The Orion project, mentioned in another post here, has video output capabilities like the Nokia N900 and other smart phones using the TI OMAP35xx series processors. These chips have dual 10 bit D/A converters for generating analog video signals, either in S-Video format (separate luminance and chrominance) or composite NTSC or PAL analog signals. Video […]
LevelStar LLC’s Orion Braille enabled portable computing device was named one of the 16 coolest demos at Google I/O 2011. Read the whole article here. The Orion entry is here. The Orion contains 2 PCB’s and 3 flex circuits, all designed with CADSTAR. The main board is 8 layers, employing fine line design, blind and […]
Since Google was of no help to me in my latest project, I had to create a CADSTAR library component for the Texas Instruments OMAP3530 CPU chip. The package is the CBB type, the 0.4mm BGA version used on the Beagleboard. I’ve checked this over a couple of times but there could still be problems- […]