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The latest
TI-84 Plus gives an unmatched contrast of the pixels and a crystal clear view. |
The screen
of the TI-84 Plus Silver Edition is identical, only the color of the housing changed. |
The TI-89
Titanium sports much more pixels in the rows and columns compared to the TI-84 Plus series. |
The new TI-84 Plus
integrated not only the Z80 microprocessor but also the RAM and USB logic into an ASIC. The LCD-driver is now integrated on the main PCB. |
The new TI-84 Plus
Silver
Edition makes use of an identical PCB like its smaller sibling TI-84 Plus but sports a Flash ROM of 2M Bytes instead the 1M Bytes chip. |
The new TI-89
Titanium is centered around an ASIC, too. Nevertheless is the architecture totally different, one of the chips on the printed circuit board is a standard MC68EC000 32-bit microcomputer. |
The TI-84 Plus ASIC in 2004: | The TI-84 Plus Silver Edition ASIC in 2004: | The TI-89 Titanium ASIC in 2004: |
The TI-84 Plus with the "TA3" ASIC in 2005. |
The TI-84 Plus S.E. with the "TA3" ASIC in 2007. |
The TI-89 Titanium with the "-0003" ASIC in 2007. |
The TI-84 Plus with the smaller "TA1" ASIC in 2008. |
The TI-84 Plus S.E. with the smaller "TA1" ASIC in 2008. |
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The Toshiba display driver
of the TI-84 Plus in a small chip-on-board housing mounted on a small PCB: |
The Toshiba display driver
of the TI-84 Plus Silver Edition is identical (The position of some tape differs only). |
The huge
screen of the TI-89 Titanium makes use of the two Sharp chip-on-board display drivers known from the TI-89. |
The Novatek display driver
of the TI-84 Plus |
The Novatek display
driver
of the TI-84 Plus Silver Edition found in calculators manufactured mid 2008. |
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© Joerg Woerner, June 27, 2004. No reprints without written permission.