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Figure 2-1 – Apple iMac User Manual

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C H A P T E R 2

Architecture

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The components at the heart of the iMac computer reside on two printed-circuit
boards: the main logic board and the processor module. The Figure 2-1 is a
block diagram showing the major components on those boards. The
components shown are described in the sections that follow.

Figure 2-1

Block diagram

Power switch
and LED

Sound in

Sound out

IrDA board

Rage IIc

video

DAC

Internal

video

monitor

SGRAM

Cuda

power

manager

IC

Internal IDE
disk drive

PCI bus

Main logic board

SGRAM

SO-DIMM

Processor module

Grackle

memory

controller

and PCI

bus bridge

PowerPC

G3

micro-

processor

512 KB

Backside
L2 cache

Address

Data

ROM

RAM

RAM

SO-DIMM

RAM

SO-DIMM

Modem module

Telephone
connector

Internal
CD-ROM drive

Ethernet
connector

Internal
microphone

Speakers

Headphone
jack board

ST10040

Ethernet IC

Datapump

DAA

Paddington

I/O and

disk

controller

Burgundy
sound I/O

USB port 1
USB port 2

USB IC

Modem

controller