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Intel Chipset Programming

Does anyone know how to get start with writing a program to access, say, an intel memory controller hub, such as the intel 5400 mch or the intel p45 mch? Do I need Intel's Parallel Composer studio to get started? Can I simply get started with…
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What is the difference between CPU and Chipset?

I'm confused with the terms Chipset and CPU.I researched about this but did not get satisfactory answer anywhere. Could anyone please clarify what is the difference between the two in the context of android smartphone?. Thanks.
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Can the A20 line still be masked off on Haswell and successors?

Wikipedia quotes this statement from Intel's manual The functionality of A20M# is used primarily by older operating systems and not used by modern operating systems. On newer Intel 64 processors, A20M# may be absent. It is a phrase that it is…
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Detected BIOS data in system (Delphi)

How detected name of modern chipsets in system (Delphi)
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What is the difference between "soft reset" and "hard reset" in embedded field?

In my opinion: soft reset: boots from the reset vector. hard reset: pull the electrical level of the cpu.
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How to read a byte of the Serial Presence Detect (SPD) data from the DIMM after 255(FF) bytes?

I have got SMBus Base Address Register, and program the SMBus Transmit Slave Address Register with the DIMM SMBus address, SMBBASE 04h. Then program the SMBus Host Command Register with the DIMM’s SPD data offset to be read, SMBBASE 03h. But the…
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What exactly is a GPU binning pass

As I'm reading VideoCoreIV-AG100-R spec of BCM vc4 chip, there is a paragraph talking about: All rendering by the 3D system is in tiles, requiring separate binning and rendering passes to render a frame. In normal operation the host processor…
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Nexus 5 Wireless driver for BCM4339

I want to work on Access Point (AP) and Power Saving Mode (PSM) behaviour with a Nexus 5, which has a BCM4339 wireless chipset. Currently, there are 4 drivers (1 experimental) available for Broadcom chipsets: broadcom-iw (proprietary). Firmware,…
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determine if chipset is capable off packet injection and monitor mode

and I want to know if my chipset is capable off doing those things My chipset is a intel centrino advanced 6200-n on a sony vayo laptop running on windows 7. Now, I know that windows is only capable off listening, so I boot backtrack 4 from a usb…
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How can I determine the chipset of the computer that my program is running on using C#

I need my code to behave differently dependent on the chipset of the computer it is running on. How can I determine this using C#. Specifically Intel 945 vs 965.
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Determine Rank and Channel Bits in Haswell Physical Address Space

I have an Intel(R) Core(TM) i7-4720HQ CPU @ 2.60GHz (Haswell). The chipset datasheets include Datasheet, volume 1 (M- and H-processor lines) and Datasheet, volume 2 (M- and H-processor lines). The physical address mapping is as follows: I want to…
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Cannot build RTL8192EU driver on Kali Linux for TP-Link WN821N

I cannot build RTL8192EU driver on Kali Linux 5.2 for TP-Link WN821N. After running make in cd rtl8192eu-linux-driver (downloaded from https://github.com/jeremyb31/rtl8192eu-linux-driver): # sudo apt update Hit:1 http://kali.download/kali…
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What would the BIOS update for 100 series chipsets for kaby lake actually do?

I was reading that in order for kaby lake to be supported on 100 series chipsets, a BIOS update is required. http://www.tomshardware.co.uk/answers/id-3371914/kaby-lake-chipsets.html Wikichip also displays that Sunrise Point is still supported but…
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What is a high performance way of splitting up Sprite Sheets/ Chip Sets in JS?

I'm working on a 2d world editor for html/js, and trying to find the best way to split up a chip set (as seen below) into multiple little squares (chips). Currently, I'm using a method similar to the default css sprite sheets method, of using…
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How to find out the NFC stack(chip) "NXP vs Broadcom" on Android devices

Is there a way to figure out the NFC stack (or chipset) on the Android device? I am creating an app with a custom implementation for NfcV class (ISO15693 tags). Turns out on older devices like Nexus S, Galaxy S2, Nexus 7 the NFC chipset is from NXP…
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