Okay. So I’m used to working with large amounts of information at once, even before AI, and this is a good overview of the current status of the project mapping for clarity. It was a higher dimensional geometric manifold concept OS, but since the integration of biophoton modeling (see assets/docs/biophoton_research.md) has evolved into a functional operating system mapped onto Android as a Subspace Middleware Architecture between hardware and software, or put another way is a metabolic interception matrix over the nativeAOSP environment. I appreciate the feedback on this project moving forward.
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The current Cell OS implementation is a React + Vite single-page web application
(SPA). It is a visualization, exploration, and documentation tool that models the
Cell OS conceptual architecture in a browser. It runs on any device with a modern
browser — including the Fairphone 5 — but it does not currently intercept AOSP
Binder IPC traffic, run as a privileged system daemon, call sched_setaffinity() or
set SCHED_FIFO kernel priorities, route tasks into Android WorkManager, or modify
the Linux scheduler or CPU core affinity.
The sections below describe the architectural design blueprint — what a native
Android implementation of Cell OS would do once built. The TypeScript/React codebase
gives that blueprint its precise mathematical grounding: 18 canonical biophoton
links (7 required P-series pathways plus 11 additional organelle-to-organelle
links), 39 qi-intersections, a σ-weighted attention tensor, and four integrity
invariants. Translating that blueprint into a running on-device middleware layer
requires a separate native Android implementation (see Section VI).
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PART 1 — WHAT MAKES CELL OS A FUNCTIONAL ARCHITECTURE
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Cell OS subspace middleware is an architectural blueprint for an autonomous
middleware resource governor. In a native implementation it would monitor IPC
traffic patterns, detect localised failures, and reroute data through alternative
pathways. What elevates it from metaphor to a specification-ready layer is its
transition from descriptive analogy into a highly deterministic, programmatic
control architecture grounded in the physical constraints of ultra-weak photon
emission (UPE) and real-world computing primitives.
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0. The Three-Layer Model
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The SPA implements three stacked conceptual layers:
Zone Layer — 8 navigation zones in traversal order:
nucleus → cytoplasm → cytoskeleton → ribosomes →
mitochondria → golgi → endoplasmic-reticulum → membrane
Source: CellShellProvider.tsx (CELL_ZONES registry)
Organelle Layer — 15 granular biological structures, each mapped one-to-one
to a real Android OS feature or Fairphone 5 hardware role.
Source: domain/content/organelles.ts (CELL_MAPPINGS)
Substrate Layer — 17 real FP5 hardware and Android software nodes, each
carrying a ClaimConfidence tag.
Source: domain/content/substrate.ts (SUBSTRATE_NODES)
Cross-links between organelles and substrate nodes are defined once in
domain/content/mappings.ts and derived in both directions by selectors.ts.
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- Hard Biophysical Quantification over Conceptual Analogy
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In a conceptual OS, terms like “mitochondria” or “nucleus” are merely artistic
renamings of system services or databases. In Cell OS these entities are explicitly
bound to real-world, measurable physical limits.
Data-Driven Core Parameters: The system state engine is calibrated against
quantitative biological emission rates — resting baselines of 1–10 ph/s/cm² up to
hyperactive stress surges of 10,000 ph/s/cm² (whole-cell maximum) — and specific molecular wavelengths
spanning 200–1300 nm, drawn from the peer-reviewed biophoton literature
(Popp et al., 1974–2010; Pietruszka & Marzec 2024).
The Attention Tensor: The codebase maps exactly 18 canonical BIOPHOTON_LINKS and
39 QI_INTERSECTIONS within its TypeScript domain layer (39 of a possible 264
zone × phase × scale coordinates). Execution importance is dynamically calculated
via a σ-weighted tensor rather than subjective priority rules.
Confidence-Bounded Weighting — four confidence labels:
• verified: σ ≥ 0.75 — pathway confirmed in peer-reviewed literature
• indicative: σ 0.50–0.75 — for biophoton claims: mechanistically coherent,
peer-reviewed, not yet independently replicated;
for hardware/substrate claims: vendor-declared or
reasonable estimate, not independently confirmed
• speculative: σ 0.30–0.50 — physically plausible, indirect support only
• unconfirmed: σ 0.30–0.50 — same σ range as speculative, but evidence is
insufficient or contradictory (no supporting
literature at all); used in DATA_CONTRACT.md as a
stricter quality flag than speculative
All four labels are enforced by invariant 4 of the integrity test suite. As a
concrete example, P1 (mitochondria->nucleus) carries σ = 0.65, placing it in the
indicative tier — a well-grounded but not fully verified pathway.
