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Panasonic KX-TD816BX Hardware Insights
Overview
This system got not more than a few hundred KB's of RAM. System configuration is stored on a EEPROM. The CPU is a 68k chip (yeah, same as Macintosh computers and several embedded devices of the era). This unity got the TMP68301AF-12 variant of that chip, manufactured by Toshiba.
The ROM complex is detachable, for reasons I deem unclear, since those chips are already seated on sockets. See below for more information on that detachable board.
ROM/RTC clock Board
This complex seems to be upgradeable (if you ever find that stuff.) Here we can find:
IC20: P401A, matches the system ROM version (P401A60905A), so it's probably the main firmware;
IC21: P402A, Google returns nothing useful, unknown ROM chip;
IC24: CXK581000AP-10LL, or 131072-word × 8-bit High Speed CMOS Static RAM, which seems to provide our system with healthy 128 KB;
IC25: idem, bringing the total amount of RAM in this module to 256 KB;
IC26: OKI M6242B, an RTC clock chip;
X2: 32.768 kHz crystal oscillator for the RTC chip;
BAT: CR2354 battery, 3V, probaly of the /1GUF variant.
Problems
The RTC battery is probably long dead and showing signs of oxidation on it's legs;
There's was a bad and mysterious corrosion under the RTC oscillator, that I've already removed, after taking this photo;
This same oscillator isn't operating reliably, sometimes it takes a while for the clock to start, well, clocking, and this component is probably the culprit;
## Chips under ROM/RTC card
Two proprietary parts are to be found here:
- IC2: PQVI620890F
- IC19: PQVI05JP031G, seems to be a EEPROM, simply referred as «ROM» in the parts list of TD816E service manual, and referred as «conference ROM» here(WebArchive).
I can't say (at this moment) what they are exactly, albeit I suspect they could be related to conference, tone generation and related functions.
Then we have:
- IC3: MT8981D, didn't