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Chipset

(North Bridge and South Bridge)

Dr Naveen Kumar
Chipset

• Chipset is combinations of two important


ICs of the motherboard (South Bridge
and North Bridge)

Dr Naveen Kumar
Chipset Connectivity

Dr Naveen Kumar
It is in the north section of the motherboard
and usually located near to the CPU.

North This is also called host bridge.

Bridge
Unlike South Bridge it is directly connected
with CPU, RAM, PCI and AGP slots (internal
communications). Therefore, it acts as a
bridge between CPU and RAM, PCI and AGP.

Dr Naveen Kumar
North Bridge

When the CPU needs data


from RAM, a request is sent
to the northbridge memory
controller. After the request
has been received, it
Today, the northbridge is a responds with how long the
Northbridge is usually
single-chip that is North of processor need to wait to
slightly larger than the
the PCI bus, however, early read the memory over the
southbridge and is the
computers may have up to front side bus (FSB).
closest to the CPU and
three separate chips that
memory. Some newer
made up the northbridge.
motherboards have
replaced the northbridge
and the southbridge with
IHA (Intel Hub
Architecture).

Dr Naveen Kumar
The southbridge is an IC on the motherboard
responsible for the hard drive controller, I/O
controller and integrated hardware. Integrated
hardware can include the sound card and
video card if on the motherboard, USB, PCI,
South ISA, IDE, BIOS, and Ethernet.

Bridge Although the southbridge handles most of the


I/O devices, less prominent input/output
devices, such as a serial port, keyboard, and
non-USB mouse are handled by the super
input/output (SIO).

Dr Naveen Kumar
South Bridge
• Some newer chipsets are
combining the Southbridge and
Super I/O chips into a single
chip and referring to this chip as
the Super Southbridge chip.
• Some manufacturers such as
NVIDIA and SiS have even
combined the Northbridge,
Southbridge, and Super I/O into
a single chip.

Dr Naveen Kumar
Comparison
North Bridge South Bridge
It is in the North section of the motherboard It is in the South section of the motherboard

Directly connected to the CPU Communicates with CPU via North Bridge
Connects RAM, AGP and CPU Connects BIOS, PCI, IO and EIDE and USB
It communicates faster Slow in comparison to North Bridge
It manages the communication between CPU It manages the input and output functions
and other parts of the motherboard
Other names for North bridge include Memory IO Controller Hub is the other name for South
Controller Hub, host bridge bridge
It is bigger in size It is smaller in size

Dr Naveen Kumar

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