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DIGITAL-LOGIC AG    MSB900/L Detailed Technical Manual V1.0 
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5.8.1.  EEPROM Memory for Setup 
The EEPROM is used for setup and configuration data, stored as an alternative to the CMOS-RTC. Option-
ally, the EEPROM setup driver may update the CMOS RTC, if the battery is running down and the checksum 
error would appear and stop the system. The capacity of the EEPROM is 2 kByte. 
Organization of the 2048Byte EEPROMs: 
Address MAP:  Function: 
0000h  CMOS-Setup valid (01=valid) 
0001h  Reserved 
0003h  Flag for DLAG-Message (FF=no message) 
0010h-007Fh  Copy of CMOS-Setup data 
0080h-00FFh  Reserved for AUX-CMOS-Setup 
0100h-010Fh  Serial-Number 
0110h-0113h  Production date (year/day/month) 
0114h-0117h  1. Service date (year/day/month) 
0118h-011Bh  2. Service date (year/day/month) 
011Ch-011Fh  3. Service date (year/day/month) 
0120h-0122h  Boot errors (Auto incremented if any boot error occurs) 
0123h-0125h  Setup Entries (Auto incremented on every Setup entry) 
0126h-0128h  Low Battery (Auto incremented every time the battery is low, EEPROM -> CMOS) 
0129h-012Bh  Startup (Auto incremented on every power-on start) 
0130h  Reserved 
0131h  Reserved 
0132h/0133h  BIOS Version (V1.4 => [0132h]:= 4, [0133h]:=1) 
0134h/0135h  BOARD Version (V1.5 => [0124h]:=5, [0125h]:=1) 
0136h  BOARD TYPE (‘M’=PC/104, ‘E’=Euro, ‘W’=MSWS, ‘S’=Slot, ‘C’=Custom, ‘X’= smart-
Core or smartModule) 
0137h  CPU TYPE: 
(01h=ELAN300/310, 02h=ELAN400, 05h=P5, 08h=P3, 09h=ELAN520, 10h=P-M). 
0200h-03FFh  Reserved 
0200h-027Fh  Reserved 
0400h-07FFh  Free for Customer use 
5.9.  Memory & I/O Map 
5.9.1.  System Memory Map 
The X86 CPU, used as a central processing unit on the MICROSPACE, has a memory address space which 
is defined by 32 address bits. Therefore, it can address 1 GByte of memory. The memory address MAP is as 
follows: 
CPU GEODE 
Address:  Size:  Function / Comments: 
000000 - 09FFFFh  640 kBytes  Onboard DRAM for DOS applications 
0A0000 - 0BFFFFh  128 kBytes  CGA, EGA, LCD Video RAM 128kB 
0C0000 - 0C7FFFh 
0C8000 - 0CFFFFh 
 32 kBytes 
 32 kBytes 
VGA BIOS 
Free for user 
0D0000 - 0DFFFFh   64 kBytes  Free for user 
0E0000 - 0EBFFFh 
0EC000 - 0EFFFFh 
 32 kBytes 
 16 kBytes 
Bios 
BIOS extensions 
0F0000 - 0FFFFFh   64 kBytes  Core BIOS 
100000 - 1FFFFFFh   31 MBytes  DRAM for extended onboard memory 










