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Explore the PCB
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Now let's see what kinds of ICs are being used:
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Nordic nRF51422 low power RF SoC. Used for Bluetooth LE.
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Cypress CY8C20767capacitive touch controller.
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Maxim 14676B wearable charge management IC.
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Assumed to be an ARM Cortex-M microcontroller. Freescale, the manufacturer, is no longer in business, as it was purchased by NXP recently - this makes it hard to look up the marking.
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There are all kinds of test points visible on the back. Garmin must do a pretty thorough QA.
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Looking side-on, you can see that the flex circuitry is sandwiched between two sets of rigid PCB.
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