Sony NW-A808 Port

Sony NW-A808 Port

This is a pre-development, no code is actually written and it is not certain if it is even possible to port the player to Rockbox.

Player Overview

Info about the player can be found here:

http://www.sony.co.uk/view/ShowProductCategory.action?site=odw_en_GB&category=NWS+A+Series

The player is running a modded Linux kernel (2.6.10) on a NEC MP201 Processor, which has an ARM processor in it.

Manuals

User manual:

http://www.rockbox.org/wiki/pub/Main/SonyNWA808Port/2896040141.pdf

Service manual:

http://www.rockbox.org/wiki/pub/Main/SonyNWA808Port/NW-A808.pdf

As seen in the service manual, there are wiring diagrams and description of all components. It also reveals that NWZ and NW series uses the same hardware.

Software overview

http://www.sony.net/Products/Linux/Download/NW-A808_NW-A808_S_NW-A806_NW-A805_20070829.html

Hardware overview

From the service manual the following is found:

SYSTEM CONTROLLER, POWER CONTROL, LCD DRIVER, NAND FLASH INTERFACE, MS INTERFACE, SD-RAM INTERFACE IC601

This is the MP201 from NEC, packaging says MC-10051F1.

http://www.necel.com/application_processor/en/product_mp201_3.html

USB CONTROLLER IC501

This usb controller is the Seiko Epson USB2.0 device/host controller S1R72V17?

http://www.epson.jp/device/semicon_e/product/interface/index.htm#ac03

http://www.rockbox.org/wiki/pub/Main/SonyNWA808Port/S1R72V17_DB.pdf

Little public documentation on this.