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Design Guide - VT82C694X Apollo Pro133 with VT82C686A
Preliminary Revision 0.5, November 19, 1999 8 Motherboard Design Guidelines
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2.1.2 "Super South" South Bridge Ballout Assignment
Ballout of the VIA "Super South" South Bridge is designed to minimize the number of crossover signals. Similarly to Figure 2-1,
the major signal group quadrants are shown in Figure 2-2. They are PCI, ISA, Hardware Monitoring, IDE1, IDE2 (shared with
Audio/Game), Super IO (including FDC, COM, LPT, and Infrared interface (not shown) ), USB, Keyboard & Mouse, and a group
of Power Control, GPIO & Reset. Please refer to the VT82C686A datasheet for more details on these ball assignments.
ISA
352-PIN BGA
SUPER SOUTH
VT82C686A
USB
Keyboard
& Mouse
FDC COM LPT
PCI
IDE1
IDE2
(Audio/Game)
Hardware
Monitoring
Power Control,
GPIO & Reset
1
A
(Top View)
Figure 2-2. Major Signal Group Distributions of "Super South" South Bridge Ballout (Top View)
Package Information:
• The VIA VT82C694X Apollo Pro133A North Bridge is a 510-pin Ball Grid Array (BGA) package. The package size is
35mm x 35mm and the grid matrix is 26x26.
• The VIA "Super South" South Bridge (VT82C686A) is a 352-pin BGA package. The package size is 27mm x 27mm and
the grid matrix is 20x20.