Specifications

This page documents features from more engineering point of view. For a more user-centric point of view, see Features.

Major Balthazar parts are:

Power Controller and battery

These supply power to the rest of the system, particularly the System on a Module, USB Hub and Display subsytem. It also manages battery.

It should be capable enough to run some USB connected hardware.

See more: Power Supply

System on a Module (SoM)

This is the main system board, the computer. Boards from different makers should be supported.

Minimum of ports is required for wider compaitibility. These are: Power, USB and HDMI.

See more: System on a Module

I/O USB hub

IO-board basically means connectivity with peripheral devices. These can be seen as on-board and out-board. On-board devices include: keyboard + trackpad, webcam and optional audio-card. USB is the usual solution for this.

For more see our I/O USB page.

Display Controller and panel

Provides interface to display panel by HDMI

Panel slim screen.

Resolution: 1920 x 1080 Aspect Ratio: 16:9 Pixel Pitch(mm): 0.1529 x 0.1529 PPI: 166 Active Area(mm): 294.06 x 165.54 Outline(mm): 299.96 x 186.92 Luminance(nits): 300 View Angle (U/D/R/L): 89/89/89/89 Contrast Ratio: 800:1 Support color: 16.7M Color Depth: 8 bit Color Gamut (NTSC): 72% Response Time(ms): 25 Power consumption: 3.7 Backlight: LED Weight: 170 g Frame Rate: (Hz)60Hz Electrical Interface: DP 1.3 Ultra-slim thickness: 2mm

Keyboard and Touch-pad

See more: Keyboard

Software

Software depends on a System on a Module used.

See more: Software