Chapter 2: Hardware; System Hardware; 802.11 B/G And A/B/G Wireless Client; Central Processing Unit - Honeywell MX8 Reference Manual

Chapter 2: Hardware

System Hardware

802.11 b/g and a/b/g Wireless Client

The MX8 has an 802.11 network card that supports diversity with two internal antennas. The CPU board does not allow hot
swapping the network card. Adjusting power management on the network card is set to static dynamic control. WEP, WPA
and LEAP are supported.

Central Processing Unit

The CPU is a 520MHz Marvell Xscale PXA-27X CPU. The operating system is Microsoft® Windows® Mobile® 6.1. The OS
image is stored on an internal flash memory card and is loaded into DRAM for execution.
The MX8 supports the following I/O components of the core logic:
One mini SD card slot under the main battery pack.
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One serial port.
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One Digitizer Input port (touch screen).
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System Memory

The CPU configuration supports 128MB Strata Flash, 128MB SDRAM. The system optimizes for the amount of SDRAM
available.
Internal flash is used for boot loader code and system low-level diagnostics code. Bootloader code is validated at system
startup. The UUID required by CE 5.0 is stored in the boot flash. A second copy of the bootloader code is stored on the internal
SD Flash drive, so that if a damaged bootloader is detected, it may be re-flashed correctly.

Internal Mini SD Memory Card

The MX8 has one mini SD card interface for storage for User data. The mini SD slot is accessible from the battery
compartment and ships with a qualified 128MB Mini SD Flash card.
The internal mini SD flash card supports a FAT16 file system, using a special device driver, and appears to the OS as a folder.
This allows the contents to be manipulated using the standard Windows CE interface.
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