Yes, Indeed Broadcom is difficult to work with. So is Atheros since they were bought out by Qualcom. You should mention your goal price and how many units you want to manufacture and that can help me figure out what hardware you should use. You could always use a general SOC from a chinese vendor and use a usb wifi module since those cost about 10 rmb. Ingenic is pretty open and provides their software and schematics online without a NDA.
For me I will use any SDRAM module that is compatible. Normally ISSI or Etrontech. I would like to source 64MB Modules too, but that is more tricky since they build less of that and its more expensive. Maybe I can buy them second hand and build a memtest86 machine to test second hand memory modules for 64MB Ram. I also have the Idea of building programming jigs for the routers. My theory is to cut down the time it takes to use the iqflex. On the USB based routers It can take over a minute to fully boot. The iqflex process can take less than a minute. So my idea is to use flashrom with ftdi 2232 to program a special quick booting image for the iqflex calibration. Put the router back into the jig, extract the calibration info. Use a barcode reader to read a barcode that contains the mac and serial number. Then generate a new image with the unique mac and calibration info. Then spi flash that unique image back to the router. Best Regards, Jason On Fri, Jan 20, 2012 at 8:39 PM, jonsm...@gmail.com <jonsm...@gmail.com>wrote: > On Fri, Jan 20, 2012 at 3:22 AM, jason duhamell <ps2chi...@gmail.com> > wrote: > > I have never used I2S before. Could you use an add-on Chip via the PCI > port > > on RT3052 by chance? > > There are lots of ways we can add it, but the cost of adding it ruins > the cost advantage of the using the router chip. Broadcom BCM4717 has > i2s, but that's another vendor that won't talk to us. I need to see a > datasheet to know if it is usable. > > Which SDRAM chips are in those BOMs? What is the pricing? > > -- > Jon Smirl > jonsm...@gmail.com > _______________________________________________ > openwrt-devel mailing list > openwrt-devel@lists.openwrt.org > https://lists.openwrt.org/mailman/listinfo/openwrt-devel >
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