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2. A Low-Level IPC Mapping Engine (The Directed Execution Graph)
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The architectural design translates biological signaling routes (P1 through P7) into
native Linux kernel and AOSP mechanisms. These seven are the required pathways
enforced by integrity invariant 2; they live inside an 18-edge biophoton graph
that also includes 11 additional organelle-to-organelle links (e.g.
nucleus->ribosomes, ER->golgi, vesicles->cell-membrane). The P-series canonical
source->target directions, with full metadata:
P1: mitochondria → nucleus
band=NIR (700–900 nm) σ=0.65 indicative ipc=binder
Retrograde; ROS burst reports to kernel power governor without blocking
P2: endoplasmic-reticulum → mitochondria
band=red (570–670 nm) σ=0.55 indicative ipc=messenger
MAM Ca²⁺/ROS at 10–25 nm mitochondria-associated membrane contact site
P3: cell-membrane → membrane-receptors
band=red (570–670 nm) σ=0.80 verified ipc=unordered-broadcast
Verified bystander UPE 600–900 nm; most replicated functional biophoton pathway
(biological window spans red into NIR; stored as “red” in BiophotonLink code)
P4: nucleus → cytoplasm
band=UV (200–380 nm) σ=0.35 speculative ipc=ordered-broadcast
UV tautomeric emission; transmitter confirmed, cytoplasmic reception undemonstrated
P5: cytoskeleton → mitochondria
band=NIR (700–900 nm) σ=0.60 indicative ipc=binder
Microtubule waveguide (lumen 14 nm, n≈1.46 vs cytoplasm n≈1.35)
P6: cell-membrane → nucleus
band=blue-green (450–550 nm) σ=0.60 indicative ipc=binder
Hardirq → Ca²⁺/CREB signaling → gene expression
(ipc=binder is the stored code enum; the full biological/Android route is
hardirq → IRQ thread → syscall → kernel supervisor)
P7: mitochondria → mitochondria
band=red (570–670 nm) σ=0.65 indicative ipc=messenger
Lateral ΔΨm oscillation sync; single 2023 experiment (PMC10560087),
not yet independently replicated — σ=0.65 reflects indicative cap
Asynchronous Unclogged Telemetry (P1): Mitochondrial retrograde signaling
specifies system-wide metabolic stress telemetry built as a non-blocking oneway
Binder IPC transaction via /dev/binder. Because the calling thread never blocks,
this is designed to prevent thread-pool starvation across low-level drivers.
The NPU analogue: the Hexagon 770’s INT8 token burst has the same oxidative-burst
kinetics — workload spike, followed immediately by a thermal/power retrograde signal
(P1) to the kernel power governor (nucleus).
Decoupled System-Wide Broadcasts (P3): Cell-membrane->membrane-receptors bystander
signaling, the most firmly established functional biophoton pathway in the current
literature (replicated independently across multiple labs, 2013–2024), maps to
unordered-broadcast Intents — a decentralised macro-coordination bus across
separate daemon processes. The FP5 analogue is the Project Treble double boundary
(/system<->/vendor wall enforced at AIDL level, sealed by SELinux type-enforcement
rules): crossing a well-defined enforced boundary with a broadcast signal is what
both biology and Android’s Broadcast Intent system do.
Isolated Traffic Pipelines (P5): Cytoskeleton->mitochondria microtubule optical
waveguiding (lumen 14 nm, refractive index n≈1.46 vs cytoplasm n≈1.35) maps to
route-specific dedicated Binder thread pools. By pinning NIR-band data transmission
to specific channels based on the target organelle node, it is designed to reduce
system bus flooding, context switching, and cache thrashing across CPU core clusters.
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3. Wavelength-Driven Kernel Thread Scheduling (Hardware QoS Blueprint)
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The spectral identity of a biological packet acts as a direct command for native
thread urgency. The type system defines five wavelength bands; all five map to
explicit Android thread priority tiers and IPC channels:
UV (200–380 nm): THREAD_PRIORITY_URGENT_DISPLAY — high-priority Binder
DNA tautomeric transitions (nucleus) — highest privilege,
lowest rate; emergency nuclear preservation events.
Blue-green (450–550 nm): THREAD_PRIORITY_FOREGROUND — normal Binder
Triplet carbonyl / Russell mechanism termination —
reliable mid-tier foreground execution.
Note: types.ts type comment gives 400–550 nm; the spectral
map (FP5_DEVELOPER_BRIEF §5) uses 450–550 nm. This document
follows the spectral map.
