Voltage Mode (Mobile/Ultra Mobile Only)
„ AC-Link for Audio and Telephony CODECs (Desktop and
Mobile Only)
— Support for three AC ‘97 2.3 codecs.
— Independent bus master logic for 8 channels (PCM In/
Out, PCM 2 In, Mic 1 Input, Mic 2 Input, Modem In/
Out, S/PDIF Out)
— Support for up to six channels of PCM audio output
(full AC3 decode)
— Supports wake-up events
„ USB 2.0
— Includes four UHCI Host Controllers, supporting eight
external ports
— Includes one EHCI Host Controller that supports all
eight ports
— Includes one USB 2.0 High-speed Debug Port
— Supports wake-up from sleeping states S1–S5
— Supports legacy Keyboard/Mouse software
„ Integrated LAN Controller (Desktop and Mobile Only)
— Integrated ASF Management Controller
— Supports IEEE 802.3
— LAN Connect Interface (LCI)
— 10/100 Mb/s Ethernet Support
„ NEW: Intel Active Management Technology (Desktop and
Mobile Only)
„ NEW: Intel^® Quick Resume Technology Support (Digital
Home Only)
„ Power Management Logic
— Supports ACPI 3.0
— ACPI-defined power states (C1, S1, S3–S5 for Desktop
and C1–C4, S1, S3–S5 for Mobile/Ultra Mobile)
— ACPI Power Management Timer
— (Mobile/Ultra Mobile Only) Support for “Intel
SpeedStep^® Technology” processor power control and
“Deeper Sleep” power state
— PCI CLKRUN# and PME# support
— SMI# generation
— All registers readable/restorable for proper resume
from 0 V suspend states
— Support for APM-based legacy power management for
non-ACPI Desktop and Mobile implementations
„ External Glue Integration
— Integrated Pull-up, Pull-down and Series Termination
resistors on IDE, processor interface
— Integrated Pull-down and Series resistors on USB
„ Enhanced DMA Controller
— Two cascaded 8237 DMA controllers
— Supports LPC DMA (Desktop and Mobile Only)
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