TMC MI5VP4, User Manual

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Chapter 3 Hardware Description
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3.1 Processor
The MI5VP4 motherboard is designed to take Socket 7 processors with
system speed of 120MHz to 500MHz at a bus speed of 60MHz to
124MHz. To be able to use the your processor with the motherboard
properly, DIP switches on the motherboard should be configured
correctly. Two DIP switches are available to configure the CPU voltage,
bus speed (front side bus), and bus speed multiplier. Please refer to the
following chapter on how to configure the CPU frequency.
3.2 L2 Cache
The L2 cache is integrated in the processor.
3.3 Main Memory
The MI5VP4 motherboard supports three 168-pin DIMM (Dual In-line
Memory Module) sockets to form a memory configuration from 32MB to
384MB. DIMM modules can be 32MB, 64M and128MB in SDRAM. In
populating the DIMM sockets, any socket can be populated first. Refer to
the following table on how to do the memory configuration.
NOTE: Use SDRAM modules with PC100 specification when running
100MHz CPU bus speed. With 66MHz CPU bus speed, SDRAM
modules with PC66 or PC100 specification can be used.