Acer 61X User Manual

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Major Chips Description
2-15
 32-bit addressability
 Provides compatible DMA transfers
 Provides type F transfers
 
Interrupt controller
 Provides 14 interrupt channels
 Independently programmable level/edge triggered channels
 
Counter/Timers
 Provides 8254 compatible timers for system timer, refresh request, speaker output use
 
Keyboard controller
 Built-in PS2/AT keyboard controller
 The specific I/O is used to save the external TTL buffer
 
Real time clock
 Built-in real-time clock
 128-byte CMOS RAM with 2µA standby current maximum
 
Plug-and-Play port support
 programmable chip select
 Steerable interrupt request lines
 
PMU interface
 Supports CPU SMM mode, SMI feature
 Supports programmable stop clock throttle
 Supports the APM control
 Provides external suspend mode switch/turbo switch/ring-in switch
 Provides four system states for power saving (on, doze, standby, suspend)
 Provides three timers from 1 second to 300 minutes to individually monitor VGA, MODE,
IN status
 Supports RTC alarm wake up control
 
IDE interface
 Built-in PCI IDE master controller
 Supports PIO modes up to mode 5 timings, and multiword DMA mode 0, 1, 2
 8 x 32-bit pre-read and posted-write buffers
 Dedicated pins for ATA interface
 
Supports up to 256 KB ROM size decode
 
Reserved USB interface
 
208-pin PQFP package