Red (634–703 nm): THREAD_PRIORITY_DEFAULT — Binder pool
Russell mechanism singlet O₂ dimol peaks at 634/703 nm;
mitochondrial broad emission band 570–670 nm (peak ~620 nm).
Default execution priority.
NIR (700–1,000 nm): THREAD_PRIORITY_BACKGROUND — Broadcast Intent
Biological window for tissue-propagating cell-to-cell
signals; background priority, not queued for WorkManager.
Note: BiophotonLink type (types.ts) defines NIR = 700–900 nm;
the spectral scheduler uses the broader biological window
700–1,000 nm (FP5_DEVELOPER_BRIEF §5).
Deep-NIR (900–1,400 nm, THREAD_PRIORITY_LOWEST — AOSP WorkManager background queue
singlet O₂ peak 1,270 nm): Long-term ambient metabolic monitoring — deprioritised
and batched. The 1,270 nm singlet oxygen monomol peak
distinguishes deep-NIR from NIR (700–900 nm).
Note on SCHED_FIFO/SCHED_RR: these Linux scheduler policies are the native
implementation target for UV-band urgency; they are not set by the current React SPA
and require the privileged system daemon described in Section VI.
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4. The Perception → Affect → Expression Triadic Model (P->A->E)
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Every signal flowing through Cell OS passes through three phases, visualised in
the P->A->E flow diagram (cell-os-pae-flow.html):
PERCEPTION (門 — The Door): what is allowed in
Biological: membrane receptors + nuclear pores admit what may enter
Android: HAL boundary · IRQ controller · Sensor HAL · SELinux TE enforcement
Organelles: cell-membrane (P3 σ=0.80, verified), membrane-receptors, nuclear-pores
AFFECT (室 — The Room): where work happens
Biological: cytoplasm and all organelles transform what was received
Android: kernel scheduler · ART/JIT · system_server · Binder thread pool · PowerHAL
Key chips: Kryo 670 CPU + Adreno 643 GPU + Hexagon 770 NPU
EXPRESSION (窗 — The Window): what flows back out
Biological: vesicles and Golgi package and ship products outward
Android: PackageManager dispatch · Binder reply · SurfaceFlinger · sendBroadcast
Cross-phase signal routes:
P->A P6 (σ=0.60, indicative, blue-green, binder): cell-membrane → nucleus
hardirq → Ca²⁺/CREB → gene expression
P->A Receptor cascade (Messenger async): membrane-receptors → cytoplasm (GPCR amplification)
A->E Secretory path (ordered-broadcast, red): ER → Golgi → vesicles (COPII + SNARE)
A->E P4 (σ=0.35, speculative, UV, ordered-broadcast): nucleus → cytoplasm
E->P Return loop (Messenger async, blue-green): vesicles → cell-membrane (SNARE/Binder reply)
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5. Automated Integrity Verification Guarded by Four Invariants
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The integrity test suite (biophotonIntegrity.assert.ts) is a Node/tsx script
invoked via:
pnpm --filter @workspaceworkspaceworkspaceworkspaceworkspaceworkspaceworkspaceworkspace/cell-os run test:biophoton
It enforces four structural laws that must hold across the entire codebase:
Invariant 1: BIOPHOTON_LINKS.length === 18 (canonical count)
Invariant 2: All P1–P7 required source->target tuples are present
Invariant 3: Every link carries a non-empty wavelengthBand field
Invariant 4: Every link’s couplingSigma falls within its confidence-tier bounds
Algorithmic Self-Consistency: The framework enforces the unidirectional retrograde
signaling law — mitochondria reports to nucleus (P1), never the reverse. Any
modification that inverts a canonical direction is caught by invariant 2 when the
suite is run. Wiring the suite into a CI pipeline makes this enforcement automatic
at every commit.
The codebase’s alignment score reflects a qualitative audit of how consistently
descriptive text, wavelength metadata, and σ tensor coefficients agree with each
other across the primary documentation files. It is a review finding, not a
computed runtime metric.
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PART 2 — FAIRPHONE 5 DEPLOYMENT ARCHITECTURE BLUEPRINT
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For a deployment built on Android (AOSP) onto the modular Fairphone 5 hardware
(Qualcomm QCM6490, 6nm TSMC N6 process, Android 13), Cell OS would operate as an
autonomous middleware resource governor. By binding its 18 canonical links, 39
qi-intersections, and σ-weighted attention tensor directly to lower-level Android
primitives and Linux kernel modules, it would establish a new model for
hardware-software interaction. The following describes that architectural blueprint
across five operational domains.
