I think it was IBM who just kind of punted and were selling a PDA with
an FPGA built into it. That sounded like a cool idea to me... Listening
to music? Set up a hardware mp3 decoder. Watching a video? Set up a
hardware mp4 decoder. Add some AtoD and an antenna and I think you can
do SDR fairly easily. Not to mention a bunch of the research around
making FPGAs self-optimize based on what software they're running (think
Hotspot, but in hardware).
On a more prosaic note, external access to microSD cards (two would be
nice) would be nice. Or even just one internal, one external, cut back
on the amount of internal flash, and boot/run off the internal microSD.
And of course more RAM (everything's faster with RAM) would be nice -
though if we can't have a socket for an SO-DIMM, can we consider using
lower-power (I think) SRAM instead of SDRAM?
Stick with mini-USB; I hear China mandated it, and it's nice and
standard anyway, so that's a good choice. Plus your customers have some
investment in chargers & cables. Or go micro-USB - half the height,
otherwise fairly similar. And still standardish. Maybe add another
port so there's one dedicated host and one dedicated gadget port.
Temperature sensors? Proximity sensors? Light sensors? Simple A/D
contact surfaces would be interesting.
Just more brainstorming for your enjoyment - I'm sure this has mostly
been thought of before.
--pj
Joerg Reisenweber wrote:
Am Di 8. Juli 2008 schrieb Jay Vaughan:
if it's a multi-core
SOC... now we are talking.
Would, indeed, be seriously nice to talk about this for gta03/04/05/..
For GTA03 the features list is pretty much closed by now. 04 that's a
different thing.
"03 is about evolution. 04 is about revolution"
/jOERG
