F - North Bridge / Memory Controller
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This graphic displays the north bridge and memory controller chip located near the DIMM slots.This motherboard uses a ServerWorks GC_SL chipset. It consists of the North Bridge (CM1C–SL) and South Bridge (CSB6).

Main Features

  • Supports 100/133–megahertz (MHz) FC–PGA2 Intel® Pentium® 4 processors and Pentium 4–based Celeron™ processors
  • Main memory interface optimized with support of 100/133–MHz DDR synchronous dynamic RAM (SDRAM)
  • 64–bit, 33–MHz primary PCI bus interface (PCI) with integrated PCI arbiter
  • I2C bus support

Memory Controller Features

  • Full support for the Foster Processor bus protocol
  • Full support of double data rate (DDR) memory
  • Full support of error checking and correcting (ECC) on the memory bus
  • Supports 72–bit, 200–MHz memory bus interface to memory sub-system
  • Provides a peak bandwidth of 1.6 gigabytes per second (GBps) on DDR memory bus
  • Twelve deep in–order queue
  • Eight cache–line read buffers
  • Eight cache–line write buffers
  • Four single (1–byte, 8–byte, 16–byte, and 32–byte) write buffers
  • DDR memory commands overlapping
  • Full support of 4–bank registered DDR SDRAM
  • Support for 64–megabit (Mb), 128–Mb, 256–Mb, and 512–Mb devices
  • Asymmetric sized memory and mixed memory support
  • Correction up to a nibble, multiple–bit error detection
  • Memory scrubbing
  • Shadowing of memory between 640K and 1M
  • Memory hole programming
  • Read around write
  • SMRAM support
  • Power Down mode support

1/4 IMBus Interface Features

  • Excess of 800–megabytes per second (MBps) bandwidth (four bits at 400 MHz each direction)
  • Narrow 14–pin interface
  • Four read and four write concurrent requests supported by independent tags in each direction
  • Out of order, barrier, and coherency management supported by request command set
  • Source synchronous interface

Device Features

  • 0.25–um, 2.5–volt (V) COMS high–density gate array
  • Uses analog PLLs for internal 100/200/400–MHz clocks
  • BGA 609 pins