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CMOS(国外英语资料) CMOS (meaning is refers to the complementary metal oxide semiconductor, a large-scale application in the integrated circuit chip manufacturing raw material) is a computer motherboard a read-write RAM chip, is used to save the current system hardware configuration and users of certain parameters set. CMOS can be powered by the battery of the main board, and the information will not be lost even if the system loses power. CMOS RAM is itself a memory, only data preservation, and the set of parameters in the CMOS is programmed through special programs. Early CMOS setup programs hosted on floppy disks, such as IBMs PC/AT, were difficult to use. Most manufacturers will now in the CMOS setup program did the BIOS chip, the boot by specific keys can enter the CMOS setup and easily to set of system, so the CMOS setup and is called the BIOS Settings. The early CMOS were a single chip, MC146818A (DIP encapsulation), which contained 64 bytes of system information and saw the CMOS configuration data table. After 386 general will MC146818A chip microcomputer integrated into other IC chips (such as 82 c206 PQFP packages), some of the latest 586 motherboard is CMOS with battery back-up system real time clock and set into a called DALLDA DS1287 chip. With the development of microcomputer and the increase of set parameters, CMOS RAM now has 128 bytes and 256 bytes of capacity. To maintain compatibility, the BIOS vendors will own BIOS on the first 64 bytes of CMOS RAM content of unified consistent with MC146818A CMOS RAM format, and the part in extend out to join his particular Settings, the BIOS chip so different manufacturers generally are not interchangeable, even can swap, swap information to CMOS reset after to ensure the normal operation of system. Do you know the BIOS chip on the motherboard? Introduces the common recognition of the BIOS chip ROM BIOS are stored on the main board microcomputer procedure read-only memory, input/output on its function of microcompute