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Specifications
The Notebook Computer is a state -of-the-art, high performance, portable system. It
offers a host of features specially designed to enhance performance and usability.
l CPU
ü Intel P54C
ü Intel P54LM
ü Intel P55C with MMX technology.
l
Memory
ü 3.3 V power supply.
ü Supports Fast Page Mode/EDO.
ü 512KB secondary cache pipeline burst synchronous SRAM.
ü 8MB expandable up to 128MB.
ü 8/16/32/64MB 144-pin SODIMM RAM modules (option).
l System BIOS
ü 256KB flash ROM.
ü PCI 2.1.
ü Plug and Play 1.0a.
ü 13.3”/14.1” TFT XGA (1024x768 pixels) LCD panel.
ü 4MB display memory.
ü Video Port Manager (VPM) for Zoomed Video (ZV) port.
ü Simultaneous display with an external monitor.
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Input/Output
ü Built -in trackpad (PS/2).
ü Dual USB ports.
ü Serial port.
ü Parallel port.
ü CRT port.
ü Game port.
ü
S-Video port.
ü PS/2 type port.
ü 168-pin expansion port.
ü Headphone jack.
ü Microphone -in jack.
ü Line -in jack.
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l
PC Card Sockets
ü One Type III or two Type II PC cards.
ü CardBus support.
ü One ZV-capabl e socket.
l Mass Storage
ü 2.5” (19mm high or less) or 3.0” (12.5mm high or less) hard disk drive.
ü 3.5” floppy disk drive (interchangeable).
ü 5.25” CD-ROM.
ü 2.5” or 3.0” secondary hard disk drive. (option).
l Infrared Wireless Communication
ü IrDA.
ü ASKIR.
ü FIR.
l Au dio
ü Sound Blaster Pro compatible.
ü 3D stereo sound effects.
ü Built -in microphone.
ü
1MB ROM wavetable.
l Power Management
ü Doze mode.
ü Suspend/Resume.
ü Display idle mode.
ü Hard disk idle mode.
ü APM 1.2.
l Rechargeable battery Pack
ü Ni-MH or Li-Ion available.
ü Battery l ow warning.
ü Auto -switching with AC power adapter.
ü Secondary Battery Pack (option).
l AC Power Supply: Model AC-D01
l Size & Weight
ü 323mm(w)x263.5mm(d)x58mm(h)
ü 323mm(w)x263.5mm(d)x74mm(h) (stand protrusion included)
ü
4.15kg.
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Hex range
Device
000 - 00F
DMA controller-1
020 - 021
Interrupt controller-1
040 - 043
Timer 1
048 - 04B
Timer 2
060 - 06E
KB controller M38813 chip select
070 - 071
RTC and NMI mask
080 - 08F
DMA page register
0A0 - 0A1
Interrupt controller-2
0C0 - 0DF
DMA controller-2
1F0 - 1F7
Fixed disk select
3F6 , 3F7
2F8 - 2FF
Serial port 2
378 - 37A
Parallel port 1
3B4 , 3B5
CRT controller index (mono)
3D4 , 3D5
CRT controller index (color)
3BA
Feature control
3C0 - 3DA
3F2 - 3F7
Floppy disk controller
3F0 , 3F1
Configuration port
3F8 - 3FF
Serial port 1
I/O Address Map
System Memory Map
Address Size Function
000000 - 09FFFF 640KB 640KB Base Memory
0A0000 - 0BFFFF 128KB Video RAM
0C0000 - 0CBFFF 48KB VGA BIOS
0CC000 - 0DFFFF 80KB Reserved
0E0000 - 0EFFFF 64KB Reserved
0F0000 - 0FFFFF 64KB System BIOS for Kernel
100000 - 15MB to
127MB
Extended Memory
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Motherboard
The motherboard is designed mainly based on Pentium CPU and the OPTi FireStar
82C700 chipset; it includes the follo wing features:
* OPTi 82C700 chipset solution from OPTi
* C&T 65554 Multimedia Flat Panel Controller
* PCI Local Bus IDE interface
* SMC669FR super I/O Floppy Disk Controller
* M38813 Keyboard Controller
* Flash EPROM 256KB with AMI system BIOS, VGA BIOS
* DRAM Upgradable to 128MB
* 7 DMA channels
* 13 interrupt levels
* Real Time clock / calendar, battery back up
* Buzzer for sound system
* Built-in 3D Stereo Audio subsystem
* Built-in NTSC/PAL video -out jack
* IrDA infrared communication (Fast IR)
* Port connectors:
- 9 pin serial (COM1)
- 25 pin Parallel Printer Port (LPT1)
- 15 pin external monitor port
- 6 pin external keyboard port
- 168 pin Expansion Port for Docking Station
- 8 pin USB Port
- 15 pin Game Port
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Microprocessor
P54C Pentium-100 Microprocessor
The Intel Pentium Microprocessor is a 64 -bit architecture with on chip Memory
Management Unit (MMU), floating point (math coprocessor) and cache memory (16K
bytes, code and data caches each contain 8 Kbytes of information) uni ts. It has the
same functions of the Pentium-75 CPU, but provides greatly enhanced performance.
