Acer Extensa 600 Maintenance Manual

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implement power savings features. From the CMOS setup routine, an automatic power 
down mode can be selected which enables the drive to turn off its motor after a specified 
period of inactivity. Additional Sleep modes can direct additional power savings during 
inactive periods by powering down the control circuitry.
4.2.7 Floppy Disk Drive Subsystem
The Extensa 60x and 65x Series notebooks contain provisions for supporting a Floppy 
Disk Drive installed internally or externally connected to the parallel port. The Floppy 
Disk Drive Subsystem consists of a Floppy Controller and the Floppy Disk Drive located 
either in the media bay or external to the notebook (not both).
The 3.5-inch floppy disk drive can read/write standard 3.5-inch disks (either1.44 MB 
or 2 MB capacity). The drive can also read a 720 KB disk (for interchange of data with 
other computers).
The data transfer rate for the floppy disk drive is 500 Kbits per second for high-density 
disks and 250 Kbits per second for double-density disks.
4.2.8    Power Subsystem
The notebook is equipped with a software/hardware monitored/controlled Power 
Subsystem that minimizes battery usage for prolonged battery operation and 
automatically recharges the batteries when the notebook is used with an AC adapter.
4.2.8.1 AC Power Adapter
The computer is equipped with a universal AC power adapter that converts AC voltage  
into DC voltage (approx. 46 Watts of power) used to operate the notebook and charge 
the batteries.  The specifications for the AC adapter include:
¨Input Voltage:  100 to 250 VAC
¨Input Current:  Approximately 1.5 Amps
¨Input Frequency: 50 to 60 Hz
4.3 Detailed Circuit Theory
The remainder of this section provides chip-level circuit description for the Extensa 
Series Notebooks. 
						

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4.3.1 Major Components
Table 4-1 shows a listing the of the major components used in the Extensa Series 
Notebooks.
4.3.2 System Architecture
Figure 4-2 shows the Extensa system architecture. The remainder of this section 
provides a detailed description of the major chips used in the Extensa Notebooks.
Table 4-1 Major Chips List
ComponentVendor Description
M1521Acer System data buffer
M1523Acer System controller chip
M6377Acer Power management unit
65550C&T (Chips & Technology) Video controller
TI1130Texas Instruments PCMCIA controller
NS87336VJGNS (National Semiconductor) Super I/O controller
ESS1688ESS Technology Sound controller
T62.045.C.00Ambit Battery Charger
T62.041.C.00Ambit DC-DC Converter
DAC-07B008Delta DC-AC Inverter
M38802Phoenix Keyboard encoder & controller 
						

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Figure 4-2  Extensa Series System Architecture Diagram
M1521
M1523
 SYSTEM ARCHITECTURE
ta g 8/11-b it
TT LSRAM
208-PQFP/RTC/KBC328-BGA
586 CPU
addrdata
PCI
ISA
DRAM
MD
GC
MA
CTLR
IDE busHDD
128K/256K
FlashXD - TTL
USB conn 
						

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The signal descriptions for the M1521 are provided in Table 4-2. The chip pinouts are 
provided in Figure 4-3.
ALI M1521 (PCI, Cache, and Memory Controller)
The ALADDIN-III consists of two chips, ALI M1521 and M1523 to give a 586 class
system the complete solution with the most up-to-date feature and architecture for the
new multimedia/multithreading operating system.  It utilizes the BGA package to improve
the AC characterization, resolves system bottleneck and make the system manufacturing
easier.  The ALADDIN-III gives a highly-integrated system solution and a most up-to-
date system architecture including the UMA, ECC, PBSRAM, SDRAM/BEDO, and
multi-bus with highly efficient, deep FIFO between the buses, such as the HOST/PCI/ISA
dedicated IDE bus.
The M1521 provides a complete integrated solution for the system controller and data
path components in a Pentium-based system.  It provides 64-bit CPU bus interface, 32-bit
PCI bus interface, 64/72 DRAM data bus with ECC or parity, secondary cache interface
including pipeline burst SRAM or asynchronous SRAM, PCI master to DRAM interface,
four PCI master arbiters, and a UMA arbiter.  The M1521 bus interfaces are designed to
interface with 3V and 5V buses.  It directly 
						

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Figure 4-3 M1521 Pin Assignments 
						

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A simplified block diagram of the M1523 chip is shown in Figure 4-4 and the associated 
pinouts are provided in Figure 4-5.
4.3.2.1 ALI M1523 (PCI-ISA Bridge)
The M1523 is a bridge between PCI and ISA bus, providing full PCI and ISA compatible functions.  The
M1523 has Integrated System Peripherals (ISP) on-chip and provides advanced features in the DMA
controller.  This chip contains the keyboard controller, real-time clock and IDE master controller.  This
chip also supports the Advanced Programmable Interrupt controller (APIC) interface.
One eight-byte bidirectional line buffer is provided for ISA/DMA master memory read/writes.  One 32-bit
wide posted-write buffer is provided for PCI memory write cycles to the ISA bus.  It also supports a PCI to
ISA IRQ routing table and level-to-edge trigger transfer.
The chip has two extra IRQ lines and one programmable chip select for motherboard Plug-and-Play
functions.  The interrupt lines can be routed to any of the available ISA interrupts.
The on-chip IDE controller supports two IDE connectors for up to four IDE devices providing an interface
for IDE hard disks and CD-ROMs.  The ATA bus pins are dedicated to improve the performance of IDE
master.
The M1523 supports the Super Green feature for Intel and Intel compatible CPUs.  It implements
programmable hardware events, software event and external switches (for suspend/turbo/ring-in).  The
M1523 provides CPU clock control (STPCLKJ).  The STPCLKJ can be active (low) or inactive (high) in
turn by throttling control. 
						

