Functional Description
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82801BA ICH2 Datasheet
5.12.2
System Power Planes
The system has several independent power planes, as described in
Table 5-39
. Note that when a
particular power plane is shut off, it should go to a 0V level.
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5.12.3
ICH2 Power Planes
The ICH2 power planes were previously defined in
Section 3.1
.
Although not specific power planes within the ICH2, there are many interface signals that go to
devices that may be powered down. These include:
IDE: ICH2 can tri-state or drive low all IDE output signals and shut off input buffers.
USB: ICH2 can tri-state USB output signals and shut off input buffers if USB wakeup is not
desired
AC’97: ICH2 can drive low the outputs and shut off inputs
5.12.4
SMI#/SCI Generation
Upon any SMI# event taking place, ICH2 asserts SMI# to the processor which causes it to enter
SMM space. SMI# remains active until the EOS bit is set. When the EOS bit is set, SMI# goes
inactive for a minimum of 4 PCICLKs. If another SMI event occurs, SMI# is driven active again.
The SCI is a level-mode interrupt that is typically handled by an ACPI-aware operating system. In
non-APIC systems (the default), the SCI IRQ is routed to one of the 8259 interrupts
(IRQ[9,10, or 11]). The 8259 interrupt controller must be programmed to level mode for that
interrupt.
In systems using the APIC, the SCI can still be routed to IRQ[9, 10, or 11] or it can be instead
routed to one of the APIC interrupts 20:23. In the case where the SCI is routed to
IRQ[20, 21, 22, or 23], the interrupt generated internally is an active low level. The interrupt
remains low until all SCI sources are removed. In the case where the SCI is routed to
IRQ[9, 10, or 11], the interrupt generated internally is active high. The interrupt remains high until
all SCI sources are removed.
Table 5-39. System Power Plane
Plane
Controlled
By
Description
MAIN
SLP_S3#
signal
When SLP_S3# goes active, power can be shut off to any circuit not required
to wake the system from the S3 state. Since the S3 state requires that the
memory context be preserved, power must be retained to the main memory.
The processor, devices on the PCI bus, LPC interface, downstream hub
interface and AGP will typically be shut off when the Main power plane is
shut, although there may be small subsections powered.
MEMORY
SLP_S5#
signal
When the SLP_S5# goes active, power can be shut off to any circuit not
required to wake the system from the S4 or S5 state. Since the memory
context does not need to be preserved in the S5 state, the power to the
memory can also be shut down.
DEVICE[n]
GPIO
Individual subsystems may have their own power plane. For example, GPIO
signals may be used to control the power to disk drives, audio amplifiers, or
the display screen.
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