System Board Devices and Features

System Board Devices and Features

Figure 1-2

lists the

system

board devices and their features. The

IBM Personal System/2 Hardware Interface Technical Reference

describes

devices

common to

PS/2 products by type number.

 

 

 

 

 

Device

Type

Features

 

 

 

 

 

 

Microprocessor

Intel Pentium processor with the MMX

 

 

technology

 

 

Ÿ 200 or 233 MHz

Ÿ32 KB on-chip cache

External

cache

512

KB

(write

back)

 

 

 

System

timers

1

Channel

0: system

timer

 

 

 

 

 

 

Channel

1: refresh

generation

 

 

 

 

 

Channel

2: tone generator for speaker

ROM

subsystem

128

KB

by

4

 

banks

(1

KB

equals 1024 bytes)

RAM

subsystem

32

to

256

MB

(1

MB

equals

1,048,576 bytes)

CMOS

RAM

 

128 bytes CMOS RAM with real-time

 

subsystem

 

clock/calendar+

4

K

byte

NVRAM

EEPROM

 

1

K bits

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

subsystem

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Video

subsystem

XGA

video

functions:

 

 

 

ŸUp to 65,536 colors on the TFT XGA (1024x768) LCD

ŸUp to 16,777,216 colors on an external monitor

See “Video Subsystem” on page 3-2 for more details on the video subsystem.

DMA controller

1

Seven

DMA

channels

(AT compatible:)

 

 

Four

8-bit

channels

and three 16-bit channels

Figure 1-2 (Part 1 of 2). System Board Devices and Features

System Overview 1-3

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IBM 770 System Board Devices and Features, IBM Personal System/2 Hardware Interface Technical Reference, lists the, system