Description:

Overview

We are in need of more documentation for this chipset. Most of the information on this chipset is taken from "PCI System Architecture, Third Edition" (MindShare, Inc.; Tom Shanley and Don Anderson; Copyright: 1995, ISBN: 0-201-40993-3). It contains some detailed information about registers and a theory of operation. A snippet is provided in the downloads section.

• It supports 5V and 3.3V Pentium chips, i.e. P5, P54C.
• 1GB Max RAM (two way interleaved)
• Up to 1MB L2 Cache
• Supports dual Intel CPUs
• VL82C591 System Controller
• VL82C593 PCI to ISA Bridge
• 2x VL82C592 Data buffer, triple ported data bridge.

Documented parts

• VLSI VL82C591 (System Controller)
• VLSI VL82C592 (Host to PCI Bridge)
• VLSI VL82C593 (PCI to ISA Bridge)