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7 amd® geode™ cs5536 real time clock, 8 bios, 6 geodelink™ pci bridge – IEI Integration NANO-LX v1.10 User Manual

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NANO-LX EPIC SBC

2.5.7 AMD

®

Geode™ CS5536 Real Time Clock

The system chipset has a battery backed up 256-byte real-time clock (RTC) with CMOS

RAM.

2.5.8 BIOS

The BIOS flash memory chip on the NANO-LX has a licensed copy of AWARD BIOS

loaded onto it. The BIOS flash memory chip is connected to the chipset via the LPC bus.

The flash BIOS features are listed below:

SMIBIOS (DMI) compliant

Console redirection function support

PXE (Pre-Boot Execution Environment) support

USB booting support

2.6 GeodeLink™ PCI Bridge

2.6.1 Overview

The GeodeLink™ PCI Bridge (GLPCI) module provides a PCI interface for GeodeLink

Interface Unit-based designs. The GLPCI module is composed of six major blocks:

GeodeLink Interface

FIFO/Synchronization

Transaction Forwarding

PCI Bus Interface

PCI Arbiter

The GeodeLink and PCI Bus Interface blocks provide adaptation to the respective buses.

The Transaction Forwarding block provides bridging logic. Some of the features of the

GeodeLink™ PCI Bridge are listed below:

PCI Version 2.2 compliance

32-bit, 66 MHz PCI bus operation

Target support for fast back-to-back transactions

Arbiter support for three external PCI bus masters

Write gathering and write posting for in-bound write requests

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