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Dell™ PowerEdge™ M710 Technical Guidebook

sectiOn 7. chiPset

a. Overview / Description

The PowerEdge M710 planar incorporated the Intel 5520 chipset (code named Tylersburg) for I/O and

processor interfacing. Tylersburg is designed to support Intel's 5500 series processors (code named

Nehalem-EP), QPI interconnect, DDR3 memory technology, and PCI Express Generation 2. The

Tylersburg chipset consists of the Tylersburg-36D IOH and ICH9.

The planar uses the The Intel

5520 chipset (code named Tylersburg) I/O Hub (IOH)-36D IOH to provide

a link between the 5500 series 2S processor (Nehalem EP) and I/O components. The main components

of the IOH consist of two full-width QuickPath Interconnect links (one to each processor), 36 lanes of

PCI Express Gen2, a x4 Direct Media Interface (DMI), and an integrated IOxAPIC.

The QuickPath Architecture consists of serial point-to-point interconnects for the processors and the

IOH. The PowerEdge M710 has a total of three QuickPath Interconnect (QPI) links: one link connecting

the processors and links connecting both processors with the IOH. Each link consists of 20 lanes

(full-width) in each direction with a link speed of up to 6.4 GT/s. An additional lane is reserved for a

forwarded clock. Data is sent over the QPI links as packets.

The QuickPath Architecture implemented in the IOH and CPUs features four layers. The Physical layer

consists of the actual connection between components. It supports Polarity Inversion and Lane Reversal

for optimizing component placement and routing. The Link layer is responsible for flow control and the

reliable transmission of data. The Routing layer is responsible for the routing of QPI data packets. Finally,

the Protocol layer is responsible for high-level protocol communications, including the implementation of

a MESIF (Modify, Exclusive, Shared, Invalid, Forward) cache coherence protocol.

The DMI (previously called the Enterprise Southbridge Interface) connects the Tylersburg IOH with the