Understand the role of master chip in use

The main control chip of the motherboard is generally the north bridge. The south bridge chip is responsible for the communication between the I / O buses, such as PCI bus, USB, LAN, ATA, SATA, audio controller, keyboard controller, real-time clock controller, advanced power management, etc. the north bridge chip is responsible for the connection with the CPU and controlling the memory. The north bridge is an important part of the motherboard chipset, which plays a leading role The name of the chipset is named after the name of the north bridge chip. For example, the north bridge chip of Intel GM45 chipset is G45 and the north bridge chip of X58 series supporting Core i7 processor.

The main control chip is the core component of the motherboard or hard disk. It is the bridge between various devices and the brain that controls the operation of the devices. In the motherboard, two chips are important. One is Nanqiao chip, which controls the expansion slot, USB interface, serial port, parallel port, 1394 interface, VGA interface, etc. it is mainly responsible for the connection between external interface and internal CPU. The other is Beiqiao chip, which controls the type and model of CPU, bus frequency of motherboard, memory type, capacity, graphics card, etc.

1. Load and run the operating system (commonly known as firmware);

2. Decode all kinds of files, such as txt files, picture files, music files and so on;

3. The most important thing is audio decoding. The main control chip decompresses the compressed audio in the player. This belongs to hardware decompression.

In addition, there is something called DAC, namely digital to analog converter, which converts the digital signal decompressed in the third point above into analog signal. Many MP3 player's DAC is not independent, but embedded into the main control chip. When we buy, we buy those products that make audio DAC independent, such as Meizu's M6 and M3.