Hardware documentation

For adding custom extensions see Hardware hacking

General

• Official Hackers Manual (v1.01) from OpenPandora Ltd, includes warnings about damage and warranties (or loss of).

Board

Pandora PCB rev 5

The Pandora is based upon a OMAP3530 System-on-a-chip, that includes a whole family of processors in one single chip:

• ARM Cortex-A8 CPU
• PowerVR SGX graphics core
• C64x+ DSP core

OMAP3530

• OMAP35x: Main page on TI site[1]

• OMAP3530 specific page[2] This lists the features of the chip and has all the applicable Technical Documents

• speficiations

Other OMAP3530 Projects

• Always Innovating Touch Book[3]
• Beagle Board Resources[4] As it uses the same SoC, many BB resources are also relevant for the Pandora.
• Beagle Board Google Group[5]

Cortex-A8

This processor is part of the ARM risc cpu family[6] that is licensed by a lot of hardware vendors. It has multiple command extensions as NEON (similar to MMX for x86 architecture)

• r1p1[7] Note: OMAP3530 uses rev1p2
• UPDATE: r2p2 Documentation [8] Note: OMAP3530 uses rev1p2
• NEON instruction set [9]
• NEON memory hazards[10]

PowerVR

• Official site
  • OpenGL ES 2.0, several million polygons per second.
  • OpenGL ES demonstrated
  • OpenGL ES 1.1 Tutorial

C64x+

Digital signal processors allow to do complex calculations within only a few cycles

• CPU and Instruction Set Reference Guide[11]
• TMS320C6000 Assembly Language Tools v 6.0 Beta User's Guide[12]
• TMS320C6000 Optimizing Compiler v 6.0 Beta User's Guide[13]
• TMS320C6000 Programmer's Guide[14]

TPS65950 power IC

• Main page on TI site[15]

Display

• Screen datasheet (TD043MTEA1)[16] The Pandora uses the display from the Archos 605 Media Player. However, on the Archos LCD the pinout is reversed as well as the cable having a 45 degree angle which would make it fail to line up with the Pandora LCD cable in the lid. --[17]

Status LEDs

Meaning of the LEDs from left to right according to gfrancisdev.

Left LED group

• SD card 1
• SD card 2
• Wifi
• Bluetooth

Right LED group

• Empty (with solder pad for hardware hackers who want to use an additional LED)
• Empty (-"-)
• Charging
• Power

Input

Keyboard

Keyboard Matrix Diagram (Courtesy of Neelix)

• The keyboard is listed on p.20 of the hackers manual, and a more readable version is shown here.

Touchscreen

• TSC2046: ADS7846 compatible touch screen controller[18]

See also

• Nubs
• Purple Tint of Death (due to LCD cables)
• Hardware Hacking EXT Connectors and other info