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H/W Design Partition Continued - Example: A Cellphone.
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Cellphone Physical components:
-  Display (touch sensitive) + Keypad + Misc buttons
-  Audio ringers and speakers, microphone(s) (noise cancelling),  
-  Infra-red IRDA port
-  Multi-media codecs (A/V capture and replay in several formats)
-  Radio Interfaces: GSM (three bands), BlueTooth, 802.11.
-  Power Management: Battery Control, Processor Speed, on/off/flight modes.
-  Camera,
-  Memory card slot,
-  Physical connectors: USB, Power, Headset,
-  Java VM and operating system.