Feature includes:
- Superscalar architecture
- Separate code and data caches
- Branch prediction
- High performance floating point unit
- Enhanced 64 bits data bus
- Data integrity features
- SL technology power management features
- Multiprocessing support
- Performance monitoring
- Memory page size feature
P54XX Pentium-120/133/150/166/200 Microprocessor
The Intel Pentium-120/133/150/166/200 CPU is the same as Pentium-75 with
different running speed.
P55C-133/166/200 Microprocessor
The Intel P55C-133/166/200 Processor is more accurate and aggressive than the
P54C processor and the P55C CPU has built in MMX (MultiMedia eXtension enab le)
Technology Architecture.
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Chips
Core Logic Chip - OPTi FireStar 82C700
l Support for Intel 586 CPU with bus speed up to 66MHz
l Support for both symmetric and asymmetric type DRAM
l High Performance Memory Controller
l
Enhanced hidden refresh
l
Support for Fast Page mode, EDO type.
l Supports two bus mastering IDE channels
l Serial IRQs supported
l Synchronous SRAM Clock Control to reduce Power Consumption
l Stop Grant, Stop Clock for 1X clock scaling
l PCI local bus support
l
Flash EPROM support
l Screen activity detect
l Pro grammable suspend and resume
l Automatic suspend timer
l System activities and programmable clock speed control
l Programmable system event
l Programmable stop break event
l
Intel SL compatible shadow registers
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VGA Controller - C&T 65554
l Supports displays wit h options for 1, 1.5, 2 and 4 MB
l Supports burst PCI and EDO/FPM.
l Supports 16 bit color DSTNs up to 1024x768x64K color, and TFT panels up to
1280x768x16M color.
l Supports non-interlaced 1280x1024x64K, 1024x768x16M, 800x600x16M, and
640x480x16M color on C RT
l Simultaneous display on flat panel and CRT.
l Internal buffer provides flicker reduction
l RGB signals driven from the C&T 65554 LUT/DAC can directly interface with a
standard off-the-shelf NTSC/PAL encoder. Composite synchronization signals
l Support the encoder for standard home TV connection.
l Graphic functions optimized by a 64 bit internal data bus and a four-color
hardware cursor/pop-up icon operation up to 128x128x2 pixel image
l Provides flexible and extensive power management capabilities and supports
fo ur states of VESA Display Power Management Signaling
l Video Modes supported as below:
Panel # Panel Type
1 1024x768 dual scan color STN
2 1280x1024 color TFT
3 640x480 dual scan color
4 800x600 dual scan color
5 640x480 SHARP color TFT
6 640x480 18 -bit color TFT
7 1024x768 color TFT
8 800x600 color TFT
9 800x600 color TFT (44K BIOS only)
10 800x600 color TFT (44K BIOS only)
11 800x600 dual scan color (44K BIOS only)
12 800x600 dual scan color (44 K BIOS only)
13 1024x768 TFT color (44K BIOS only)
14 1024x768 TFT color (44K BIOS only)
15 Reserved
16 Reserved
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PC CARD 95 (CardBus) Interface Controller - TI PCI1131
TI CardBus Interface Controller 1131 implements the
PCMCIA 2.0/JEIDA 4.1 standard. It contains the following functions:
l PCI int erface Specification 2.1
l
Supports Zoom Video Mode
l PCMCIA dual -socket interface
l Five programmable memory windows per socket
l Two I/O windows per socket
l ATA disk interface support
l Programmable Suspend mode
l
Automatic flash memory timing support
l ExCA -compatible
ZV Port Custom Interface
The ZV (Zoomed Video) Port is a single source, point -to-point uni-directional video
bus between a PC Card socket and a VGA controller. The ZV Port complies with
CCIR601 timing to allow NTSC decoders to deliver real -time digital video straight
into the VGA frame buffer from a PC Card. The ZV Port also allows an industry
standard mechanism for transferring digital audio PCM data to a low cost DAC for
conversion to an analog signal.
