What's Inside?
System Board Description
Direct Media Interface (DMI)
Direct Media Interface is the chip-to-chip connection between the
Processor and IO Controller Hub. This high-speed interface integrates
priority based servicing allowing for concurrent traffic and true
isochronous transfer capabilities.
Base functionality completely software-transparent, permitting legacy
software to operate normally. Features:
ICH8M General Features
The ICH8M is part of a family of IO Controllers that encompass home, office
and mobile applications. The ICH8M is targeted for low power mobile
applications and is the only member of the ICH8 family that includes an IDE
port.
The IDE interface is used for the CF Card in Windows Embedded CE 6.0
configurations and CF Recovery for WIN32 applications.
3-16
Increase the Graphics Controller clock speed from 166Mhz to
200Mhz.
Supports two lanes in each direction
100MHz reference clock
2.5Gb/s point-to-point DMI Interface to the ICH8M
Raw bit-rate on the data pins of 2.5Gb/s, resulting in real bandwidth
per pair of 250MB/s including the 8b/10b encoding used to transmit
data across this interface.
Workstation 5A Setup Guide - Fourth Edition
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