User's Manual

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Preface PDK User’s Guide Provided Under NDA
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Section 1. Introduction
1.1 Abstract
The NVIDIA
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Preface Personal Media Display (PMD) product suite adds new capabilities to
notebook and desktop computers and range of other applications, including appliances,
picture frames, luggage, and wearable displays. The design employs an NVIDIA system-on-
chip (SoC) controller with AS3514 integrated audio codec, and low-drop-out switching
regulators supplying power to a dual, symmetric ARM7-based, core. The design
incorporates product and firmware development environment, signal validation, lot
testing, and manufacturing considerations.
The NVIDIA® Preface™ product suite provides the premier platform for Windows Vista
Sideshow, containing the NVIDIA CPU, memory, flash, USB and Bluetooth components
needed to implement Microsoft VISTA-compatible devices.
Preface is a fully qualified and certified solution on a small 1-inch x1.2-inch PCB.
This Guide describes the Product Development Kits (PDKs) that facilitate the design and
integration of PMD systems into target systems.
1.2 Functional Overview
This Guide describes three PDKs used to integrate Preface PMDs into target systems. These
kits include hardware and firmware targeted to various development activities. (For a
complete list of PDK contents, see Section 1.3 on page 4.) The hardware provides an
integrated platform for developing digital audio/video players. Firmware is available for a
variety of development activities and applications.
The PMD hardware is powered by the host computer’s battery, and therefore does not
require a separate power cable for the PMD, enabling the PMD to continue to access the
data in the host computer long after the battery stops powering the primary operating
system and/or displaying the primary LCD.
1.2.1 Features and Benefits
The Preface PMD platform enables quick startup to access data in the host computer using
the low-power PMD display instead of the notebook’s primary display, thereby saving
power while cutting time to boot the main operating system. Data transfer from the
notebook is through USB.
The Preface PMD platform offers the following benefits:
• Always on display and user interface
• Instant access to applications, gadget data and media content
• Hundreds of hours of battery life for music playback on notebooks
•Customer visible product differentiation
• Microsoft SideShow gadget technologies and built-in multimedia capability. For details
see Section 1.2.5 on page 3 and the following Web page:
www.microsoft.com/windowsvista/features/foreveryone/sideshow.mspx
• Alarm function