[sane-devel] Canon 8800F IC information

stef stef.dev at free.fr
Sun Feb 14 07:35:06 UTC 2010


Le vendredi 12 février 2010 10:32:52 Gernot Hassenpflug, vous avez écrit :
> Dear all,
> 
> Milan Toman & I opened up our Canon 8800F scanners a few weeks ago and
> tried to find information on the devices contained therein. I will put
> up pictures on my home server on the weekend and post the URL in this
> thread.
> 
> The upshot is there are 4 chips that look interesting. There are a
> PROM and an SDRAM chip, an ASIC and a further chip near the stepper
> motor outputs, descriptions below. The ASIC and SDRAM were identical,
> the PROM different (but same specs), and as for the 4th chip, Milan
> did not get a good look at it yet so we have just the one data point
> from my scanner.
> 
> 1) The SDRAM chip is a Hynix 7V641620ETP-H (27 pins either side: total 54):
> Note 1: 64Mb Synchronous DRAM based on 1M x 4Bank x16 I/O
> Note 2: datasheet available (URL to be posted)
> 
> Inscriptions on chip:
> 
> Hynix 644A  C
> HY57V641620ETP-H
> KOR   NCDK29066
> 
> 
> 2) The PROM chip is either an OKI WR27V1652L (Milan's) or a Spansion
> S29GL016A90TFIR2 (mine) (24 pins either side: total 48):
> Note 1: 1M–Word × 16–Bit or 2M–Word × 8–Bit Page Mode P2ROM
> Note 2: datasheet available (URL to be posted)
> 
> Inscriptions on Milan's chip:
> 
> QKI-3562-01 (<- this appears to be a Canon assembly part number)
> 1.010
> WR27V1652L
> 062TNZ03
> 7465BC7J
> 
> Inscription on my chip:
> 
> Spansion
> S29GL016A90TFIR2
> 733FF616  M
> ©04 SPANSION
> 
> There was a paper stuck on my chip with the following:
> QK1-3553-01 (<- probably a Canon assembly part number)
> 
> Webpage with PDF to full datasheet below. Note the product is obsolete
> as of April
> 2008 and different near-replacement items are available from Spansion.
> http://www.spansion.com/Products/Pages/ProductDetails.aspx?ProdID=S29GL016A
> 
> Extracts from datasheet:
> 16 Mb (boot sector models): 31 31Kword (64 KB) sectors + 8 4Kword (8
> KB) boot sectors.
> 16-Mb device organized as 1,048,576 words or 2,097,152 bytes.
> Depending on the model number, the devices have an 8-bit wide data bus
> only, 16-bit wide data bus only, or a 16-bit wide data bus that can
> also function as an 8-bit wide data bus by using the BYTE# input.
> 
> 3) The ASIC is an NEC chip, the UPD808025F1-611-MNF-A, with "U"
> meaning micro and often written with a micro sign. Looking at the NEC
> electric site did not turn up any device labelled 808025 for me, but
> the UPB80xxxx is an ASIC available in FBGA package (so actually there
> are 26x26=676 pins, of which not all are necessarily used). The ASIC
> product pages turn up something called the CB-90M with a UPD80000 part
> number and fewer pins....
> Note: appears to be sold online but no datasheet could I find.
> 
> Inscription on Milan's chip:
> 
> JAPAN
> 808025-611-A
> QK1-3675 (<-probably Canon assembly part number)
>  0744LU238
> 
> Inscription on my chip:
> 
> JAPAN
> 808025-611-A
> QK1-3675 (<-probably Canon assembly part number)
> 0733LU204
> 
> 
> 4) the Toshiba chip near the stepper motor connection (16 pins each
> edge: total 64):
> Note: appears to be sold online but no datasheet could I find.
> 
> Inscription on my chip:
> 
> Toshiba
> 237FG
> 7UPUP99
> M'SIA
> 
> 
> If anyone can shed light on the unknown chips here, we would be most
> grateful. I was very surprised not to find a known scanner control
> chip inside, and it looks as though the NEC ASIC is a generic chip
> with CPU, memory, etc., rather than a dedicated scanner control chip.
> However, it could well be, only we could not find out anything about
> it yet: it appears to be sold online but none of the places we looked
> had data sheets.
> 
> Best regards,
> Gernot Hassenpflug & Milan Toman
> 
> --
	Hello,

	there is one more data point you can try to get. By using usbsnoop, you could 
try to see if first USB writes send a firmware. If yes, you could try to feed 
it through disassembler to find if it a known micro controller, for instance 
something based on a 8080.

Regards,
	Stef
	
	



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