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MOTOROLA
1 Introduction
The Sandpoint III motherboard, or “SP3” for short, is an evaluation baseboard which accepts one Motorola
Processor PMC (MPMC) or PrPMC card, as well as up to four PCI cards, and supplies typical PC-I/O
peripherals. Sandpoint provides a flexible base for the evaluation of new Motorola processor devices, and
for early software design for customer project using Motorola processors. Figure 1 shows a block diagram
of the Sandpoint III system.
Figure 1. Sandpoint III Block Diagram
Motorola
MPMC
Board
PCI Slots
Winbond
IDE
IDE
SuperIO
KBD
MSE
SPF100
COM1
COM2
PA
R
FL
P
ROM1
ROM2
NV
RM