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3 intel® ich7m ide interface, 4 intel® ich7m low pin count (lpc) interface, 5 intel® ich7m pci interface – IEI Integration NANO-9452 v4.01 User Manual

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NANO-9452 EPIC Motherboard

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2.6.3 Intel

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ICH7M IDE Interface

The integrated IDE interface on the ICH7M Southbridge supports two IDE hard disks and

ATAPI devices. PIO IDE transfers up to 16MB/s and Ultra ATA transfers of 100MB/s. The

integrated IDE interface is able to support the following IDE HDDs:

Ultra ATA/33, with data transfer rates up to 33MB/s

Specification

Ultra ATA/33

IDE devices

2

PIO Mode

0 – 4

PIO Max Transfer Rate

16.6 MB/s

DMA/UDMA designation

UDMA 2

DMA/UDMA Max Transfer

33MB/s

Controller Interface

5V

Table 2-3: Supported HDD Specifications

2.6.4 Intel

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ICH7M Low Pin Count (LPC) Interface

The ICH7M LPC interface complies with the LPC 1.1 specifications. The LPC bus from the

ICH7M is connected to the following components:

 BIOS

chipset

 Super I/O chipset

2.6.5 Intel

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ICH7M PCI Interface

The PCI interface on the ICH7M is compliant with the PCI Revision 2.3 implementation.

Some of the features of the PCI interface are listed below.

 PCI Revision 2.3 compliant

 33MHz

 5V tolerant PCI signals (except PME#)

 Integrated PCI arbiter supports up to seven PCI bus masters