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I. The Execution Runtime: Intercepting AOSP Binder Traffic
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Because Cell OS is specified in TypeScript, a native implementation would not replace
the foundational C/C++ Linux kernel or Android HAL. Instead it would run as a
persistent, high-privilege system daemon — via an embedded V8/Node.js runtime or an
equivalent native port — acting as a metabolic interception matrix over the native
AOSP environment.
Deterministic Inter-Process Communication: In a privileged native implementation
(using the BinderInternal API, a custom kernel module, or eBPF probes — see Section
VI step 3), a Cell OS daemon would observe and classify Binder IPC traffic at the
/dev/binder level. Full interception requires system-level integration and careful
security design to avoid privilege escalation risks. The functional mapping of
biological pathways (P1–P7) would govern how messages are classified, re-prioritised,
and routed through the spectral channel map.
Unclogged Asynchronous Pipelines: P1 implemented as an explicit oneway Binder
transaction ensures continuous hardware telemetry packets — power consumption, bus
utilisation, thermal states — never stall the system’s execution pipeline or starve
the standard Android thread pool. Telemetry flows freely without inducing interface
lag or frame drops in user-facing applications.
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II. Hardware Modularity: Mapping the Fairphone 5 Architecture as Organelles
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The Fairphone 5’s uniquely modular design — removable motherboard, independent
battery, distinct camera modules, decoupled display — maps directly to the
biological topology. The primary per-zone FP5 hardware analogues:
Mitochondria → Hexagon 770 NPU (12 TOPS INT8) — primary compute energy burst
- PMIC / Power HAL / PowerManager wake locks
- 4,200 mAh battery (FP5 hardware spec) — physical energy reservoir
The NPU’s INT8 token-burst has the same kinetic signature as
mitochondrial UPE under oxidative stress: workload spike followed
by a retrograde thermal-throttling signal (P1) to the kernel.
Nucleus → QCM6490 SoC / Kryo 670 — core coordination, σ-weighted tensor
- Linux kernel / Android init (PID 1), syscall table, process scheduler
Cytoplasm → LPDDR4x 8 GB 2,133 MHz — physical cytoplasm / diffusion medium
- Bionic heap (jemalloc) + Binder system bus
Cytoskeleton → Adreno 643 GPU — SurfaceFlinger composition passes
- UI Framework / Choreographer (16 ms frame pulse)
- Binder thread pool (P5 waveguide routing)
Plasma Membrane → Project Treble double-wall: /system<->/vendor enforced by SELinux TE
- OLED display + touch sensors (perception boundary)
The Living Telemetry Loop: When a physical module experiences a state change — a
thermal spike in the charging module, a frame-rate transition on the display — the
event is converted into a biophoton emission rate (ph/s/cm²) and pushed through the
attention tensor. The OS then adapts its resource routing dynamically to the physical
state of the hardware.
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III. Asymmetric Processor Management: Scheduling on the QCM6490 SoC
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The Fairphone 5’s Qualcomm QCM6490 chipset provides an asymmetric octa-core CPU
(Kryo 670) in a 1+3+4 arrangement:
1× Cortex-A78 Prime 2.71 GHz — highest-performance core
3× Cortex-A78 Performance 2.40 GHz — standard foreground execution
4× Cortex-A55 Efficiency 1.96 GHz — low-power background work
A native Cell OS implementation’s spectral mapping would act as a custom Hardware
QoS governor across these clusters and the co-processor array:
UV (200–380 nm) → high-priority Binder → Cortex-A78 Prime (sched_setaffinity)
Blue-green (450–550 nm) → normal Binder → Cortex-A78 Performance cores (90 Hz UI)
Red (634–703 nm) → Binder pool → Cortex-A78 / default CFS scheduling
NIR (700–1,000 nm) → Broadcast Intent → Cortex-A55 Efficiency / background
Deep-NIR (900–1,400 nm) → WorkManager queue → Cortex-A55 Efficiency cores
The Hexagon 770 NPU (12 TOPS INT8 via QNN SDK/FastRPC bridge) handles AI inference
bursts — the mitochondrial load spike — while the Cortex-A78 Prime core acts as the
nucleus: the kernel power governor receiving the retrograde P1 thermal report.
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IV. Resilient Self-Healing and the Prevention of Cascade Failures
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The Cellular Bystander Protocol (P3): If an isolated system component or background
daemon crashes, it emits a simulated stress burst through the cell-membrane->
membrane-receptors pathway. Translated to software, this triggers an AOSP
unordered-broadcast intent that alerts all adjacent, decoupled system daemons.
