 Digikey and Adafruit present This week I on MPI is from Octavo systems All right. All right, so What do they do? I am PI by the way every single week is the latest and greatest the most cutting-edge new product introduction You might learn something, but there's also a place where you can get it and it's from Digikey this week Octavo, Octavo, I don't know Octavo systems Okay, so we're going to go back in time because this week's product on MPI is the OSD 32 MP 157 But to explain this I want to talk about an earlier version of a similar chip. It's the OSD 32 sorry, this is the OSD 32 MP 15x the series and it's Got all these things inside of it We're gonna go back to this image, but I want to talk about the Beagle Boom Black first to explain So the Beagle Boom Black came out a couple of like five years ago And it has this TI sitara processor some RAM It's actually kind of like a pre there was a pre Raspberry Pi Linux board. It was very early and It runs Linux. It's got GPIO and you can connect the TFT to it's got ethernet You can see it's got USB and everything you connect to a hub and it's running embedded Linux and this was really neat and It sort of was one of the first boards that was like you could for a low price and embedded Linux to your project or product There's only one problem is you needed all these chips in like a six or eight layer board because you need this made processor this Cortex A8 The sitara processor you needed some RAM You needed this power management IC that was kind of custom made for it All these passives and you needed to do the routing like kind of perfectly because the chip is running it like about a gigahertz So what our famous systems did is they took all of these parts and They bonded them onto a really small circuit board This is a circuit board of this module on the top left there You see some RAM in like the middle right you see the main processor chip and those are wire bonds It's bonded onto the PCB directly and then the lower left I could get to the power management chip and then you see all the capacitors and like inductors and ferrites and passives that keep this chip nice and happy and all the wiring the complicated wiring especially the the RAM to Microprocessor wiring is all done for you right like all those lines are pre-connected and they're like Perfectly differentially match and all that good stuff and then this little PCB Which is only like you know a two centimeter by two centimeters or so is bonded Sorry epoxy encapsulated and turn into a chip and then you know that chip was then Put here you can see in the center of this pocket beagle so you can pair this pocket beagle to The beagle bump black you see the pocket beagle is like a quarter of the size And there's almost like all the components in the center have been turned into one chip It's this integration that makes it really compact and really easy to build with in fact It's so integrated that you can dead bug a Linux computer using this chip And that's a hack that a paper did to show off just how integrated this is all you need is like literally what likes eight resistors For LEDs to just tell you what boot state you're in and a couple jumper wires And then they wired up a USB connector directly, and this is a booting Linux system And that's pretty amazing like you don't mean anything else and you can just like blue wire hack a Linux computer so if you if you wanted to add Linux to a product or project and you didn't want to go through the eight-layer board like 10 revision Layer you just want to you just want to get the product out there You don't have to worry about all the wiring differentials and like all the boot state, you know straps and all that this OSD 3358 Integrated octavo systems chip would do the job for you very nicely. In fact, they also published. This is the minimal Board layout, I mean it's minimal right and this is a full Linux computer running at a gigahertz And it's pick and place of all and and the BGA is like one millimeter pitch So you you can see that you can route multiple traces through and you can you could probably like etch this board using any low-cost two-layer You probably DIY the PCB if you want to or you could send out to a PCB house. It only cost you a couple bucks Okay, so Now they have a new chip out, which is the OSD 32 MP 157 So sorry, let's go back to this image same deal You got the PCB and inside you've got the ST STM 32 MP 155 x which is got a dual cortex a 7 and I think they're running it up to 800 megahertz and there's a cortex and For it's public some STM 32 f for something something that's wired directly in so you can use it for your real-time control stuff It's got up to a gig of RAM. It's got the crystals. It's got the power management It's got the pass it's got the you know the capacitors or the inductors and it's under two by two centimeters in a one millimeter pitch BGA, so it's like again fairly easy to work with It's not a point five millimeter point four millimeter BGA You don't have to worry about buried or blind via as you could probably use a two-layer board even to put this thing together All right, so this is what they I'm just gonna Say something this is this is like there's a couple movie scenes and in like sci-fi scenes This is I like this chip in particular because it's so futuristic and out there. It's like actually amazing So there is there's a scene in like Terminator 2 judgment day where it's like wow like this chip stuff Like it's from a Terminator brain. Yeah, it's like this This is just like this taught us so many new directions things that we wouldn't have even thought of and then there's a Star Trek next generation episode We're ultimately the person stole something piece of technology from the future But they're like oh, it's a piece of the future. This reminds me this seems like a very futuristic It seems like an NPI So Yeah, so they did this thing with this new, you know micro computer chip from ST Again, it runs Linux. It's got Android support mainline So you can get up and running with it very quickly and you can see they took the PMIC the power management chip top right They got the WAM kind of middle right and then the main processor chip and shrink it all down and not only is it a space reduction But it's just a complexity reduction to worry about You know like doing the schematic capture and lay out for all of these blind over and over again You just drop this chip into your board and you're done Okay, so next up. This is just what's in there's also some e-prom chip You can use like that to store your Mac address or you know, whatever keys you need for for configuration And yeah, it's all completely integrated and then you know, what's actually in it On the left is all the extra parts of the gig of the DDR3 RAM the e-prom the oscillators passives And then on the right you can see what's actually in it So there's the 200 megahertz are on Cortex M4 the dual Cortex a7. It's got like Ethernet. It's got USB Yeah, because there's like a small text when I read it's got it's got dex ADC's it's got You know motor control timers You know open GL supports that's in Linux Mipi DSi and LCD and they got the Display accelerator lots of peripherals I squirts you are spd is so it's like it's got all these really sweet You know microcontroller type accessories, but it's a micro computer So you can you can really make a complicated product or project on could be a really good like a 3d printer driver. I think like is you know, you have the built-in Connectivity stacks and it's got you know timers my squared C's and GPIOs to do motor control So this is also there's a dev board if you want to just sort of get a look of like what what is the minimum set of components you need much like the the dead bug Satara board this one. She you know has a micro SD card on the left It's for your file system. It's got st. Link header Got you or it for you know, you want tops this the serial console We set buttons and LEDs the boot mode switches and the micro USB So yeah, kind of like everything you need to get started and all the GPIO you could want And this is like an oshpark board or something and where can they get it? I'm glad you asked you they are available and in stock right now at digi key So search for OSD 32 MP 157. Oh, but I have a short URL. Oh, you have a short URL Z Z9 DW 0h, but there is folks will put the link in the chat, but here is the product ID Short URL. Yes, and there's a couple versions. I also have yeah, there's a couple versions I didn't tell me all the different probably different amounts of RAM or a different number of GPIO pens But all available and then the dev kit that dev board the purple one is also available. Okay, so yeah, it's gonna be overhead So this is the chip So you can see what you want to zoom in. Yeah, I'm gonna see what I can do here And then I'm gonna try to focus it Yeah, maybe you can think I want it It's picking up the background, but yeah, it's too much too much chip here Try to take the mousepad away. Yeah, and then try to do it that way. Okay. Well, we can see the ball good array There you go I'm gonna back it up. Yeah, I think keep it simple So you can see the ball grid array is a nice large grid so it's really easy to pick in place and then reflow and then round around your wires and You can even kind of see that there's a little PCB and then it's epoxy on top So all in one, you know RAM microcontroller micro processor Everything you need looks like this one has about half a gig of RAM It's probably what the 512m stands for all right. Well blinker comes in. Okay. Yeah I'm sure you could run Python and blink on it. All right, so that's available on digikey and that is