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Features
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100% compatibility with PnP requirements specified in
the “
Plug and Play ISA Specification
”, PC97, ISA, EISA,
and MicroChannel architectures
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A special PnP module that includes:
— Flexible IRQs, DMAs and base addresses that meet
the PnP requirements specified by Microsoft
®
in
their 1995 hardware design guide for Windows
®
and
PnP ISA Revision 1.0A
— PnP ISA mode (with isolation mechanism – Wait for
Key state Motherboard PnP mode
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A Floppy Disk Controller (FDC) that provides:
— A relocatable address that is referenced by an 11-bit
programmable register
— Software compatibility with the PC8477, which con-
tains a superset of the floppy disk controller functions in the µDP8473, the NEC µPD765A and the
N82077
— 7 IRQ channel options
— Three 8-bit DMA channel options
— 16-byte FIFO
— Burst and non-burst modes
— A new high-performance, on-chip, digital data sepa-
rator that does not require any external filter components
— Support for standard 5.25" and 3.5" floppy disk
drives
— Perpendicular recording drive support
— Three-mode Floppy Disk Drive (FDD) support
— Full suppor t for the IBM Tape Drive Register (TDR)
implementation of AT and PS/2 drive types
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A Keyboard and mouse Controller (KBC) with:
— A relocatable address that is referenced by an 11-bit
programmable register, reported as a fixed address
in resource data
— 7 IRQ options for the keyboard controller
— 7 IRQ options for the mouse controller
— An 8-bit microcontroller
— Software compatibility with the 8042AH and
PC87911 microcontrollers
— 2 KB of custom-designed program ROM
— 256 bytes of RAM for data
— Three programmable dedicated open drain I/O lines
for keyboard controller applications
— Asynchronous access to two data registers and one
status register during normal operation
— Support for both interrupt and polling
— 93 instructions
— An 8-bit timer/counter
— Support for binary and BCD arithmetic
— Operation at 8 MHz,12 MHz or 16 MHz (programma-
ble option)
— Customizing by using the PC87323VUL, which in-
cludes a RAM-based KBC, as a development platform for keyboard controller code for the PC87309
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Two UARTs that provide:
— Software compatibility with the 16550A and the 16450
— A relocatable address that is referenced by an 11-bit
programmable register
— 7 IRQ channel options
— Shadow register support for write-only bit monitoring
— UART data rates up to 1.5 Mbaud
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An enhanced UART and Infrared (IR) interface on the
UART2 that supports:
— HP-SIR
— ASK-IR option of SHARP-IR
— DASK-IR option of SHARP-IR
— Consumer Remote Control circuitry
— A PnP compatible external transceiver
— Three 8-bit DMA options for the UART with Slow In-
frared support (UART2)
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A bidirectional parallel port that includes:
— A relocatable address that is referenced by an 11-bit
programmable register
— Software or hardware control
— 7 IRQ channel options
— Three 8-bit DMA channel options
— Demand mode DMA support
— An Enhanced Parallel Port (EPP) that is compatible
with the new version EPP 1.9, and is IEEE 1284
compliant
— An Enhanced Parallel Port (EPP) that also supports
version EPP 1.7 of the Xircom specification.
— Support for an Enhanced Parallel Port (EPP) as
mode 4 of the Extended Capabilities Port (ECP)
— An Extended Capabilities Port (ECP) that is IEEE
1284 compliant, including level 2
— Selection of internal pull-up or pull-down resistor for
Paper End (PE) pin
— Reduction of PCI bus utilization by supporting a de-
mand DMA mode mechanism and a DMA fairness
mechanism
— A protection circuit that prevents damage to the par-
allel port when a printer connected to it powers up or
is operated at high voltages
— Output buffers that can sink and source 14 mA
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Enhanced Power Management (PM), including:
— Reduced current leakage from pins
— Low-power CMOS technology
— Ability to shut off clocks to all modules
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Clock source:
— Source is a 48 MHz clock input signal.
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General features include:
— Access to all configuration registers is through an In-
dex and a Data register, which can be relocated
within the ISA I/O address space
— 100-pin Plastic Quad Flatpack (PQFP) package