On Thursday 17 April 2003 23:02, Toby Jaffey wrote:
If you're brave enough to crack it open, is the processor marked with a code?
What else is inside the box?
I cracked it open this afternoon, here's what I have found inside.
The board is marked Netbox 3.55 ISDN IT1, it is a very small board (not much larger footprint than a DVD case)
The Processor is marked STPC Consumer, STPCC0166BTC3. At first I thought this was one of the ST Micro Consumer II Products (133Mhz 486 core, with some video on chip) But now I am not so sure. In fact I can't seem to find any reference to this chip so any help here would be gratefully received. (If it was a consumer II then that would be dandy as there is a bit of Linux stuff for that, XFree drivers etc)
Next to that there is a Orca FPGA, not sure what this is doing most likely it's providing some interface logic.
Slightly below we have 8MB of M Systems Disk on chip.
Above the processor we have an ESS ES1869F Audio chip (similar to what's used in Laptops with ESS audio.
Over to the right we have a Crystal Lan KTAAFD0007 connected to a RJ45 socket. (this netbox is supposed to use a Cable box as an ethernet gateway to the internet)
Below this is a smartcard reader, the unit can come like mine with an "empty" smart card for the user to program in the internet setup. Or it can come with a "fixed" smartcard (presumably provided by a service provider) On this card as well as ethernet setup you can configure homepages and banner sources.
To the left of the processor is 4x K4E151612C-TC60 (8MB of ram ?? I haven't checked yet)
Above the processor is a rather nifty Micronas Video Pixel Decoder (presumably there for the TV Picture as a Thumbnail function.)
At the front is a Microphone and a IR Device for the Keyboard/remote (Note not an IRDA device I think this this is a pickup only)
To the left is a Unidentified properiatary 26 pin connector (wired via some protection and filters straight to the Processor) Some sort of expansion connector no doubt.
To the rear we have two Scart connectors, one output and one loopthrough, RGB pins wired on the output one. (when in operation you can have a thumbnail view of what's on the loopthrough connector)
I'll have more info when I get some cat 5 from the office and get this thing on a network.