I have recently got a Pinnacle Showcenter SC1000 as a gift from one of my friends.

The peripherials made me intrested, so I have disassembled it to check the internals:

It features the following stuff:
- Sigma Designs EM8551 Soc (datasheet here)
- RJ45 ethernet connector powered by an Davicom DM9000E
- 2 * 8 MB RAM ARC4X16S4K3VF-55
- 2 * 2 MB Flash AM29LV160DB
- 8 MB RAM dedicated for the MPEG codec
- wide range of video output connectors (SCART, SVideo) unfortunatelly nothigng high definition
- PCMCIA slot
- an unpopulated IDE connector
- two fully featured unpopulated serial ports
- and an unpopulated 20 pin header. At first I would bet that it is a JTAG connector, but it isn't.

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I have generated a pinout map for the Sigma Designs EM85XX family SOC:
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To compile a single package induvidually from the feeds run:


make package/feeds/packages/<PACKAGE_NAME>-compile V=99


Today building the daily OpenWRT snapshot for my NSLU2 failed with an error:


../include/obstack.h:153: error: attempt to use poisoned "bcopy"


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I have managed to get a Towardpro MG946R servo like this:
http://www.hobbyking.com/hobbycity/stor ... oduct=6222

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