In this notebook, only the bottom PC Card slo t is ZV capable.
L2 Cache Size
Cache Size Data RAM Tag RAM Cacheable Size (8 -bits tag)
l Intelligent Auto Power Management
l 16 Bit Address Qualification (Optional)
l 2.88MB Super I/O Floppy Disk Controller
ü
Support Vertical Recording Format
ü 16 Byte Data FIFO
ü Enhanced Digital Data Separator. Data rate up to 1Mb/s.
l Multi-Mode Parallel Port with ChiProtect Circuitry
ü Standard Mode
IBM PC/AT and PS/2 compatible bi-directional Parallel port.
ü Enhanced Mode
Enhanced Parallel Port (EPP) Compatible
ü High Speed Mode
Microsoft and Hewlett Packard Extended Capabilities Port (ECP)
Compatible
l Serial Port
ü Two high speed NS16C550 compatible UARTs with Send/Receive 16
Byte FIFOs
ü Programmable Baud Rate Generator
ü Supports 230K and 460K Baud
ü Modem Control Circuitry
ü Infrared IrDA, HPSIR, ASKIR support
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AIT1108E VGA to NTSC/PAL Converter
l Converts VGA source analog RGB into broadcast-quality NTSC or PAL video
signal.
l Multiple output standards - NTSC, PAL.
l
S-Video output format.
Real PCI To USB (OHCI) Chip - CMD0670
l Complies with OpenHCI 1.0,USB 1.0,and PCI Local Bus 2.1 specifications.
l Bridges PCI bus and the Universal Serial Bus (USB).
l
USB device bandwidth of up to 12 Mb/s.
l Full support of real time dynamic inser tion and removal of devices.
l 32-bit PCI local bus interface.
l PCI Bus Master.
l Supports up to 127 devices (concurrent operation).
l Supports all USB -compliant peripherals (e.g. keyboard, mouse, monitor,
telephone, joystick, etc)
l
Supports legacy keyboards a nd mouse devices.
Keyboard Controller - Mitsubishi M38813M4
l Timers :8 bit prescaler X 2 + 8 bit timer X 3
l
Comparator :4 bit X 8 channels
l
Bus interface :2 bytes
l Key on wake-up :8 channels
l Interrupts :8 external,7 internal,and 1 software
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ESS ES1879 High Quality Audio Chip
l Single,mixed-signal,16-bit stereo VLSI chip for digital audio
l High -quality,20 -voice ESFM music synthesizer patents pending
l Supports ES978 Expansion audio Mixer chip
l
Full Plug and Play (PnP)
ES690 Wavetable Synthesizer
l Wavetable music sy nthesizer.
l
Playback of 16 -bit data at 44.1 KHz via the ES1xxx DAC.
l MIDI serial port compatible with MPU-401 serial port of ES1xxx.
l Glueless interface with the external wavetable ROM.
ES981 Wavetable ROM
l 16 -bit CMOS wavetable mask ROM.
l 150 ns access time.
l Total static operation.
l Single +5V power supply requirement.
ES938 3-D Audio Effects Processor
l Provides Spatilizer 3-D stereo sound effects.
l Expands the sound stage of stereo and mono audio material for a fuller sound
The Notebook PC has a standard PC/AT interface (IDE) which can directly interface
with any hard disk drive with an embedded controller supporting the same PC/AT
interface through the use of a 56-pin B/B connector. The 56-pin connector has the
following pin configurations:
The Notebook PC has one RS-232C serial port which enables users to connect a
serial printer, a serial mouse, a plotter, a modem, etc. The key features of the serial
port are listed as follows:
ü
IBM PC/AT compatible
ü compatible with NS16C550
ü Individual modem control/signals for each channel
ü Programmable serial interface characteristics :
* 5-, 6-, 7-, or 8-bit characters
* Even, odd, or no parity bit generation and de tection
* 1, 1 1/2 or 2 stop bit generation
* Tri-state TTL drives capabilities for bi -directional data bus and
control bus.
The RS-232C serial port uses a 9-pin D-sub male connector which has the following
pin configurations: