About This Document; Content Overview; Text Conventions; Table 1. Text Conventions - Intel 6 Series User Manual

About This Document

1 About This Document
This guide describes the use of the 2
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Intel 6 Series Chipset Development Kit. The document has been written for OEMs,
system evaluators, and embedded system developers, and assumes basic familiarity
in the fundamental concepts involved with installing and configuring hardware for a
personal computer system. The document defines all jumpers, headers, LED functions,
their locations on the development kit, and other subsystem features and POST codes.
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Content Overview

This manual is arranged into the following sections:
About This Document
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The last few sections explain how to obtain literature and contact customer
support.
Getting Started
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basics steps necessary to get the board running. This section also includes
information on how to update the BIOS.
Development Kit Features
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development board. It explains the Power Management and Testability features.
Development Board Summary
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connectors. It gives a description of jumper settings and functions. The section
also explains the use of the programming headers.
• Add-In Cards
used with the development board.
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Text Conventions

The notations listed in

Table 1. Text Conventions

Notation
#
Variables
Instructions
March 2011
Document Number: 325208-001
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6 Series Chipset development board design collateral, please visit the
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contains a description of conventions used in this document.
describes the contents of the development kit and explains the
describes details on the hardware features of the
contains information on add-in cards available from Intel that can be
Table 1 may be used throughout this document.
The pound symbol (#) appended to a signal name indicates that the signal
is active low (e.g., PRSNT1#).
Variables are shown in italics. Variables must be replaced with correct
values.
Instruction mnemonics are shown in uppercase. When you are
programming, instructions are not case-sensitive. You may use either
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