Southbridge Chip Sets Vaidated For PCI Express Operation

The SiS965, SiS965L, SiS966, and SiS966L Southbridge chip sets have passed recent PCI Express compatibility validation. Performed by Silicon Integrated Systems in conjunction with fabless IC company JMicron, the validation tests yielded fully satisfactor

Dave Bursky

Sept. 1, 2005

The four SiS Southbridge chip sets are compatible with Intel-based and AMD-based platforms. They operate with front-side bus speeds of up to 533 MHz. All of the sets include X1/2 PCI Express lanes. Also, they support two or four Serial ATA (SATA) 150 ports and two or four SATA AHCI ports.

These chip sets include most other Southbridge functions, like AC'97 audio, USB 2.0 ports, PCI parallel support, RAID support, and 10/100 or 10/100/1000 Ethernet local-area network ports. Samples are immediately available. Contact the company for volume pricing.

Silicon Integrated Systems Corp.
www.sis.com

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Dave Bursky

Technologist

Dave Bursky, the founder of New Ideas in Communications, a publication website featuring the blog column Chipnastics – the Art and Science of Chip Design. He is also president of PRN Engineering, a technical writing and market consulting company. Prior to these organizations, he spent about a dozen years as a contributing editor to Chip Design magazine. Concurrent with Chip Design, he was also the technical editorial manager at Maxim Integrated Products, and prior to Maxim, Dave spent over 35 years working as an engineer for the U.S. Army Electronics Command and an editor with Electronic Design Magazine.