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Mobile Intel 915GME Express
Chipset
Development Kit User’s Manual
April 2007
Order Number: 317230-001US
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® Contents—Mobile Intel 915GME Express Chipset Contents 1.0 About This Manual.....................................................................................................7 1.1 Content Overview................................................................................................7 1.2 Text Conventions ................................................................................................7 1.3 Glossary of Terms and Acronyms................................................
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® Mobile Intel 915GME Express Chipset —Contents 3.5 Clock Generation ...............................................................................................28 3.6 Power Management States..................................................................................28 3.6.1 Transition to S1 or S3 .............................................................................29 3.6.2 Transition to S4......................................................................................29 3
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® Contents—Mobile Intel 915GME Express Chipset Figures ® 1 Mobile Intel 915GME Express Chipset Block Diagram ................................................. 21 ® 915GME Express Chipset Component Locations........................................ 34 2 Mobile Intel 3 Back Panel Connector Locations ................................................................................. 36 4 Configuration Jumper and Switch Locations ................................................................. 37
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® Mobile Intel 915GME Express Chipset —Contents Revision History Date Revision Description April 2007 001 Initial release of the document ® Mobile Intel 915GME Express Chipset Development Kit User’s Manual April 2007 6 Order Number: 317230-001US
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® About This Manual—Mobile Intel 915GME Express Chipset 1.0 About This Manual ® This user’s manual describes the use of the Mobile Intel 915GME Express Chipset Development Kit. This manual has been written for OEMs, system evaluators, and embedded system developers. This document defines all jumpers, headers, LED functions, and their locations on the board, along with subsystem features and POST codes. This manual assumes basic familiarity in the fundamental concepts involved with installi
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® Mobile Intel 915GME Express Chipset —About This Manual added to numbers that begin with A through F. (For example, FF is shown as 0FFH.) Decimal and binary numbers are represented by their customary notations. (That is, 255 is a decimal number and 1111 1111 is a binary number. In some cases, the letter B is added for clarity.) Units of Measure The following abbreviations are used to represent units of measure: A amps, amperes GByte gigabytes KByte kilobytes Kohms kilo-ohms mA milliamps, m
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® About This Manual—Mobile Intel 915GME Express Chipset 1.3 Glossary 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 t
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® Mobile Intel 915GME Express Chipset —About This Manual needed to ensure the setup time of the receiver. More precisely, flight time is defined as: • The time difference between a signal at the input pin of a receiving agent crossing the switching voltage (adjusted to meet the receiver manufacturer’s conditions required for AC timing specifications; i.e., ringback, etc.) and the output pin of the driving agent crossing the switching voltage when the driver is driving a test load used to s
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® About This Manual—Mobile Intel 915GME Express Chipset System Bus The System Bus is the microprocessor bus of the processor. Setup Window The time between the beginning of Setup to Clock (TSU_MIN) and the arrival of a valid clock edge. This window may be different for each type of bus agent in the system. SSO Simultaneous Switching Output (SSO) effects are differences in electrical timing parameters and degradation in signal quality caused by multiple signal outputs simultaneously switchi
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® Mobile Intel 915GME Express Chipset —About This Manual Table 1. Acronyms (Sheet 2 of 2) Acronym Definition LS Low-speed. Refers to USB MC Modem Codec PCM Pulse Code Modulation PLC Platform LAN Connect RTC Real Time Clock SATA Serial ATA System Management Bus. A two-wire interface through which various system SMBus components may communicate. SPD Serial Presence Detect STR Suspend To RAM TCO Total Cost of Ownership TDM Time Division Multiplexed TDR Time Domain Reflectometry µBGA Micro Ball Gri
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® About This Manual—Mobile Intel 915GME Express Chipset 1.6 Related Documents Table 3 provides a summary of publicly available documents related to this development kit. As supplements to the documents listed below, technical white papers ® detailing specific features of the Mobile Intel 915GME Express Chipset can be found at: http://developer.intel.com/design/chipsets/915gme/index.htm For any additional documentation, please contact your Intel Representative. Table 3. Related Documents Ord
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® Mobile Intel 915GME Express Chipset —Getting Started 2.0 Getting Started This chapter identifies the evaluation kit’s key components, features and specifications. It also details basic board setup and operation. 2.1 Overview ® The evaluation board consists of a baseboard populated with the Mobile Intel 915GME Express Chipset , other system board components, and peripheral connectors. Note: The evaluation board is shipped as an open system allowing for maximum flexibility in changing hardwar
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® Getting Started—Mobile Intel 915GME Express Chipset • Two SATA and one IDE (40 pin) Hard Drive interface • Two PCI 2.3 compliant desktop slots • 82802AC8 Firmware Hub (FWH) • 82562EZ 10/100 Mbps Platform LAN Connect (PLC) • Two x1 PCI Express slots. Note: There are actually three x1 PCI Express slots but slot 2 was used for validation purposes. Only slots 0 and 1 are supported. Clocking • CK-410M and CK-SSCD • Battery-backed real time clock Connector Interface Summary • One x16 PCI Express V
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® Mobile Intel 915GME Express Chipset —Getting Started • BIOS recovery jumper • Boot Block protection jumper • Support for Serial, IrDA, serial mouse, and keyboard 2.2 Included Hardware and Documentation The following hardware and documentation is included in the development kit: ® •One Mobile Intel 915GME Express Chipset board ® ® •One Intel Pentium M Processor with 2 MB L2 Cache on 90 nm process in the 478 pin Flip-Chip Pin Grid Array (Micro-FCPGA) package (Installed) • One Firmware Hub (FWH
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® Getting Started—Mobile Intel 915GME Express Chipset ® The following features of AMI* BIOS are enabled in the Mobile Intel 915GME Express Chipset : • DDR2 SDRAM detection, configuration, and initialization ® 915GME Express Chipset configuration • Mobile Intel • POST codes displayed to port 80h • PCI/PCI Express device enumeration and configuration • Integrated video configuration and initialization • Super I/O configuration • CPU microcode update 2.4 Before You Begin Additional hardware may
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® Mobile Intel 915GME Express Chipset —Getting Started Note: Desktop peripherals, including add-in cards, will not work in mobile power mode. If desktop peripherals are used, the platform must be powered using desktop power mode. The AC Brick power supply configuration does not provide the 12 V supply required by most desktop peripherals. Note: Select a power supply that complies with the "ATX12V" 1.1 specification. For more information, refer to http://www.formfactors.org. Note: If the powe
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® Getting Started—Mobile Intel 915GME Express Chipset Connect a PS/2-style or USB mouse and keyboard (see Figure 3 on page 36 for connector locations). Note: J1A1 (on the baseboard) is a stacked PS/2 connector. The bottom connector is for the keyboard and the top is for the mouse. 8. Connect an Ethernet cable (optional). 9. Connect the monitor through the VGA connector. 10. Connect the power supply. Connect an appropriate power supply to the evaluation board. Make sure the power supply is no
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® Mobile Intel 915GME Express Chipset —Theory of Operation 3.0 Theory of Operation 3.1 Block Diagram ® Figure 1 shows the Mobile Intel 915GME Express Chipset block diagram. ® Mobile Intel 915GME Express Chipset Development Kit User’s Manual April 2007 20 Order Number: 317230-001US
