82801FB Datasheet, PDF (40/786 Pages) Intel Corporation – Intel I/O Controller Hub 6 (ICH6) Family

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Intel^® ICH6 Family Features
„ New: Direct Media Interface
— 10 Gb/s each direction, full duplex
— Transparent to software
„ New: PCI Express*
— 4 PCI Express root ports
— Fully PCI Express 1.0a compliant
— Can be statically configured as 4x1, or 1x4
(Enterprise applications only)
— Two virtual channel support for full
isochronous data transfers
— Support for full 2.5 Gb/s bandwidth in each
direction per x1 lane
— Module based Hot-Plug supported (e.g.,
ExpressCard*)
„ PCI Bus Interface
— Supports PCI Rev 2.3 Specification at
33 MHz
— New: Seven available PCI REQ/GNT pairs
— Support for 64-bit addressing on PCI using
DAC protocol
„ New: Integrated Serial ATA Host Controller
— Four ports (Desktop Only) or two ports
(Mobile Only).
— Data transfer rates up to 1.5 Gb/s
(150 MB/s).
— Integrated AHCI controller (ICH6-M /
ICH6R Only)
„ Integrated IDE Controller
— Independent timing of up to two drives
— Ultra ATA/100/66/33, BMIDE and PIO
modes
— Tri-state modes to enable swap bay
„ New: 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,
192 kHz sample rate output
— Provides mic array support
— Supports memory-based command/response
transport
— Allows for non-48 kHz sampling output
— Support for ACPI Device States
„ AC-Link for Audio and Telephony CODECs
— 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
— Integrated ASF Management Controller
— EfM 2.0
— LAN Connect Interface (LCI)
— 10/100 Mb/s Ethernet Support
„ Power Management Logic
— ACPI 2.0 compliant
— ACPI-defined power states (C1, S1, S3–S5
for Desktop and C1-C4, S1, S3–S5 for
Mobile)
— ACPI Power Management Timer
— (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 I/F
— Integrated Pull-down and Series resistors on
USB
„ Enhanced DMA Controller
— Two cascaded 8237 DMA controllers
— Supports LPC DMA
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Intel^® I/O Controller Hub 6 (ICH6) Family Datasheet