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Inside an Apple iPod Nano

PortalPlayer PP found in iPod is a digital media management chipset. The SuperIntegration System-On-Chip is a complete digital media system featuring dual ARM7TDMI® microprocessors, integrated MAC for high efficiency encoding and decoding, extremely low power consumption, Hi-Speed USB 2.0 with host and device support, and various other system features.

Wolfson Microelectronics is a leading supplier of high performance, mixed-signal integrated circuits for emerging high growth digital consumer electronics markets.   The WM8975 is a low power, high quality codec designed for portable applications.  The device integrates a preamp drivers for speakers, headphone and differential or stereo line output. External component requirements are reduced as no separate microphone or headphone amplifiers are required.  Advanced on-chip digital signal processing includes a 5-band equaliser, a mixed signal Automatic Level Control for the microphone or line input through the ADC as well as a purely digital limiter function for record or playback. Additional digital filtering options are available in the ADC path, to cater for application filtering such as ‘wind noise reduction’.

Samsung 534 (K9WAG08U1M) is a 8G-bit NAND Flash Memory with spare 256M-bit. Its NAND cell provides the most cost effective solution for the solid state application. The Samsung 534 is an optimum solution for large nonvolatile storage applications as a solid state file storage.

inside a nanoWhat is inside:

Portal Player PP5021C-TDF

Wolfson Microelectronics WM8975G

Philips CF50607 PMU (Power Management Unit)

Samsung 534 flash

Silicon Storage Technology 55LD019K Flash

National Semiconductor JM54RM - NAND Gate

SEC 534 BG75 K4M56163PG

16 bit color 176x132 1.5" LCD