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7 timer – Acrosser AR-B9612 User Manual

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2-10 AR-B9612 User’s Guide

Address

Description

17

Low expansion memory byte

18

High expansion memory byte

19-2D Reserved

2E-2F 2-byte CMOS checksum

30

Low actual expansion memory byte

31

High actual expansion memory byte

32

Date century byte

33

Information flags (set during power on)

34-7F Reserved for system BIOS

Table 2-5 Real-Time Clock & Non-Volatile RAM

2.7 TIMER

The AR-B9612 provides three programmable timers, each with a
timing frequency of 1.19 MHz.

Timer 0 The output of this timer is tied to interrupt request 0.

(IRQ 0)

Timer 1 This timer is used to trigger memory refresh cycles.

Timer 2 This timer provides the speaker tone.

Application programs can load different counts into
this timer to generate various sound frequencies.