System Block Diagram - NEC Advanced Personal Computer System Reference Manual

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Hardware Overview
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LJNIT
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PO\\'ER Sl'PPLY
5 LPiELS
SySTEM CLOCK
(4.9152!\.UIz)
'VIKROPROO.SSOR
(8086)
RAM
nYNAMIC MEMOR\
(pPD4164)
128 KB
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B,I"THRY-SACKED
MEMOR\
(pPD449)
4 KB
Rf<A.D ONLY MUIIORY
(2732)
8 KB
TIMER
(8253)
BATTERY-BACKED
CAU;NDAR
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CLOCK CO"- I ROL
PRO( ESSDR PCB ((;9PFBl)
Figure 1-1 System Block Diagram
• A IS-channel Interrupt System
• Printer and Keyboard Controllers
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4
CHA~NEL
DMA
(8237)
15
CHA~"'EL
INTR
(8259)
PARALLEL BUS
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"RINTER CONTROL
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(8255)
KDnOARD CON'IROL
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I/O
CONTROLLER~
(OPTlO"'iALj
• Calendar-and-Clock Controller, which keeps track of the month, date, day
of week, hour, minute, and second, and runs on battery power when ac
power is off, thus preserving the time/date setting.
The Controller PCB contains as standard equipment:
• CRT Display Control, which can generate 250 predefined characters and
allows you to create and store on disk any number of sets of 256 other
special characters
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NEt SPINWRIHR MODEL 3530
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PRINTER
MODEM OR OTHER
RSB2 ASYNCURO"'Ol S,
SY"CHRO~OL'S.
OR IWSI'\ESS
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