Mobile Hardware and Softwares by: Mehmood Riaz

RAP3G

RAP3G is a 3G Radio Application Processor
Successor for TIKU (used in NOKIA 7600) with some technical improvements and additional features
In general RAP3G consists of three separate parts:
Processor subsystem (PSS) that includes ARM926 MCU as a main processor, Lead3 PH3 DSP and related functions
MCU peripherals
DSP peripherals
RAP3G is running with NOS and takes care of all cellular modem activities
RAP3G core voltage (1.40V) is generated from TAHVO VCORE and I/O voltage (1.8V) is from RETU VIO. Core voltage in sleep mode is lowered to 1.05V

RETU

RETU is the primary EM ASIC including following functional blocks:
Start up logic and reset control
Charger detection
Battery voltage monitoring
32.768kHz clock with external crystal
Real time clock with external backup battery
SIM card interface
Stereo audio codecs and amplifiers
A/D converter
Regulators
Vibra interface
Digital interface (CBUS)
RETU ASIC does not include security functions such as UEM(E,K)

TAHVO

TAHVO is the secondary EM ASIC including following functional blocks:
Core supply generation (VCORE & VCOREA)
Charge control circuitry
Level shifter and regulator for USB/FBUS
Current gauge for battery current measuring
External LED driver control interface
Digital interface (CBUS)
TAHVO ASIC does not include security functions such as UEM(E,K)

CMT Flash
CMT Flash memory is used to store:
MCU program code
DSP program code
Tuning values
Certificates
Capacity: 64Mbit
Logic and supply voltage for NOR Flash is supplied from VIO (1.8V)
Flash clock is 48MHz (192MHz/4)

CMT SDRAM

CMT SDRAM is mainly used as a dynamic data storage for MCU data
Capacity: 64MBit
SDRAM core voltage (1.8V) is generated by RETU’s VDRAM regulator
I/O voltage (1.8V) is generated by RETU’s VIO regulator
SDRAM clock is 96MHz (192MHz/2)

OMAP 1710

OMAP is the application processor running with Symbian operating system (EPOC)
Platform for executing all user related application. Main interfaces:
Camera interface
Display interface
Bluetooth interface
MMC interface
USB interface
Keyboard interface
X-Bus for communication with RAP3G
OMAP is a standard ASIC designed by Texas Instruments and used also by other manufacturers of mobile phones and handheld PCs
Core voltage VCORE=1.4V is generated by discrete SMPS, and is lowered to 1.09V in sleep mode
I/O voltage VIO=1.8V is generated by RETU

APE Combo Memory
APE Flash is used to store application code and user data
It is not possible to execute code directly from Flash -> executables need first to be loaded to DDR and run from there
Capacity: 256Mbit (Flash), 256Mbit (DDR)
Core voltage for DDR is VDRAM 1.8V
VIO 1.8V is for DDR I/O voltage
Both NAND core and I/O voltages are generated by RETU
DDR clock is 110MHz (220MHz/2)
Flash interface speed is 22MHz


Product Specific Circuitries

Front Camera
The front camera is controlled and its data is collected by OMAP
The I/O voltage of OMAP is 1.8V, and the one of the camera is 2.8V; therefore a level shifter is needed
The camera is powered with two different voltages from LDO (Low-dropout voltage) regulators:
VCAM 1.5V for camera digital circuits, and sensor A/D-converter
VCAM2 2.8V for camera I/O, and sensor photo diode