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first round of documentation
author Mychaela Falconia <falcon@freecalypso.org>
date Sun, 18 Oct 2020 18:08:15 +0000
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+FreeCalypso Luna phone handset UI development platform consists of these 3
+components:
+
+* A Caramel-type Calypso motherboard, either iWOW DSK or FC Caramel2
+* An LCD carrier board, currently using HaoRan HT020K1QC36S LCD module
+* A 5x5 keyswitch matrix board for the keypad function
+
+This Luna is our primary official platform for FreeCalypso phone handset UI
+development.  The UI code we got from TI comes in two interesting versions:
+
+* Big color version: 176x220 pixels, 16-bit color
+* Small B&W version: originally 84x48 pixels, we are extending it to 96x64 pix
+
+(Originally there was also a third version, large 176x220 pix B&W, but we find
+ it uninteresting and we've removed it from our supported set.  It was really
+ nothing more than a hack to display a minimal-effort derivative of the original
+ small B&W UI on the large D-Sample LCD, so we are not removing anything of any
+ real substance here.)
+
+FC Luna hardware is required for anyone who wishes to work on the phone handset
+UI project in FC Tourmaline: it is the only target platform that can display
+both versions of our work-in-progress UI firmware.  Mot C1xx and other similar
+phones have small LCDs that can only display the small B&W version of our
+TI-based UI, and in the Mother's opinion working solely on the smallbw version
+to the exclusion of the bigcolor version is not acceptable.