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Introduction<br />

1.3.4 PCI <strong>Express</strong>* Interface (Intel ®<br />

82<strong>945G</strong>/82<strong>945G</strong>C/82<strong>945P</strong>/82<strong>945P</strong>L (G)MCH Only)<br />

The 82<strong>945G</strong>/82<strong>945G</strong>C/82<strong>945P</strong>/82<strong>945P</strong>L (G)MCH contains one 16-lane (x16) PCI <strong>Express</strong> port<br />

intended for an external PCI <strong>Express</strong> graphics card. The PCI <strong>Express</strong> port is compliant to the PCI<br />

<strong>Express</strong>* Base Specification, Revision 1.0a. The x16 port operates at a frequency of 2.5 Gb/s on<br />

each lane while employing 8b/10b encoding, and supports a maximum theoretical bandwidth of 4<br />

Gb/s each direction. The 82<strong>945G</strong> GMCH multiplexes the PCI <strong>Express</strong> interface with two Intel ®<br />

SDVO ports.<br />

� One, 16-lane PCI <strong>Express</strong> port intended for Graphics Attach, compatible to the PCI <strong>Express</strong>*<br />

Base Specification, Revision 1.0a.<br />

� A base PCI <strong>Express</strong> frequency of 2.5 Gb/s only.<br />

� Raw bit-rate on the data pins of 2.5 Gb/s, resulting in a real bandwidth per pair of 250 MB/s<br />

given the 8b/10b encoding used to transmit data across this interface<br />

� Maximum theoretical realized bandwidth on the interface of 4 GB/s in each direction<br />

simultaneously, for an aggregate of 8 GB/s when x16.<br />

� PCI <strong>Express</strong> extended configuration space. The first 256 bytes of configuration space is<br />

aliased directly to the PCI Compatibility configuration space. The remaining portion of the<br />

fixed 4-KB block of memory-mapped space above the first 256 bytes (starting at 100h) is<br />

known as extended configuration space.<br />

� PCI <strong>Express</strong> Enhanced Addressing Mechanism. This mechanism accesses the device<br />

configuration space in a flat memory mapped fashion.<br />

� Automatic discovery, negotiation, and training of link out of reset<br />

� Supports traditional PCI style traffic (asynchronous snooped, PCI ordering)<br />

� Supports traditional AGP style traffic (asynchronous non-snooped, PCI <strong>Express</strong>-relaxed<br />

ordering)<br />

� Hierarchical PCI-compliant configuration mechanism for downstream devices (i.e., normal<br />

PCI 2.3 Configuration space as a PCI-to-PCI bridge)<br />

� Supports “static” lane numbering reversal. This method of lane reversal is controlled by a<br />

Hardware Reset strap, and reverses both the receivers and transmitters for all lanes<br />

(e.g., TX15->TX0, RX15->RX0). This method is transparent to all external devices and is<br />

different than lane reversal as defined in the PCI <strong>Express</strong> specification. In particular, link<br />

initialization is not affected by static lane reversal.<br />

26 Intel ® 82<strong>945G</strong>/82<strong>945G</strong>Z/82<strong>945G</strong>C GMCH and 82<strong>945P</strong>/82<strong>945P</strong>L MCH Datasheet

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