INS1771-1 Overview
The INS1771-1 is a programmable floppy disk formatter/ controller chip contained in a standard 40'pin dual-in· line package. which is fabricated using N-channel silicon gate technology. interfaces a floppy disk drive directly to a puter interface bus.
INS1771-1 Key Features
- Soft Sector Format patibility
- Automatic Track Seek with Verification
- Provisions for Miniature Floppy Disk Interface
- Read Mode Capabil ities Single/Multiple Record Read with Automatic Sector Search or Entire Track Read Selectable 128-8yt
- Write Mode Capabilities Single/Multiple Record Write with Automatic Sector Search Entire Track Write for Diskette Initia
- Programmable Controls Selectable Track-to-Track Stepping Time Selectable Head Settling and Head Engage Times Selectable
- Double Buffering of Data
- TTL patible
- DMA or Programmed Data Transfers
- Reduces System ponent Count