3095

ND-110 CX CPU board, component side

ND-110 CX CPU board, solder side

3095 is the second ND-110 CPU board. The first version was numbered 3090. It contains the CPU, bus arbitration logic, memory control, cache memory and other subsystems, including the Real time clock and the I/O for the serial console.

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Introduction

The ND-110 is an improvement over the ND-100 in a number of areas.

• Size. The CPU, the Memory Management System, cache memory and operator panel processor is combined on one single board.
• New technology. The CPU is constructed by a gate-array. The CPU concists of three VLSI gate arrays, RMIC, RMAC and BUFALU.
• New cache memory strategy. The first micro instruction word of a macroinstruction is stored in cache memory.
• Address arithmetic. Address arithmetic is performed in the RMAC gate array, not by the micro code as in ND-100.
• The interrupt system. Unlike the ND-100 CPU, the ND-110/CX CPU handles synchronous interrupts as traps., a bit like ND-500 does.
• The Control Store. The control store is based on fast read/write ram instead of prom. At power up the memory is initialised from two 8 kbyte EPROMs. The control store can be read or modified by program.
• Control logic and timing. Much of the control and timing logic have been moved into PAL chips. The main crystal oscillator is now a 39.3216 MHz oscillator. It is used for the nano-sequencer, the CPU-clock, the bus arbiter, the real time clock and the console UART. The nano-sequencer is a four bit state machine used for timing and control.
• Power consumption. The power consumption was reduced from 90 watts to 60.

Switches and indicators

The following switches and indicators are on the card

Location 28J - ALD edge switch
Location 24J - self test lamp (green)
Location 23J - running lamp (red)
Location 22J - cache on lamp (red)
Location 21J - cache on/off switch
Location  8J - baud rate edge switch
Location  7J - potentiometer

Connectors

The A and B connectors are used for I/O, the C connector is used for the ND-100 Bus.

New instructions

• TRA CS - Reads 16 control storage bits into the A-register. The X-register contains the store address.
• TRR CS - Writes the A-register into 16 control store bits. The X-register contains the control store address.
• TRR CILP - Cache inhibit individual page.
• VERSN - Reads version numbers of print and micro program.
• SETPT - Set page tables.
• CLEPT - Clear page tables.
• CLNREENT - Clear non re-entrant pages.
• CHREENTPAGES - Change page tables.
• CLEPU - Clear page tables and collect PGU information.
• WGLOB - Initialize global pointers.
• RGLOB - Examine global pointers.
• INSPL - Insert page in page list.
• REMPL - Remove page from page list.
• CNREK - Clear non re-entrant pages.
• CLPT - Clear segment from page tables.
• ENPT - Enter segment in page tables.
• REPT - Enter re-entrant segment in page tables.
• LBIT - Load single bit accumulator (K) with logical memory bit.
• SBITP - Store single bit accumulator (K) in a physical memory bit.
• LBYTP - Load the A register with a single byte from physical memory.
• SBYTP - Store single byte in physical memory.
• TSETP - Test and set a physical memory word.
• RDUSP - Read a physical memory word without using cache.
• LASB - Load the A register with the contents of the segment-table bank (STBNK).
• SASB - Store the A register contents in the STBNK.
• LACB - Load the A register with the contents of the core map-table bank (CMBNK).
• SACB - Store the A register contents in the CMBNK.
• LXSB - Load the X register with the contents of the STBNK.
• LXCB - Load the X register with the contents of the CMBNK.
• SZSB - Store zero in the STBNK.
• SZCB - Store zero in the CMBNK.

Reference

• Norsk Data Document ND–06.026 ND-110 Functional Description (ND-06.026.01 rev A)