Mattel Aquarius


Cartridge / Extension bus

The cartridge bus on the back of Mattel Aquarius computer provides direct, unbuffered access to all of the address, data, and control lines, allowing the use of external peripherals (memory expansion, modems, and quick disk drives).

Extension Port

Logic TTL Compatible
Loading ADR: 1 TTL load; DATA: 3 TTL loads; CTL: 1 TTL load
Port 44 pin total
(16 Adr, 8 Data, 3 Pwr & Gnd, 16 Control 1 Sound)

Overview

1 CSYNC 2 SOUND
3 INT 4 BUSRQ
5 RESET 6 M1
7 RFSH 8 CLOCK
9 A15 10 A14
11 CE 12 A6
13 A5 14 A7
15 A4 16 A8
17 A3 18 A9
19 A2 20 A10
21 A1 22 A11
23 A0 24 A12
25 +5V 26 D0
27 D1 28 D2
29 D3 30 D4
31 D5 32 D6
33 D7 34 GND
35 RD 36 A13
37 WR 38 MREQ
39 NMI 40 WAIT
41 HALT 42 BUSAK
43 IORQ 44 GND

Description

PIN Nr PIN NameSymbolDescription
1 Composite SyncCSYNC Output, active low. Video synchronisation timing signal
2 SoundSOUND Input/Output, active high. External sound input or internal sound output.
3 Interrupt RequestINT Input, active low. The INT signal is produced by I/O devices.
4 Bus RequestBUSRQ Input, active low. It is used to allow other devices to take control over the process address bus, data bus and 3-state output control signals.
5 ResetRESET Input/Output, active low. When pull low, the Aquarius is reset. Interface may monitor or generate a reset.
6 Machines Cycle oneM1 Input, active low. The INT signal is produced by I/O devices.
7 RefreshRFSH Output, active low. RFSH- indicates that a refresh address for memories is being held in the lower 7-bits of the address bus.
8Clock Output, active high. Standard 3.579545MHz microprocessor clock signal.
11 Chip EnableCE Output, active low. Active when the computer addresses locations C000-CFFF
23,21,19,17,
15,13,12,14,
16,18,20,22,
24,36,10,9		 Address BusA0 - A15 3-State Output, active high. 16-bit address bus line.
26 - 33 Data BusD0 - D7 3-State Input/Output, active high. 8-bits, bidirectional data bus signals.
25 Power Supply+5V +5 Volts.
35 Memory ReadRD 3-State output, active low. RD indicaties that the processor is requesting data from memory or an I/O device.
37 Memory WriteWR 3-State output, active low. The Memory Write signal indicates that the processor data bus is holding valid data to be stored in the addressed memory or I/O device.
38 Memory RequestMREQ 3-State output, active low. MREQ indicates that a valid address for a memory read or write operation is held in the address.
39 Non-Maskable InterruptNMI Input, active low. NMI vectors the processor to subroutine at 0066.
40 WaitWAIT Input, active low. WAIT indicates to the processor that the memory or I/O devices being addressed are not ready for a data transfer. This pin has an internal 47k ohms pullup fore wire-0Red input. WAIT may also act as an output since it provides a 894.88KHz clock with 25% duty cycle.
41 Halt stateHALT Output, active low. The processor willl execute NOP's while halted.
42 Bus AcknowledgeBUSAK Output, active low. BUSAK indicates to the requesting device the processor address bus, databus and 3-state control bus signal have entered high impedance state.
43 Input/Output RequestIORQ 3-State Output, active low. IORQ indicates that the lower half of the address bus holds a valid address for an I/O read or write operation. It is also generated concurrently with M1 during an interrupt acknowledge cycle to indicate that an interrupt response vector can be placed on the data bus.
34,44 Power GNDGND System electrical ground.