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The venerable Crystal Semiconductor
CS8900A provides 10
megabit ethernet support. HomePNA support is provided via a chipset
from BroadCom. The
BCM4210 provides the
MAC (Media Access Control) and PHY (physical layer) for the HomePNA network
interface. The
BCM4100 provides
the analog front-end for HomePNA. The
Micron
MT48LC4M16A2
is a 64Mbit (8 Megabyte) 16-bit SDRAM chip, and there are two of them on the board.
Note the set of empty pads. These pads are for a higher density part than
the two 64Mbit SDRAM chips. It's likely that they are for a
MT48LC4M32B2
128Mbit (16 Megabyte) 32-bit SDRAM chip. Depending on how the addressing is
handled on the board, it might be possible to add an additional part to
increase the total system RAM to 32 Megabytes. However, it is perhaps more
likely that this was meant as an option for manufacturing, designed with the
parts shortages the industry was experiencing at the time of design.
Manufacturing could choose to stuff either the two 64Mbit parts, or the one
128Mbit part, depending on whichever was cheaper or more available.
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Just in case there was any doubt about which operating system runs on
the AudioTron. Those grayed out areas were Microsoft serial numbers.
I didn't feel like having anything traced back to my mother's maiden shoe
size, so you get gray bars. :) Note under the sticker, pads for what is
probably an addition flash ROM chip.
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There are two headers on the main board which are not connected to anything.
It's quite likely that these are debug headers (perhaps an asynch serial
port, and quite likely a JTAG port) and/or expansion headers.
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The power supply section of the mainboard, and the off-board transformer and
EMI filter. The transformer delivers AC to the mainboard where it's
full-wave rectified and smoothed with the large capacitor at the top of the
photo. The National Semiconductor
LM2598-3.3 is a 3.3V
1A simple switcher.
It's likely that L5, D4, and the capacitors next to U9
are for the 3.3V supply. It seems there's another switching supply nearer
the top of the board, comprised of L4, U7, D1, and the capacitors near U7.
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Voyetra, Turtle Beach, AudioTron, and likely a whole bunch of
other things are probably trademarks of their respective owners. I do not
try to lay claim to any of them!
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