Currently
there are many equipment with large sizes in the market having similar
functionality. For example, Windows laptop and Windows phone use the same
operating system, but the hardware, circuit board, and chips on a phone are
smaller in size.
If
we could take a photograph of a larger electronic circuit with ID of
those electronic chips, and then use database to search for smaller alternative
circuits/chips, the miniaturizing task would be easier.
2.
Building a huge database
If a chip came with firmware, the
smaller circuit should also support functionality in the firmware.
The operating system is more
complex, but it seems to me that Windows OS is the same for both Windows laptop
and Windows mobile phone.
This
could be done by creating a huge database for
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ID of smaller chips comparable with larger chips. For example,
Intel has made many larger chips (less expensive) for laptop and equivalent smaller
chips (expensive) for a mobile phone. Those equivalent chips are saved in
database.
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Smaller alternative circuit equivalent to a larger circuit. In this case, hardware designers have to come up with designs for
possible equivalent circuit. Those alternative designs would be saved in
database.
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Usually smaller printed circuit would be less resistance,
capacitance, or inductance. System would suggest the additional resistors, inductors,
or capacitors appropriately for a smaller circuit board.
The
issue would be building a database. The hard part would be design of
alternative circuits, and try to match the alternative circuit with other parts
of a system. For example,
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An equivalent smaller microprocessor may have 10 pins, but the
larger microprocessor has 20 pins.
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The data bus would be different between 2 printed circuits
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The hard drive may be different in number of pins for both
circuits
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Etc.
The alternative design would consider those
facts and propose a design to cover the above scenario, i.e. matching printed
circuit or coming up with additional components to bridge the difference.
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