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The main board
What is it?
An electronic board with all what is needed for an Internet
terminal.
It is 95 x 87 mm. wide. The board include 2 DSP processors, a small component,
very powerfull just like you find in your GSM if it is a new generation.
A Texas Instruments DSP, of 50 MIPS computation power.
The board is also equiped with 256 Kbytes of fast static
RAM. And it include also a Solid State Disk of 16 Mbytes. On this disk
it is able to memorize thousands of HTML pages with images.
But it include also a fast SDRAM of 2 Mbytes. Managed like a Ramdisk,
it permits to store programs or datas.
2 others memory components of type EDO DRAM exist on the board, one as
main memory for the second DSP, the second as video memory.
And a programmable logic component is used to manage all the logic of
the board.
The programs running on this board are Charlie, our browser,
HTML 3.2 compliant. But also a TCP/IP stack, a realtime kernel, a storage
manager (yes, a disk manager but this is not a disk!), and we have a GUI,
a graphical one, also very small and fast.
Ofcourse later other softwares like Email, FTP,....
One DSP is used as main processor.
The other is the graphic controler, communicating with the main processor
through an host port at 1.5 Mbytes/sec.
This graphic engine manage the 2 video memories, one as general memory,
the other as display memory.
The programmable logic is also used and connected to all elements on the
board, capable to control all what is done.
This board can be sold as a complete unit fabricated
by us.
Else it can be licensed or all technologies and design can also be sold.
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