Chapter 2: Hardware

System Hardware

802.11b/g and a/b/g Wireless Client

The MX7 has a 802.11 network card that supports diversity with two internal antennas. The CPU board does not allow hot swapping the network card. Adjusting power management on the network card is set to static dynamic control. WEP, WPA and LEAP are supported.

Central Processing Unit

The CPU is a 400MHz Intel Xscale PXA255 CPU. The operating system is Microsoft® Windows® CE 5. The OS image is stored on an internal SD flash card and is loaded into DRAM for execution. Xscale turbo mode switching is supported and turned on by default.

The MX7 supports the following I/O components of the core logic:

One SD card slot under the main battery pack.

One serial port.

One Digitizer Input port (Touch screen).

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