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I've taken the liberty of labeling everything that I could.

THIS IS JUST AN EDUCATED GUESS!!!

I'm pretty sure I'm correct on most of it.

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I've taken the liberty of labeling everything that I could.

THIS IS JUST AN EDUCATED GUESS!!!

I'm pretty sure I'm correct on most of it.

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You missed the mini - usb connecter, but cheers :)
 
Kevin_H said:
I've taken the liberty of labeling everything that I could.

THIS IS JUST AN EDUCATED GUESS!!!

I'm pretty sure I'm correct on most of it.
Just thought I'd let you know that there's no external ram or flash, so those guesses were completely wrong. I also doubt Michael has used a RS-232 level convertor (not everyone is going to use the uart, so it seems a bit daft to spend the cash on the convertor).

Also, does this thing fry fish? Just wondering about the "batter charge" ;)
 
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I dunno about the chips at all, but some other things that I haven't seen anyone point out, that I think are likely guesses:

- lower left, to the right of the volume dial is a power switch
- upper left and right corners are shoulder buttons
- connector to the right of USB host is power input
 
Squidge said:
Just thought I'd let you know that there's no external ram or flash, so those guesses were completely wrong. I also doubt Michael has used a RS-232 level convertor (not everyone is going to use the uart, so it seems a bit daft to spend the cash on the convertor).

Also, does this thing fry fish? Just wondering about the "batter charge" ;)
There is external Ram and flash, I forgot the ram sits on top of the CPU, but if you look at the spec sheet for the OMAP, it doesn't have any internal Flash. So a flash chip is needed to store a kernel image or at least a simple SD card bootloader.

http://focus.ti.com/docs/prod/folders/print/omap3530.html

Second I believe that the RS-232 converter is for Debug and board bringup purposes, it will be removed once the design has been proven.

What I labeled as EXT Ram is most likely the LCD controller. (I thought the LCD controller was internal and the Ram was external, I probably should have looked at the spec sheet first for the OMAP)
 
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Kevin_H said:
There is external Ram and flash, I forgot the ram sits on top of the CPU, but if you look at the spec sheet for the OMAP, it doesn't have any internal Flash. So a flash chip is needed to store a kernel image or at least a simple SD card bootloader.
My post wasn't phrased in the best way, by "external" I meant somewhere else on the board. Both ram and flash are actually on top of the omap (It's a combined ram+flash setup, not seperate chips for each).

Kevin_H said:
Second I believe that the RS-232 converter is for Debug and board bringup purposes, it will be removed once the design has been proven.
Now thats a possibility.

Kevin_H said:
What I labeled as EXT Ram is most likely the LCD controller. (I thought the LCD controller was internal and the Ram was external, I probably should have looked at the spec sheet first for the OMAP)
The LCD controller *is* internal. However, the omap can't drive an LCD directly, therefore a buffer is required.
 
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Squidge said:
Kevin_H said:
I've taken the liberty of labeling everything that I could.

THIS IS JUST AN EDUCATED GUESS!!!

I'm pretty sure I'm correct on most of it.
Just thought I'd let you know that there's no external ram or flash, so those guesses were completely wrong. I also doubt Michael has used a RS-232 level convertor (not everyone is going to use the uart, so it seems a bit daft to spend the cash on the convertor).

Also, does this thing fry fish? Just wondering about the "batter charge" ;)

Don't be too harsh on the guy, he's only tryna help us electronic noobs.
 
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Squidge said:
My post wasn't phrased in the best way, by "external" I meant somewhere else on the board. Both ram and flash are actually on top of the omap (It's a combined ram+flash setup, not separate chips for each).
I didn't know that the flash was included in the ram chip, thats pretty sweet. The team is pretty lucky that this is TI's pet project otherwise parts like the RAM/FLASH chip and CPU would be pretty dam expensive in low quantities, if not impossible to get.
 
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nice pixs :D on the blog

and @ Squidge congrats on being a new mod
hope you don't let the ban power temp you :p ;)
 
argor said:
nice pixs :D on the blog

and @ Squidge congrats on being a new mod
hope you don't let the ban power temp you :p ;)
Yeah, it all looks nice. I'm looking forward to seeing all of that silicon and plastic actually do something :D

(Oh, and congrats Squidgie.)
 
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argor said:
and @ Squidge congrats on being a new mod
hope you don't let the ban power temp you :p ;)
I thought Squidge had a different avvy. But no one was mentioning that he was a mod, so I thought that maybe you could have that avvy and still not be a mod or something.

Congrats Squidge rule us watch over us with dignity

-God Ginrai
 
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Nova said:
Don't be too harsh on the guy, he's only tryna help us electronic noobs.
Yup, I know. I just wanted to make sure people didn't get the idea that they could remove that chip and replace with a bigger one to get more memory.

As for the small square chip below the omap cpu, it should be one of these:
http://focus.ti.com/general/docs/wtbu/wtbu...templateId=6123
 
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