southbridge

<architecture> The integrated circuit in a core logic chip set that controls the IDE bus, USB, plug-n-play support, the PCI-ISA bridge, keyboard/mouse controller, power management, and various other features. One brand provides sound card functions.

Other functions are provided by the northbridge chip.

http://maximumpc.com/terminator/terminator_s.html.

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source package « source route « source routing « southbridge » SP » SP2 » SP/2