IEI Technology KINO-690AM2, User Manual

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KINO-690AM2 Mini-ITX Motherboard
2.5 AMD SB600 Southbridge Chipset
2.5.1 CPU Interface
The AMD SB600 Southbridge chipset supports the following AMD Socket AM2
processors:
AMD Athlon™ 64 X2 dual-core processor
AMD Athlon™ 64 processor
AMD Sempron™ processor
2.5.2 A-Link Xpress II interface to the Northbridge
The AMD SB600 Southbridge is connected to the AMD 690G Northbridge chipset through
an A-Link Xpress II interface. Some of the A-Link Xpress II interface features are listed
below:
1/2/4-lane A-Link Xpress II interface
Dynamic detection of lane configuration
High data transfer bandwidth
2.5.3 PCI Host Bus Controller
The PCI interface on the AMD SB600 Southbridge is compliant with the PCI Revision 2.3
implementation. Some of the features of the PCI interface are listed below.
PCI rev. 2.3 specifications
PCI bus at 33 MHz
40-bit addressing
Interrupt steering for plug-n-play devices
Concurrent PCI operations
Hiding of PCI devices by BIOS/hardware
The PCI bus is interfaced to a PCI expansion slot (see Figure 2-7 ).
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