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first round of documentation
author | Mychaela Falconia <falcon@freecalypso.org> |
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date | Sun, 18 Oct 2020 18:08:15 +0000 |
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--- /dev/null Thu Jan 01 00:00:00 1970 +0000 +++ b/doc/Luna-notes Sun Oct 18 18:08:15 2020 +0000 @@ -0,0 +1,25 @@ +FreeCalypso Luna phone handset UI development platform consists of these 3 +components: + +* A Caramel-type Calypso motherboard, either iWOW DSK or FC Caramel2 +* An LCD carrier board, currently using HaoRan HT020K1QC36S LCD module +* A 5x5 keyswitch matrix board for the keypad function + +This Luna is our primary official platform for FreeCalypso phone handset UI +development. The UI code we got from TI comes in two interesting versions: + +* Big color version: 176x220 pixels, 16-bit color +* Small B&W version: originally 84x48 pixels, we are extending it to 96x64 pix + +(Originally there was also a third version, large 176x220 pix B&W, but we find + it uninteresting and we've removed it from our supported set. It was really + nothing more than a hack to display a minimal-effort derivative of the original + small B&W UI on the large D-Sample LCD, so we are not removing anything of any + real substance here.) + +FC Luna hardware is required for anyone who wishes to work on the phone handset +UI project in FC Tourmaline: it is the only target platform that can display +both versions of our work-in-progress UI firmware. Mot C1xx and other similar +phones have small LCDs that can only display the small B&W version of our +TI-based UI, and in the Mother's opinion working solely on the smallbw version +to the exclusion of the bigcolor version is not acceptable.