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IBM 5160  -  Motherboard Diagrams


IBM's technical reference for the IBM 5160 contains a lot of diagrams.
Following are some motherboard related diagrams that I have created.


RAM bank layout

Reset flow

Clock generation

NMI generation

Data bus - Simplified

Address bus - Simplified

Speaker circuitry - Simplified

Memory layout of BIOS and BASIC

Possible use of speaker connector for digital input

Digital output via pin PB2 of the 8255 chip

RAM parity generation and comparison

Keyboard - Interface circuitry
Keyboard - Startup behaviour (for 05/09/86 BIOS)
Keyboard - Startup behaviour (for 05/09/86 BIOS) - Different keyboards

Generation of CS for U18 ROM

Some 8253 related circuitry

64-256KB motherboard - RAS CAS delay
64-256KB motherboard - CAS and RAMADDRSEL generation

64-256KB motherboard - External address bus to memory address bus
256-640KB motherboard - External address bus to memory address bus

8088 CPU to address bus