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VIA CN700
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North Bridges South The first chipset to support the VIA C7® processor family, the VIA CN700 is fully optimized to provide an outstanding HD digital media experience. Featuring the high bandwidth V4 bus as well as support for DDR2 memory modules, the VIA CN700 delivers a highly advanced solution for developers interested in designing a wide range of powerful embedded and desktop devices. Featuring the VIA UniChrome™ Pro IGP, the chipset provides exceptional graphics performance with its the Chromotion CE Video Display engine and hardware MPEG-2 acceleration. Together with an advanced 2D/3D graphics core, the VIA CN700 offers exceptional playback and streaming of various digital video formats while maintaining ultra low power consumption and exerting minimal load on the processor. The VIACN700 also provides extensive display support with outputs to CRT, LCD and standard definition TV as well as support for The CN700 features a robust shared memory architecture and support for up to 2 GB of high bandwidth DDR2 533 or DDR400 memory, as well as a high speed V-Link interface for a 533 MB/sec connection to VIA's feature leading South Bridge options. Combined with a VIA VT8237R Plus South Bridge, the VIA CN700 offers a comprehensive range of integrated storage, multimedia and connectivity options, including SATA and V-RAID (with support for RAID 0, RAID 1 and JBOD arrays), USB 2.0, and 10/100 Mbps Fast Ethernet, as well as the Ultra V-Link chipset interconnect with over Host Interface North/South Bridge Link ■ 533 MB/sec 8-bit V-Link host controller supporting V-Map Modular Architecture System Memory ■ Optimized Unified Memory Architecture (UMA) Unified Video Decoding Processor ■ Integrated VIA UniChrome™ Pro Graphics ■ Chromotion CE Video Display engine ■ MPEG-2 video decoding acceleration with VLD, DCTand motion compensation ■ Supports VIA Vinyl Gold 8-channel HD Audio controller & integrated VIA Vinyl 8-channel Display Interface ■ 24-bit flat panel display interface and dual 12-bit flat panel display interface (with VT1636) ■ 12-bit interface to external TV encoder for SDTV and HDTV display (With VT1625) ■ CRT display interface, supporting up to 1920 x Storage Interface ■ Supports up to two SATA devices ■ Supports up to four Parallel ATA 66/100/133 ■ Supports eight USB 2.0 ports ■ Supports enterprise class 10/100 Mbps Fast ■ Supports PCI buses (6 masters) ■ Supports ISA (external support) Power Management ■ Advanced system power management support JifiBk embedded

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CN700+VT8237R Plus Block Diagram LVDS/DVI panel Audio Codec Audio Controller Modem Codec Vinyl Audio * All product specifications are subject to change without notice Update: February 20,2012.

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