collection philpem, vendor vlsi-technology, type unknown, year unknown, foundry unknown

Albion is the codename for the ARM IOC, the I/O controller used in the Acorn Archimedes series workstations.

This chip was found to be faulty and removed from an Acorn Archimedes workstation.

Package

PLCC, 68 pins.

(VLSI logo)
8829AV   K34812
VL2311-QC
ALBION
ACORN

Die

AV004 - IOC
2311

(Nut logo) ACORN

DWH JSU
  MM
DWF TGS

Credits are:

DWH: Dave Howard
JSU: Jamie Urquhart
MM: ?
DWF: ?
TGS: ?

This is the only Acorn ARM series chip with chip-art, a crying eye in a triangle reminiscent of the “all-seeing eye”. This is probably a pun on the name of the chip, “IOC” or I/O Controller.

mz_ms10x

Single (12080×12048, 23.3451MiB)