Front Panel Daughterboard: Difference between revisions

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The Front Panel Daughterboard is located in region A2 of the jwdonal schematic

The Front Panel Daughterboard (known as the "Front Connector Unit in the official Nintendo documentation^[1] ) is situated perpendicular to the SNES Motherboard. It contains the two controller ports and the red power indicator LED. In the jwdonal schematic, pins 4, 6, 5, and 7 are named after JOYA and JOYB, the fullsnes common names for the read-only joypad input registers A & B, who's addresses are 4016h and 4017h.

References

Figure 2-22-1, "Super NES Functional Block Diagram" on page 2-22-2 of Book I of the official Super Nintendo development manual
http://problemkaputt.de/fullsnes.htm#snescontrollersioportsmanualreading

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 [[File:Front Panel Daughterboard schematic.png|thumb|The Front Panel Daughterboard is located in region A2 of the [[jwdonal schematic]]]]
-The '''Front Panel Daughterboard''' (known as the "'''Front Connector Unit''' in the official Nintendo documentation [1] ) is situated perpendicular to the [[SNES Motherboard]].  It contains the two controller ports and the red power indicator LED.  In the jwdonal schematic, pins 4, 6, 5, and 7 are named after '''JOYA''' and '''JOYB''', the [[fullsnes]] common names for the read-only joypad input registers A & B, who's addresses are '''4016h''' and '''4017h'''.
+The '''Front Panel Daughterboard''' (known as the "'''Front Connector Unit''' in the official Nintendo documentation<sup>[1]</sup> ) is situated perpendicular to the [[SNES Motherboard]].  It contains the two controller ports and the red power indicator LED.  In the jwdonal schematic, pins 4, 6, 5, and 7 are named after '''JOYA''' and '''JOYB''', the [[fullsnes]] common names for the read-only joypad input registers A & B, who's addresses are '''4016h''' and '''4017h'''.
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