Chipset capable of supporting video cards of different specifications
AssigneeULi Electronic Inc.
InventorYu-Ji Lu
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Abstract
The present invention provides a chipset comprising a north bridge with a PCI Express interface for coupling to a PCI Express video card and a south bridge with an AGP interface for coupling to an AGP video card, so as to enable the motherboard corresponding to the chipset to support both the AGP video card and the PCI Express video card simultaneously. In addition, the motherboard corresponding to the chipset of the invention can be programmed and controlled by software for achieving the functionalities such as Picture-in-Picture (PIP), video-in-a-window, and the like.
Claims9
A chipset capable of supporting video cards of different specifications, acting as a router and routing I/O traffic among a center processor unit (CPU) and a plurality of peripherals, the chipset comprising:
- a south bridge, acting as an I/O bridge between the CPU and the plural peripherals, having an AGP interface for coupling to an AGP device;
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- a north bridge, coupled between the CPU and the south bridge enabling the traffic from the south bridge to the CPU to be routed therethrough, having a PCI Express interface for coupling to a PCI Express device;
- wherein the PCI Express interface and the AGP interface are respectively connected to the video cards while being used as interfaces of displaying.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.