WD1983 Overview
The WD 1983 is an N channel silicon gate MOs/LSI device that interfaces a digital asynchronous channel with a parallel channel. It is available in a ceramic or plastic standard 28 pin dual in line package. The WD1983 is a fully programmable microprocessor I/O peripheral with two control registers and a status register.
WD1983 Key Features
- FULL DUPLEX OPERATION
- SELECTABLE 5,B,7, & 8 BIT CHARACTERS
- LINE BREAK DETECTION AND GENERATION
- 1, 1Y2, or 2 STOP BIT SELECTION
- FALSE START BIT DETECTION
- OVERRUN AND FRAMING ERROR DETECTION
- DC TO 3BK BITS/SEC (lBX)
- DC TO BOOK BITS/SEC (1 X)
- 8251/8251 A ASYNCHRONOUS ONLY REPLACEMENT
- REQUIRES NO ASYNCHRONOUS SYSTEM CLOCK