Soyo SY-K7VEMPRO User Manual

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Motherboard Description 
SY-K7VEMPRO 
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enhanced PCI bus commands such as Memory-Read-Line, 
Memory-Read-Multiple and Memory-Write-Invalid commands to 
minimize snoop overhead. In addition, advanced features are supported 
such as snoop ahead, snoop filtering, L1 write-back forward to PCI master, 
and L1 write-back merged with PCI post write buffers to minimize PCI 
master read latency and DRAM utilization. Delay transaction and read 
caching mechanisms are also implemented for further improvement of 
over all system performance. 
The 352-pin Ball Grid Array VT82C686B PCI to ISA bridge supports four 
levels (double words) of line buffers, type F DMA transfers and delay 
transaction to allow efficient PCI bus utilization The VT82C686B also 
includes an integrated keyboard controller with PS/2 mouse support, 
integrated DS12885 style real time clock with extended 256 byte CMOS 
RAM, integrated master mode enhanced IDE controller with full scatter/ 
gather capability and extension to UltraDMA-33/66 for 33/66 MB/sec 
transfer rate, integrated USB interface with root Hub and two function 
ports with built-in physical layer transceivers, Distributed DMA supports, 
and On Now/ ACPI compliant advanced configuration and power 
management interface. 
For sophisticated power management, the Via 8361 provides independent 
clock stop control for the CPU/SDRAM, PCI, and AGP buses and 
Dynamic CKE control for powering down of the SDRAM. A separate 
suspend-well plane is implemented for the SDRAM control signals for 
Suspend-to-DRAM operation. Coupled with the VT82C686B south bridge 
chip, a complete power conscious PC motherboard can be implemented 
with no external TTLs. 
The Via 8361 chipset is ideal for high performance, high quality, high 
energy efficient and high integration desktop AGP / PCI computer 
systems. 
 
  VT82C686B 
The VT82C686B PSIPC (PCI Super-I/O integrated Peripheral Controller)