Endura RADISYS KP915GV - Manual (Page 35)

KP915GV Product Manual
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3 Specifications
3.1 Product Basis
This product based on the Intel® 915GV Express chipset, designed for the Intel® Pentium® 4
processor with Hyper-Threading (HT) Technology in the LGA775 package, and is flexible for
specific customer needs.
3.2 Non-Core Integrated Sub-systems
3.2.1 I/O Controller Hub 6 (ICH6)
The sixth generation I/O Controller Hub (Intel ICH6) component provides data buffering and
interface arbitration required to ensure that system interfaces operate efficiently and provides the
bandwidth necessary to enable the system to obtain peak performance. The ICH6 supports
connection to the MCH via the Direct Media Interface. The ICH6 provides up to 4 PCI Express root
ports, which are compliant to the PCI Express Base Specification revision 1.0a. The ICH6 is
capable of supporting four SATA ports at generation 1 speeds, eight USB2.0 ports, and up to IDE
devices. The ICH6 additionally features an integrated High Definition Audio controller to support
extreme multimedia applications and differentiation through the use of a variety of third party audio
codecs. The ICH6 features on the KP915GV board include:
• Direct Media Interface
• 10Gb/s each direction, full duplex
• Transparent to software
• PCI Express
• 4 PCI Express root ports
• Fully PCI Express 1.0a compliant
• Ports 1-4 can be statically configured as 4x1, or 1x4 (Enterprise applications only)
• Support for full 2.5Gb/s bandwidth in each direction per x1 lane
• PCI Bus Interface
• Supports PCI-X Rev 2.2 Specification at 66 MHz
• Seven available PCI REQ/GNT pairs
• Support for 64-bit addressing on PCI using DAC protocol
• Integrated Serial ATA Host Controllers
• Two ports on board
• Data transfer rates up to 1.5Gb/s (150 MB/s)
• Integrated AHCI controller (ICH6R/ICH6RW 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
• Intel High Definition Audio Interface