Intel® 6300ESB I/O Controller Hub
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November 2007
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Product Features
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8-Bit Hub Interface
— 266 Mbyte/s maximum throughput
— Parallel Termination scheme for longer
trace lengths
— Supports Lower Voltages as per Hub
Interface 1.5 spec
PCI-X Bus I/F
— Supports PCI-X Rev 1.0 Specification at
66 MHz
— Supports PCI Rev 2.2 Specification at 33
MHz
— Support external master devices on PCI
— 4 @ PCI 33 MHz
— 2 @ PCI 64/66 MHz
— 4 @ PCI-X 64/66 MHz (two slots and
two soldered down devices)
— Support for 64-bit addressing on PCI-X
using DAC protocol
PCI Bus I/F
— Supports PCI 32b/33 MHz
— 120 Mbyte/s throughput
— Supports PCI Rev 2.2 Specification at 33
MHz
— Supports 4 external master devices @
33 MHz
— Support for 44-bit addressing on PCI
using DAC protocol.
— 4 slots supported
Integrated IDE Controller
— Supports “Native Mode” Register and
Interrupts
— Supports faster PIO timings for non-
data cycles
— Independent timing of up to four drives,
with separate Primary and Secondary
IDE cable connections
— Supports Ultra 100 DMA Mode Transfers
up to 100 Mbytes/s for reads from disk;
88.88 Mbytes/s for writes to disk, as
well as Ultra66 and Ultra33 DMA modes.
— PIO Mode four transfers up to 14
Mbytes/s
Integrated Serial ATA Host Controllers
— Independent DMA operation on two
ports
— Data transfer rates up to 150 Mbyte/s
— Alternate Device ID and RAID Class
Code option for support of Soft RAID
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Power Management Logic
— ACPI 1.0 compliant
— ACPI-defined power states S1 (Stop
Grant), S3 (STR), S4 (STD), S5 (SOFF)
— ACPI Power Management Timer
— SMI# Generation
— PCI PME#
— Supports THRMTRIP# input,
SYS_RESER# input and SLP_S4#
output
— Support for APM-based legacy power
management for non-ACPI
implementations
External Glue Integration
— Integrated Pull-up, Pull-down and Series
Termination resistors on IDE, CPU I/F
— Integrated Pull-down and Series
resistors on USB
Enhanced Hub I/F buffers improve routing
flexibility (Not available with all Memory
Controller Hubs)
Firmware Hub (FWH) I/F supports BIOS
Memory size up to 8 Mbytes
Low Pin Count (LPC) I/F
— New: No ISA/X-Bus support
— Allows connections of devices such as
Super I/O, microcontrollers, customers
ASICs
— Supports two Master/DMA devices
— Memory size up to 8 Mbytes
Enhanced DMA Controller
— Two cascaded 8237 DMA controllers
— Supports LPC DMA
— Supports DMA Collection Buffer to
provide
Type-F DMA performance for all DMA
channels
Real-Time Clock
— 256-byte battery-backed CMOS RAM
System TCO Reduction Circuits
— Timers to generate SMI# and Reset
upon detection of system hang
— Interrupt capability to OS-specific
manageability extension and OS
capability to call TCO BIOS Timers to
detect improper CPU reset
— Alert On Lan (AOL) to enable heartbeats
and system event reporting via LAN
controller
— Supports CPU BIST
— Supports ability to disable external
devices
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USB
— Includes one EHCI USB2 host
controllers, a total of four ports (shared
with the UHCI ports)
— Two UHCI Host Controllers for a total of
four ports (shared with EHCI ports)
— New: supports a USB 2.0 High-speed
Debug Port
— Supports wake-up from sleeping states
S1-S4
— Supports legacy Keyboard/Mouse
software with USB-based keyboard and
mouse
AC'97 Link for Audio and Telephony
CODECs
— New: Third AC_SDATA_IN Line for three
codec support
— AC’97 2.2 compliant
— New: Independent bus master logic for
8 channels (PCM In/Out, Mic 1 Input,
Mic 2 Input, Modem In/Out, S/PDIF
Out)
— Separate independent PCI functions for
Audio and Modem
— Support for up four to six channels of
PCM audio output (full AC3 decode)
— Support for 20-bit sample
— Support for ACPI device states - D0 and
D3
Interrupt Controller
— Supports up to 12 PCI interrupt pins;
four are not shared
— Two cascaded 82C59 with 15 interrupts
— Supports PCI scheme for delivering
interrupts as write cycles (MSI)
— Integrated I/O APIC capability with 24
interrupts
— Supports Serial Interrupt Protocol
— Supports Front-Side Message Interrupt
Delivery
New: Multimedia Timers based on 82C54
— Includes three timer comparators
— System timer, Refresh request, Speaker
tone output
— One-shot and periodic interrupts
supported
New: Watchdog Timer
— Two-Stage Watchdog with independent
count values for each stage
— First stage generates an INT or SMI
— Second stage drives external pin active
until cleared by a system reset or power
cycle
— Configuration option for write-once
enabling (count values can still change)
— Configurable granularity from 1µs to 10
min
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SMBus
— Flexible SMBus/SMLink architecture to
optimize for ASF and eliminate board
requirements of SMBus 2.0 compliance
— Supports SMBus 2.0 Specification
— Host interface allows CPU to
communicate via SMBus
— Slave interface allows an external
Microcontroller to access system
resources
— Compatible with most 2-wire
components that are also I
2
C
compatible
New: Integrated 16550 compatible UARTs
— Enable/disable per UARTs
— Serial interrupts
— Can disable when external SIO used
New: Port 60/64 Emulation
— Programmable interrupt generation on
writes
— Positive decode to Port 60/64 emulation
registers
GPIO
— Four GPOs capable of directly driving
LEDs
— Two GPOs maintain state during and
after reset
1.5 V operation with 3.3 V I/O. 5 V
tolerance on many buffers, including IDE.
Package 37.5 x 37.5 mm 689 BGA
Process P859.6
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System Block Diagrams
Figure 1.
Workstation/PC Model
CPU
Graphics
AGP
GBE
HL 1.5
Intel
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Memory
1GB to 4 GB
Hublink 1.5
FWH / SIO
LPC
IDE
IDE
Hard Disk
Hard Disk /
CD-DVD
Hard Disk
GBE / SCSI
Legacy Peripherals
PCI-X
PCI
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Hub
SATA
SATA
USB 2.0
SM Bus
GPIO
AC'97
Hard Disk
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