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Figure 4-4  M1523 Chip Simplified Block Diagram
M 1523 Block Diagram
DATA
Buffer
Control
Address
Buffer
Decoder
Clock & Reset
PCI BUS
Interface
UNIT
PCI
Arbiter
Interface
ISA
Interrupt
UNIT
PCI
Interrupt
UNIT
CPU
Interface
USB
Interface
(reserved)
PCI
IDE
Master
Interface
ISA BUS
Interface
UNIT
DMA
Refresh
UNIT
PMU or APIC
Interface
PS2/AT
Keyboard
Controller
Timer
UNIT
MISC.
Logic
REAL
Time
Clock
PWG
CPURST
RSTDRV
OSC14M
PCICLK
CBEJ[3:0]
AD[31:0]
FRAMEJ
TRDYJ
IRDYJ
STOPJ
DEVSELJ
SERRJ
PAR
PHOLDJ
PHLDAJ
FERRJ
IRQ[15:14]
IRQ[11:3]
INTAJ/M1II
NTBJ/S0
INTCJ/S1
INTDJ/S2
IGNNEJ
INTR
NMI
A20MJ
USBCLK
USBP[11:10]
IDRQ[0:1]
IDAKJ[0:1]
IDERDY
IDEIORJ
IDEIOWJ
IDESCS3J
IDESCS1J
IDEPCS3J
IDEPCS1J
IDE_A[2:0]
IDE_D[15:0]
SD[15:8]
XD[7:0]
SA[19:0]
SBHEJ
LA[23:17]
IO16J
M16J
MEMRJ
MEMWJ
AEN
IOCHRDYJ
NOWSJ
IOCHKJ
SYSCLK
BALE
IORJ
IOWJ
SMEMRJ/LMEGJ
SMEMWJ/RTCAS
EXTSW
STPCLKJ
SPKR
SIRQI
XDIR
SPLED
ROMCSJ
SIRQII
RTC32KI
RTC32KII
KBINH/IRQ1
KBCLK/KBCSJ
KBDATA
MSCLK
IRQ12/MDATA
DREQ[7:5]
DREQ[3:0]
DACKJ[7:5]
DACK2J/3J
TC
REFSHJ 
						

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Figure 4-5  M1523 Pinouts
                         
                              
VDD
IRQ12
MSCLK
KBDATA
KBCLK/KBCSJ
KBINH/IRQ1
IDE SCS3J
IDE SCS1J
IDE PCS3J
IDE PCS1J
IDE _A0
IDE _A2
IDE _A1
IDA KJ 1
IDA KJ 0
IDE RDY
IDE IORJ
IDE IOW J
IDRQ1
IDRQ0
IDE_D0
IDE_D15
Vss
IDE_D1
IDE_D14
IDE_D2
IDE_D13
IDE_D3
IDE_D12
IDE_D4
IDE_D11
IDE_D5
IDE_D10
IDE_D6
IDE_D9
IDE_D7
VDD
IDE_D8
AD0
AD1
AD2
AD3
AD4
AD5
AD6
AD7
CBEJ0
AD8
AD9
AD10
AD11
VDD Vss
BALE
SA2
SA1
SA0
SBHEJ
M16J
LA23
IO16J
LA22
IRQ10
LA21
IRQ11
VDD/BAT
RTC32KII
RTC32KI
PW G
LA20
LA19
IRQ15
LA18
IRQ14
LA17
MEMRJ
DREQ0
Vss
MEMW J
DACK5J
SD8
DREQ5
SD9
DACK6J
SD10
DREQ6
SD11
DACK7J
SD12
DREQ7
SD13
VDD
SD14
SD15
OSC14M
SIRQI
SIRQII
USBCLK
DACK0J
DACK1J
CPURST
SMIJ
STPCLKJ
Vss 1
2
3
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5
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ALi
M1523 
						

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A simplified block diagram of the  M6377 Power Management Unit is provided in Figure 
4-6. The chip pinouts are provided in Figure 4-7.
4.3.2.2    ALI M6377 (Power Management Unit)
· Three operation states
· ON state
· DOZE state
· SLEEP state
· Programmable DOZE and SLEEP timers
· Programmable EL timer for backlight control
· Three output pins depending on operation state, each pin is programmable and power configurable.
· Provide system activity monitoring, including:
· video
· hard disk
· floppy disk
· serial port
· keyboard
· parallel port
· two programmable I/O groups activity monitor, each group contains 16/8 I/O addresses.
· one predefined I/O group activity monitor
· Multiple external wake up events from DOZE and SLEEP states
· External push button
· RTC alarm
· Two levels battery warning monitor
· AC power monitoring to disable PMU function 
						

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Figure 4-6  M6377 Simplified Block Diagram
ACTIVITY
MONITOR
EL TIMER
PROGRAMABLE
APM TIMER
x 2
BATTERY
MONITOR
GPIO
SMI
HANDLER
STATE
CONTROLLER
WAKEUP
EVENT
HANDLER
BUS
INTERF
ACE
Timebase
OTHER