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    6850 Asynchronous Communications Interface Adapter

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    The 6850 Asynchronous Communications Interface Adapter (ACIA) contains the logic required to set up an asynchronous data link between a computer and external system. It has internal registers divided into processor, receiver, and transmitter sections. As far as the CPU is concerned, the 6850 behaves like static memory but its accesses are synchronized to an external clock. It has four registers - transmit data, receive data, system control, and system status - that are selected using one register select input and the R/W signal to distinguish read/write access.

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    The 6850 Asynchronous Communications Interface Adapter (ACIA) contains the logic required to set up an asynchronous data link between a computer and external system. It has internal registers divided into processor, receiver, and transmitter sections. As far as the CPU is concerned, the 6850 behaves like static memory but its accesses are synchronized to an external clock. It has four registers - transmit data, receive data, system control, and system status - that are selected using one register select input and the R/W signal to distinguish read/write access.

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    The 6850 Asynchronous Communications Interface Adapter (ACIA) contains the logic required to set up an asynchronous data link between a computer and external system. It has internal registers divided into processor, receiver, and transmitter sections. As far as the CPU is concerned, the 6850 behaves like static memory but its accesses are synchronized to an external clock. It has four registers - transmit data, receive data, system control, and system status - that are selected using one register select input and the R/W signal to distinguish read/write access.

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    The 6850 Asynchronous Communications Interface Adapter (ACIA) contains the logic required to set up an asynchronous data link between a computer and external system. It has internal registers divided into processor, receiver, and transmitter sections. As far as the CPU is concerned, the 6850 behaves like static memory but its accesses are synchronized to an external clock. It has four registers - transmit data, receive data, system control, and system status - that are selected using one register select input and the R/W signal to distinguish read/write access.

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    6850AsynchronousCommunicationsInterfaceAdapter

    AsynchronousCommunicationsInterface
    Adapter(ACIA)

    The ACIA contains almost all the logic required to set up an asynchronous data link between a
    computer and an external system. A simplified and complete block diagram of the 6850 ACIA
    is illustrated below:

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    The Internal Registers of the 6850 ACIA


    The hardware model may be divided into three sections the processor side, the receiver
    side and the transmitter side.

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    The 6850 ACIA


    As far as the CPU is concerned, the 6850 behaves almost exactly like static memory. The
    important difference is that the 6850's memory accesses are synchronised to an external E
    clock. The timing of synchronous memory transfers to/from the 6850 ACIA can be seen
    below.
    Operation of the ACIA
    The software model of the 6850 ACIA has four useraccessible registers, as shown below:

    RegisterSelection Scheme of the 6850 ACIA


    These registers are transmit data register (TDR), receive data register (RDR), system control
    register (CR) and a system status register (SR). Note that there are four registers, but only
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    one registerselect input RS, which can distinguish between only two registers. The 6850 uses
    the R/!W signal to distinguish between the four this is possible because two registers are
    read only and two are write only.
    Full details of the 6850 ACIA are available, if required.

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