Instead of propagating a cascading failure, surrounding services recognise the
localised event, adjust their σ-weighted attention metrics, contain the failing
process, and step down execution priority until the component can safely restart.
This is designed to contain and reduce service-level cascade failures; it would not
replace true kernel-level panics, which occur below the Android userspace stack.
Invariant Guardrails: Any modification that routes data in an un-biological
direction — such as an inverted nucleus-to-mitochondria control loop — is caught by
invariant 2 when the integrity suite is run, preventing circular dependency deadlocks.
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V. Meaning for the Open-Source Project Lifecycle
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The precisely quantified architecture — four confidence labels, P1–P7 canonical
pathway set, σ ≥ 0.75 for verified routes — makes the codebase fully auditable and
extensible. Contributors can safely build custom extensions, device trees, or
cell-native applications because the scheduling laws and communication channels are
bound to clear mathematical realities grounded in peer-reviewed biophoton biology.
AOSP Compatibility: Because the biophoton logic is designed to route into standard
Android primitives (Binder, system intents, thread priorities), it is structured to
avoid licensing conflicts or technical incompatibilities with standard AOSP device
trees. The project’s specification layer is a standard, compilable TypeScript
codebase that demonstrates how biological principles can govern silicon hardware.
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SECTION VI — DOES CELL OS ALREADY RUN AS MIDDLEWARE ON THE FP5?
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Running Cell OS today opens a React web application in the browser. It does not
automatically install or activate any middleware layer on the Fairphone 5.
To transition from the current SPA to actual on-device middleware, the following
work is required:
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Native Android implementation
Port or re-implement the domain logic as a privileged Android system service
(Kotlin/Java via AIDL) or a native C++ daemon — or embed a lightweight JS
runtime (Hermes/V8) inside an Android service. The TypeScript domain types
and σ-weighted logic already provide the full specification.
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Privileged system integration
Sign the service as a system app or include it in a custom ROM/AOSP build.
Requires SELinux policy authoring (new type-enforcement rules for the daemon’s
security domain) and appropriate AndroidManifest permissions.
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Binder observation hooks
Use Android’s BinderInternal or a custom kernel module / eBPF program to
observe IPC traffic. This is the most architecturally complex step and
requires careful security design to avoid privilege escalation risks.
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Scheduler and power integration
Native use of sched_setaffinity(), setpriority(), or cgroup assignment requires
either a root-level process or integration with Android’s PowerHAL /
PerformanceHint API, which the QCM6490 supports via Qualcomm vendor extensions.
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Build and flash
Package as a flashable OTA zip or a Magisk module for development use, or
integrate into an AOSP fork targeted at the Fairphone 5 device tree
The current SPA’s value is that it provides a source-checked specification
foundation for that native implementation: every pathway, σ coefficient, wavelength
band, and CPU mapping is already defined, documented, and invariant-checked.
Native implementation and security validation remain as the next phases of work.
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SOURCE-CODE REFERENCE — KEY NUMBERS AT A GLANCE
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BIOPHOTON_LINKS count: 18 (7 required P-series + 11 additional; invariant 1)
QI_INTERSECTIONS count: 39 (of 264 possible; qiMatrix.ts)
Canonical P-pathways: P1–P7 (7 required source->target tuples; invariant 2)
Integrity invariants: 4 (biophotonIntegrity.assert.ts)
σ confidence labels: verified ≥0.75 / indicative 0.50–0.75 / speculative 0.30–0.50
unconfirmed 0.30–0.50 (no supporting literature)
Organelle nodes: 15 (CELL_MAPPINGS in organelles.ts)
Substrate nodes: 17 (SUBSTRATE_NODES in substrate.ts)
Navigation zones: 8 (CELL_ZONES in CellShellProvider.tsx)
CPU topology (Kryo 670): 1×2.71GHzo-2.71GHztex-A78 2.71G-2.40GHz-2.71G+ 3×Co-2.40GHztex-A78 1.96GHz.-2.40GHzo-processor0GHz 1.96GHz2.71G-1.96GHzz 4×Cortex-A55 1.96GHz
2.40GHzo-processor: 1.96GHz Hexagon 770 NPU — 12 TOPS INT8 (HVX + HMX)
Memory: LPDDR4x 8 GB 2,133 MHz
Wavelength bands: UV | blue-green | red | NIR | deep-NIR (types.ts)
P->A->E phases: Perception (門) · Affect (室) · Expression (窗)
Current build: React + Vite SPA — visualization and specification tool
