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CHAPT'ER 1
INTRODUCTION
1-1. DESCRIPTION
The Am96/4016 Evaluation Board is a com-
p 1 ete s i ngl e-board mi crocomputer bui 1 t
around the new 16-bit AmZ8000 micropro-
cessor.
Used with a standard CRT or
the low-cost keyboard/display console
available as an option, it provides an
excellent means ,of testing the advanced
capabil ities of this
remar~kably
ver-
sat i 1 e CPU.
Used wi th Advanced Mi cro
Computer's new AmSYS 8/8 Development
System, the entire AmZ8000 instruction
set can be macroassembled to create
very powerful programs for' execut i on on
the Evaluation Board.
The fully assembl ed and tested board
h~s
the following features:
Standard Features
• AmZ8002 CPU (non-segmented)
• 8 kilobytes of dynamic RAM, expand-
able off-board
• Up to 12 kilobytes of ROM or E-PROM,
expandable off-board
• 4-kilobyte ROM Monitor, with break-,
point, single-step and up/down-load
commands
• Buffered CPU busava i 1 ab 1 e at edge
of board
• Two programmable serial
I/O ports
(RS232C and 20mA)
• A programmable counter/timer channel
associated with one serial port
• 24 programmable paral'lel I/O lines
(three 8-bit ports)
• Fits
in
Multibus·
t
or
iSBCt
card
cage
tTrademarks of Intel Corporation
Optional Features
• One-pass Assembler in ROM
• Keyboard/Display console
• CRT termi nal
• Universal prototyping board
• CPU-bus backplane (2 or 3 slots)
• Six-board card cage
• 64-kilobyte memory expansion
• Compl ete AmSYS 8/8 Development Sys...
tern, with di skette storage, i nter-
face utilities and
PASCAL~like
mac-
roassembler for the ArnZ8000 series
Programs can be entered and executed in
either the stand-alone or Development
System confi gurat ion. Speci ali zed ci r-
cuits or external
expan~ion
boards can
a 1 so be attached in ei ther mode.
The
entire CPU bus is buffered and brought
to the edge of the board for intercon-
'nection, as are extra I/O ports for
serial and parallel transfers on the
data bus.
Fi gure 1-1 ill ustrates the board
1
ay-
out.
The lower two edge connectors are
physically compatible with the Multibus
standard, although the PI edge connec-
tor uses only power and ground in the
standard Multibus card cage.
All
four top edge connectors on the
board are used for 110. The P3 connec-
tor has 24 programmable lines divided
into three 8-bit ports for data and
hand shak i ng.', The P4 connector is a
1
so
parallel but designed specifically for
the optional
keyboard/display console
that can be attached to the Evaluation
Board.
The P5 and P6 connectors both
carry programmable lines for asynchro-
nous or synchronous seri a
1
data.
The
P5 connector al so carri es control I/O
for an on-board programmabl e counter/
timer channel.
1-1
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