Hardware Block Diagram

Dale Schumacher dale.schumacher at gmail.com
Thu Jun 5 17:51:45 CEST 2008


I've done several searches on the wiki and I can't seem to find any block
diagram of the Freerunner hardware.  Is there any such thing?  It would sure
help to clarify how all this stuff is connected.


---------- Forwarded message ----------
> From: Andy Green <andy at openmoko.com>
> Date: Thu, 05 Jun 2008 09:29:36 +0100
> Subject: Re: Yummy new CPU/GPU combo

...

> We would rightly deserve to get our asses laughed at if we did that.
> You're likely thinking about the actual SD Card interface is now via the
> Glamo, which has an SD interface poking out of it.  WIFI is hooked to
> the CPU SDIO bus and we don't otherwise use these buses.
>
> | If it's connected to the address/data bus, why is it so slow and why
> can't
> | DMA be used to copy data to it?
>
> DMA can be used, I seem to recall someone saying they did something with
> it in Xglamo, but PIO isn't where the problems are coming from.
>
> The Glamo offers normal async memory bus interface which we use, but it
> has a bunch of timing constraints.  (There is a synchronous burst bus
> mode that we don't use because the CPU doesn't support it and adding a
> CPLD in there to translate will eat power and doesn't make sense.)
>
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