Hardware

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Radio's

The Barracuda is used in the the following radios:

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Hardware Matrix

The radios contain slightly different internal hardware architectures, including different LCDs, Keypads and some different pin connections on the Barracuda module. A Hardware Matrix showing the differences, plus datasheets for the hardware has been compiled.

Barracuda hardware

The Barracuda module is a pretty straightforward, but very compact, board with CPU, flash, ram and some interfacing for audio, buttons and LCD display

Front of the PCB
Back of the PCB
Board outline with numbered pins including JTAG
Connector pinout, under construction
Composite image showing top and bottom layers

The Processor board is marked 'Reciva' and 'IRM2' in the silk screen, and contains (mainly) three devices, all manufactured by Samsung.

The right image shows a board outline with pin numbers on the pads. These numbers are by no means official, but until we know the exact purpose of the pins, it's handy to give them a number so everybody is talking about the same thing.

Diagnostics

Diagnostic Captures have been taken to diagnose:

Main CPU

The CPU has the following on-board functions:

  • ARM920T core
  • PCM Sound device
  • USB host/device interface
  • TFT LCD/STN LCD Controller (16bit, 640x480 maximum)
  • JTAG Port
  • ...

Smally Tiny12 CPU

There's also an Atmel Tiny12L MCU onboard. No idea what it's doing yet.

Flash

  • The top left device is a K9F2808U0C: 16Mb*8 flash memory

RAM

Schematic

This schematic (work in progress) is an amalgumation of information extracted from several disassembled radios, plus information extracted from the GPL'd source.

Source Data

Source files (schematic, drawings, etc...) can be found on the [Source Files] page.