4 intel® 945gm direct media interface (dmi), 6 intel® ich7m southbridge chipset, 1 intel® ich7m overview – IEI Integration NANO-9452 v1.00 User Manual

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NANO-9452 EPIC Motherboard

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Two SDVO ports supported

o

SDVO is muxed onto the PCIe pins

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DVI 1.0 support for external digital monitor

o

Only Downstream HDCP support

o

Supports TV and DVD formats

o

Display hot plug support

2.5.4 Intel

®

945GM Direct Media Interface (DMI)

Intel

®

945GM northbridge GMCH is connected to the Intel

®

ICH7M Southbridge Chipset

through the chip-to-chip Direct Media Interface (DMI). Features of the Intel

®

945GM DMI

are listed below:

2GB/s (1GB/s in each direction) bus speed

32-bit downstream address

2.6 Intel

®

ICH7M Southbridge Chipset

2.6.1 Intel

®

ICH7M Overview

The Intel

®

ICH7M southbridge chipset is connected to the Intel

®

945GM northbridge

GMCH through the chip-to-chip Direct Media Interface (DMI). Some of the features of the

Intel

®

ICH7M are listed below.

Complies with PCI Express Base Specification, Revision 1.0a

Complies with PCI Local Bus Specification, Revision 2.3 and supports 33MHz

PCI operations

Supports ACPI Power Management Logic

Contains:

o

Enhanced DMA controller

o

Interrupt controller

o

Timer functions

Integrated SATA host controller with DMA operations interfaced to two SATA

connectors on the NANO-9452

Integrated IDE controller supports Ultra ATA 100/66/33

Supports the six USB 2.0 devices on the NANO-9452 with four UHCI

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