Friday, March 4, 2011

Nintendo 3DS disassembled by iFixit

iFixit has disassembled the Nintendo 3DS. We discover the actors involved in the construction of the portable console. The first thing we find is a 3.7 V battery, 1300 mAh, 5 Wh lithium ion batteries. Autonomy would be only 5 to 8 hours playing a DS game and a classic full recharge takes 3 hours. This is largely due to the faster processor and two screens required for the stereoscopic effect.

The Wi-Fi module is signed Atheros. This is the AR6014 supports b and g. It is unfortunate that Nintendo does not support Wi-Fi No 3DS while Nintendo is expected to remain on the market for many years. The processor uses a Nintendo 3DS 1948 0H built on ARM architecture, the Flash memory from Toshiba and a gyroscope manufactured by Invensense (ITG-3270).

We obviously did not see the graphics processor as it is integrated SoC. This is a circuit that is emerging from a Japanese company called DMP (Digital Media Professionals) and is inspired by his PICA200 introduced in 2006. Finally, there are chips from Texas Instruments and Fujitsu, whose function remains uncertain.

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