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The input/output controller hub (82801aa) – HP XU800 User Manual

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2 System Board

The Input/Output Controller Hub (82801AA)

The Input/Output Controller Hub (82801AA)

The ICH, is encapsulated in a 241-pin Ball Grid Array (BGA) package and
is located on the system board just underneath the Memory Expansion
Card Connector. It provides the interface between the PCI bridge (PCI
Rev. 2.2 compliant with support for 32-bit 33 MHz PCI operations),
PCI-to-LPC (Low Pin Count) bridge, IDE controller, USB controller,
SMBus controller and AC’97 controller.

The ICH functions and capabilities are discussed in detail later on in this
section. The following figure shows an example of the system block
diagram using the ICH.

LPC / FWH Link

I840 Memory

Controller Hub

(MCH)

82840-QP

Audio PCI

Chip

(CS4280)

I/O Controller Hub

(ICH) 82801AA

MaxiLife

Monitoring

Chip

Serial

EEPROM

SMB

us

Address (36)
Control
Data (64)

ATA 66, 2 Channels

2 x USB

Controller

LCD

Status

Panel

Parallel and
Serial Ports

Keyboard,

Mouse and

Floppy

Slot 1 - 32-bit/33 MHz

Slot 2- 32-bit/33 MHz

Slot 5 - 32-bit/33 MHz

Host (also called FSB) two-
way Bus 100/133 MHz,

HUB LINK 8

(233 MB/s data

transfer rate)

2 IDE

Connectors

2 USB

Connectors

FirmWare

Hardware

(FWH) 82802

USB

Super I/O

NS 87364

SM Bus

Controller

Fans

PCI Bus (32-bit, 33 MHz)

133 MB/s data transfer rate

Codec

Audio AC‘97

MIDI

Port

AC ‘97

Digital

Link

Intel Pentium III

Processor

with L2 cache memory

I/O Controller Hub

(ICH) 82801AA

PCI Bridge

IDE

Controller

DMA

Controller