ANN: GTA04A2 engineering sample is now running Linux / will be shown at LinuxTag

Thomas HOCEDEZ thomas.hocedez at free.fr
Thu Apr 21 08:57:58 CEST 2011


The time is near my friend ! The time is near !

(it's a really good news though!)



On Wed, 20 Apr 2011 23:09:44 +0200
Dr. H. Nikolaus Schaller <hns at goldelico.com> wrote:

> Dear all,
> 
> after all the previous announcements that were certainly not
> encouraging and making everybody happy, I have this time really good
> news. And hope that there are only good news to report in the
> future...
> 
> We have finally found a way to patch the power supply issue of our
> first engineering sample board and are since this morning able to
> boot Linux and demonstrate LXDE on Debian. We will present this
> unique unit during LinuxTag on 11-14th May in Berlin. So please come!
> 
> This power supply hack was to solder an additional 1.2V LDO chip
> (TPS73601DCQ) to give the CPU more supply power [1]. Apparently this
> is sufficient to solve the spurious shutdown issue, which was coming
> from a very suboptimal PCB layout of our engineering board.
> 
> Anyway, the new GTA04A3 boards (which are already in production) have
> a heavily improved board layout so that I expect that they will never
> show this problem and are much more robust. After knowing how much
> the layout can and should be improved, I am still surprised that
> hacking the hardware with a 2 € LDO chip was a sufficient
> work-around...
> 
> Here is finally a brand new video showing the device in (battery!)
> operation: [2]
> 
> So we are looking forward to get the new GTA04A3 boards from SMD
> assembly (in approx. 4 weeks), connecting a display, inserting a SD
> card and a battery ...
> 
> Happy easter time to everyone,
> Nikolaus Schaller
> 
> 
> [1]: http://download.goldelico.com/gta04/images/DSC00784.jpeg
> [2]: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3KnJc7eImQ4
> 
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