Acer TM7300 Laptop User Manual


 
2-48 Service Guide
2.6 NS97338VJG Super I/O Controller
The PC97338VJG is a single chip solution for most commonly used I/O peripherals in ISA, and EISA
based computers. It incorporates a Floppy Disk Controller(FDC), two full featured UARTs, and an
IEEE 1284 compatible parallel port Standard PC-AT address decoding for all the peripherals and a
set of configuration registers are also implemented in this highly integrated member of the Super l/O
family. Advanced power management features, mixed voltage operation and integrated Serial-
lnfrared(both IrDA and Sharp) support makes the PC97338 an ideal choice for low-power and/or
portable personal computer applications.
The PC97338 FDC uses a high performance digital data separator eliminating the need for any
external filter components. It is fully compatible with the PC8477 and incorporates a superset of
DP8473, NEC PD765 and N82077 floppy disk controller functions. All popular 5.25” and 3.5” floppy
drives, including the 2.88 MB 3.5” floppy drive, are supported. In addition, automatic media sense
and 2 Mbps tape drive support are provided by the FDC.
The two UARTs are fully NS16450 and NS16550 compatible. Both ports support MIDI baud rates
and one port also supports IrDA 1.0 SIR(with data rate of 115.2Kbps), IrDA 1.1 MIR and FIR(with
data rate of 1.152Mbps and 4.0Mbps respectively) , and Sharp SIR(with data rate of 38.4Kbps
respectively) compliant signaling protocol.
The parallel port is fully IEEE 1284 level 2 compatible. The SPP(Standard Parallel Port) is fully
compatible wit ISA and EISA parallel ports. In addition to the SPP, EPP(Enhanced Parallel Port) and
ECP(Extended Capabilities Port) modes are supported by the parallel port.
A set of configuration registers are provided to control the Plug and Play and other various functions
of the PC97338. These registers are accessed using two 8-bit wide index and data registers. The
ISA I/O address of the register pair can be relocated using a power-up strapping option and the
software configuration after power-up.
When idle, advanced power management features allows the PC97338 to enter extremely low
power modes under software control. The PC97338 operates at a 3.3/5V power supply.
2.6.1 Features
100% compatible with ISA, and EISA architectures
The Floppy Disk Controller:
Software compatible with the DP8473, the 765A and the N82077
16-byte FlFO(disabled by default)
Burst and Non-Burst modes
Perpendicular Recording drive support
New high-performance internal digital data separator(no external filter components required)
Low-power CMOS with enhanced power-down mode
Automatic media-sense support, with full IBM TDR(Tape Drive Register) implementation
Supports fast 2 Mbps and standard 1 Mbps/500 kbps/250 kbps tape drives