Hardware hacking

About custom hardware extensions, see also Kernel interface

Official Hackers Manual

Pandora Hackers Manual v1.01 by MWeston

Pinouts

Here's a list of pinouts for the various connectors and boards.

Here's a pic of the board, some of the pinouts can be seen on it. [1]

Ext Connector

TV cable connector

What does it have?

• UART2
• UART3
• TV out
• Stereo line out
• Stereo line in
• The UART lines can also be used as GPIO (six of them) and PWM lines (four of them).

Where can we get the connectors from?

• The connector appears to be a Tyco Electronics connector, part number 1717169-2
• The manufacturer does *not* stock these for engineering samples, and very few vendors carry them
• Community member WizardStan has ordered a bunch and is selling them at $2 a piece plus shipping from Canada, see here (thread) or here (article)

Battery

• 3.7V
• Lithium polymer single cell battery
• 4000 mAH, 4 AH
• battery cover here: [2]
• reading out battery information: data provided by Battery and Power driver

Internal connections

LCD

• TD043MTEA1 datasheet
• LTPS (8-bit parallel input for R, G and B, with separate horizontal and vertical sync)
• 3.3V?

UART

• UART2 and 3 are available via the EXT connector, and via internal solder pads on the latest revision
  • UART2 appears to support hardware flow control with RTS/CTS lines

GPIO

• 6 are available on the EXT connector
• 7 are internal, 2 of which can be used as extra shoulder buttons
• 1 located on the LCD cable

JTAG

• Yes, 1.8V 10-pin (board label JTAG)

I²C

• One at 1.8V from the OMAP (board label I2C3-1V8)
• One at 2.8V (board label I2C3-2V8)

USB

• No internal USB ports

Keypad backlight

•  ?

Breakout Board

Developer's breakout board

This is the breakout board used by Pandora team members during development. Only a small number were made, and they are not available to the public. However a similar product (or gerber files) may be released in the future. A schematic for this board is available here: http://openpandora.ca/schematic/AV_Board_schematic.pdf