Difference between revisions of "Category:84PCE:General Hardware Information"

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The TI-84 Plus CE and TI-83 Premium are two models new in 2015. The former is for the USA region (maybe all of North American?) and the latter is for France. The hardware is virtually identical between the two models.

Known hardware facts:

• eZ80 CPU
  • Effective clock speed between 12-15 MHz
  • CPU might be clocked faster but have a lot of wait states
• 4 MB flash chip
  • Bottom-boot organization this time
• 256 K main RAM
• Memory-mapped LCD
  • 153600 bytes of VRAM confirmed, unknown if more exists
  • Possibly an ARM Primecell PL111
• French version has testing LED; American version may get a testing LED in the future
• User programs are prohibited from using any IN/OUT instructions
  • OUT causes a reset
  • IN is censored, because all Americans love censorship!
• But, there is ALSO still a flash unlock sequence
  • Any attempts to circumvent these restrictions are likely to be blocked aggressively by TI like they do with the Nspire series
  • No, you are not allowed to read directly from the keyboard port instead of using BCALLs
  • No, you cannot change interrupt settings
  • It doesn't matter if there are crystal timers, because you can't use them
  • No, you are not allowed to use 8-bit palette mode
  • No, you are not allowed to change the LCD base address to get double buffering
  • You can set IM2, but you can't do anything useful with it (for very long) because you can't acknowledge interrupts
• Flash starts at $000000
• RAM starts at $D00000
  • Why not $800000? No, seriously, why?
• No more assembly program size limit or execution limit
• VRAM starts at $D40000
• VRAM is executable, for what it's worth