Amy Overmyer wrote: >> Lastly, are there any other IC components on the back or front of the >> PCB ? Can you provide pics (upload them to the wiki article)) ? >> > > The back only has a couple components, probably for electrical, no ICs. > okay > The > front only has the cypress (100 pin pkg) chip and the NIM, with a > couple small components, that I can't read what they are. The PCB is > stamped osc by one of them and usbid on the other, so I'm guessing one > is an oscillator and the other the PROM where the cold USB id is stored. > okay. I rather imagine that your guesses are correct > I > opened up the NIM (hey, they're $30 at my local computer store right > now, so even if I kill it, I have an extra), and I saw my old friend > the BCM3510 (I have a 1rst gen air2pc pci card that works pretty well > for me) Wow, I'm kind of surprised about that one -- I would have expected the NIM to have been a little more contemporary (given that I believe these devices (150/151/3560) came out in the ~2005 time frame). > and a smaller chip marked tua6030 (or could be 6080, the > writing is faint, but infineon doesn't look like they make an 6080). > Yes, that would be 6030 > I have photos but need to upload them. > okay This device might also be close in design to the original Technisat Air2PC-ATSC-USB device (http://www.linuxtv.org/wiki/index.php/TechniSat_Air2PC-ATSC-USB) -- though, obviously it doesn't use a Flexcop controller ... I say might be, as I don't know what the USB bridge is in the Technisat device, nor the exact tuner module employed. Patrick might recall though -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-media" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
