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4 Phone handset firmware, i.e., fw that makes a phone device work as an untethered |
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5 phone and not just a serial-cable-controlled pseudo-modem, requires a few |
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6 additional layers of functionality beyond AT-command-controlled modem fw: |
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8 * The hardware-specific LCD driver, called R2D in TI's TCS211 program; |
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9 * The actual phone UI implementation, which the cellular industry calls by the |
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10 sexist term "MMI" - TI's implementation consists of two components called BMI |
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11 and MFW; |
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12 * Battery management (monitoring and charging); |
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13 * Fairly complex on/off logic to handle all possible combinations of turn-on, |
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14 turn-off, charging while "on", charging while "off", charging completed or |
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15 failed but charging power source not unplugged yet. |
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17 The code we got from TI with the TCS211 delivery by Sotovik includes only a |
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18 very rudimentary implementation of the above functions that basically amounts |
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19 to nothing more than a proof of concept, and is absolutely not ready for driving |
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21 battery management driver officially endorsed by TI for the TCS211 program (LCC |
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22 for "low cost" unregulated chargers) is not appropriate for phones that use |
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23 simple charging circuits and regulated +5 VDC charging power sources (USB or |
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24 Motorola's C1xx charging adapters), and TI's older PWR battery management |
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25 driver (TI totally removed it from TCS211, but we pulled it from the older |
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28 In FreeCalypso we have developed our own battery charging and discharge |
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30 the "voice pseudo-modem" configuration (see the Voice-pseudo-modem article), |
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31 but we still have the problem of the UI, namely, the lack of one that is |
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34 Because TI were in the business of making and selling chipsets rather than |
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35 complete phones, proper phone UI development was something they left to their |
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36 customers, and they provided only a very rough proof of concept implementation. |
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37 One difficulty which we face most immediately in our effort to turn this PoC UI |
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39 desired target display sizes. Because TI apparently did not want to become |
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40 significantly involved in phone UI development, they did not provide a selection |
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41 of UI layouts for different LCD sizes; instead at each given point in TI's |
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43 development platform at each moment had on it. |
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45 At the time of TCS211, TI's primary development platform was called D-Sample; |
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46 it consisted of a development board with the Calypso+Iota chipset on it (as |
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47 well as a GSM RF section based on their older Clara RF transceiver chip) plus |
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48 an attached test handset. Here are some pictures: |
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50 https://www.freecalypso.org/members/falcon/pictures/D-Sample/ |
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52 The handset part of the D-Sample kit contains a 176x220 pixel color LCD, a |
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53 21-button main keypad just like on Mot C1xx and Pirelli DP-L10 phones, and 3 |
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54 side buttons that almost match Pirelli's. This D-Sample was the main |
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55 development platform for the entire TCS211 program (basically everything except |
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56 the small parts specific to Rita RF for which they had their other Leonardo |
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57 development boards), including the UI - the latter was made to target the |
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58 176x220 pix LCD size on the D-Sample. |
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60 I (Mychaela) have managed to obtain one of these historical D-Sample kits (the |
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61 one pictured) back in 2015, and I have a strong desire to get the TCS211 PoC UI |
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62 up and running in its native 176x220 pixel size. However, the big difficulty |
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63 with getting our FC Magnetite firmware running on the original D-Sample board |
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64 (which, remember, is the original and most native hw target for TCS211!) is |
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65 that the D-Sample has Clara RF, not Rita, and we only got a stripped semi-src |
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66 version of TCS211 in which the *.c files for L1 were censored out and only |
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67 *.obj blobs were supplied instead. The latter blobs target Rita RF and not |
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68 Clara. We have now successfully reconstructed the lost C sources for the RF- |
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69 independent and Rita-specific L1 modules, and we have l1_rf10.c for Clara RF |
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70 from the MV100 source fragments, but we are still missing the tpudrv10.c module |
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71 which is also required for Clara RF. |
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73 Back in 2015 (when I first got this D-Sample kit) running our own firmware on |
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74 this historical board with an older version of the Calypso chip and with Clara |
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75 RF was absolutely out of the question, but since then we have made enormous |
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76 progress with our complete deblobbing of L1 and the init module and with our |
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77 FC Magnetite build system, and now that tpudrv10 module is literally the only |
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78 missing piece. Given these new circumstances, I plan on making some serious |
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79 effort to locate the TPU driver code in the ancient 20020917 fw image that came |
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80 with our DS board, and attempt to reconstruct the needed tpudrv10 code from |
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81 that. |
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83 We also have a fallback plan: if we are not able to get our FC Magnetite |
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84 firmware running on the historical TI-made D-Sample board, there is another way |
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86 one that will require a lot of time, effort and expense: design and build our |
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87 own UI development board to take the place of TI's D-Sample, combining the good |
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88 version of the Calypso+Iota+Rita chipset for which we have good fw support with |
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89 a 176x220 pix color LCD of our own - it is one of the industry standard sizes, |
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90 so it should only be a matter of getting a semi-custom one with the right |
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91 interface (16-bit parallel) and the right polarizer orientation (6 o'clock |
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92 viewing direction). The proposed board would be a derivative of our current |
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93 FCDEV3B, keeping the core Calypso+RF block (originally from Openmoko) completely |
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94 unchanged, but adding the LCD, the keypad buttons and other handset peripherals, |
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95 resulting in a Handset Motherboard Prototype - HSMBP. |
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97 Once we get TI's TCS211 UI running in its original 176x220 pixel size like it |
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191 TCS3.2 version of ACI used in the deblobbed hybrid config, and no such feat has |
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