[OpenWrt-Devel] Buying router SOC CPUs
Are any of the router SOC CPUs easily available for purchase? We've tried to buy some buy nobody wants to talk to us. As a work around we are using a lpc3130 ($3.50) and an OEM USB wifi stick ($4.00 ralink). We have to go through FCC anyway because of the 2.4Ghz 802.15.4 radio. -- Jon Smirl jonsm...@gmail.com ___ openwrt-devel mailing list openwrt-devel@lists.openwrt.org https://lists.openwrt.org/mailman/listinfo/openwrt-devel
Re: [OpenWrt-Devel] Buying router SOC CPUs
This unfortunately a common attitude from parts vendors, especially when you are not buying in qty 10k+. You might try asking vendors for a tray of samples for testing purposes, e.g. a dozen chips. On Tue, Jan 17, 2012 at 7:16 PM, jonsm...@gmail.com wrote: > Are any of the router SOC CPUs easily available for purchase? We've > tried to buy some buy nobody wants to talk to us. > > As a work around we are using a lpc3130 ($3.50) and an OEM USB wifi > stick ($4.00 ralink). We have to go through FCC anyway because of the > 2.4Ghz 802.15.4 radio. > > -- Ben West http://gowasabi.net b...@gowasabi.net ___ openwrt-devel mailing list openwrt-devel@lists.openwrt.org https://lists.openwrt.org/mailman/listinfo/openwrt-devel
Re: [OpenWrt-Devel] Buying router SOC CPUs
On Tue, Jan 17, 2012 at 8:33 PM, Ben West wrote: > This unfortunately a common attitude from parts vendors, especially when you > are not buying in qty 10k+. We are in the 2-4K volume range which is too low for them to apparently care about. If they'd just put the chips into a distributor and give us an accurate manual we'd probably never call the chip manufacturer. What is pricing like for the SOC chips? Would it be less that our $8.00 combo of lpc3130/USB wifi? USB wifi is flexible in that we can put in 11g, 11b, 5Ghz, etc sticks. lpc3130 is a very good chip for this since it has the integrated 480Mb USB PHY. > You might try asking vendors for a tray of samples for testing purposes, > e.g. a dozen chips. > > > On Tue, Jan 17, 2012 at 7:16 PM, jonsm...@gmail.com > wrote: >> >> Are any of the router SOC CPUs easily available for purchase? We've >> tried to buy some buy nobody wants to talk to us. >> >> As a work around we are using a lpc3130 ($3.50) and an OEM USB wifi >> stick ($4.00 ralink). We have to go through FCC anyway because of the >> 2.4Ghz 802.15.4 radio. >> > > -- > Ben West > http://gowasabi.net > b...@gowasabi.net > > > ___ > openwrt-devel mailing list > openwrt-devel@lists.openwrt.org > https://lists.openwrt.org/mailman/listinfo/openwrt-devel > -- Jon Smirl jonsm...@gmail.com ___ openwrt-devel mailing list openwrt-devel@lists.openwrt.org https://lists.openwrt.org/mailman/listinfo/openwrt-devel
Re: [OpenWrt-Devel] Buying router SOC CPUs
Many moons ago I was working with a startup developing a small battery-powered device based around TI's DaVinci DM355 SoC. http://www.ti.com/product/tms320dm355 We tried to use the MMC/SDIO interface to talk to an SD form-factor 802.11 card (since the USB was already assigned elsewhere), but I could see that USB working well for a cheap Ra-Link card instead. As to your question about pricing reference, the DM355 runs roughly US$20/ea from AVNet, for example. http://avnetexpress.avnet.com/store/em/EMController/Processor/Multimedia-Misc/_/N-100230/Ne-10?action=products&advAction=&cat=1&catalogId=500201&cutTape=&inStock=&langId=-1&myCatalog=&npi=&proto=®ionalStock=&rohs=&searchType=&storeId=500201&term=dm355&topSellers= We were able to get a tray of sample DM355's from AVnet, and it looks like they sell some of the pkg variants in qty 1. On Tue, Jan 17, 2012 at 8:02 PM, jonsm...@gmail.com wrote: > On Tue, Jan 17, 2012 at 8:33 PM, Ben West wrote: > > This unfortunately a common attitude from parts vendors, especially when > you > > are not buying in qty 10k+. > > We are in the 2-4K volume range which is too low for them to > apparently care about. If they'd just put the chips into a distributor > and give us an accurate manual we'd probably never call the chip > manufacturer. > > What is pricing like for the SOC chips? Would it be less that our > $8.00 combo of lpc3130/USB wifi? USB wifi is flexible in that we can > put in 11g, 11b, 5Ghz, etc sticks. lpc3130 is a very good chip for > this since it has the integrated 480Mb USB PHY. > > > You might try asking vendors for a tray of samples for testing purposes, > > e.g. a dozen chips. > > > > > > On Tue, Jan 17, 2012 at 7:16 PM, jonsm...@gmail.com > > wrote: > >> > >> Are any of the router SOC CPUs easily available for purchase? We've > >> tried to buy some buy nobody wants to talk to us. > >> > >> As a work around we are using a lpc3130 ($3.50) and an OEM USB wifi > >> stick ($4.00 ralink). We have to go through FCC anyway because of the > >> 2.4Ghz 802.15.4 radio. > >> > > > > -- > > Ben West > > http://gowasabi.net > > b...@gowasabi.net > > > > > > ___ > > openwrt-devel mailing list > > openwrt-devel@lists.openwrt.org > > https://lists.openwrt.org/mailman/listinfo/openwrt-devel > > > > > > -- > Jon Smirl > jonsm...@gmail.com > ___ > openwrt-devel mailing list > openwrt-devel@lists.openwrt.org > https://lists.openwrt.org/mailman/listinfo/openwrt-devel > -- Ben West http://gowasabi.net b...@gowasabi.net ___ openwrt-devel mailing list openwrt-devel@lists.openwrt.org https://lists.openwrt.org/mailman/listinfo/openwrt-devel
Re: [OpenWrt-Devel] Buying router SOC CPUs
AP mode? On Thu, Jan 19, 2012 at 2:42 PM, Ben West wrote: > Many moons ago I was working with a startup developing a small > battery-powered device based around TI's DaVinci DM355 SoC. > http://www.ti.com/product/tms320dm355 > > We tried to use the MMC/SDIO interface to talk to an SD form-factor 802.11 > card (since the USB was already assigned elsewhere), but I could see that > USB working well for a cheap Ra-Link card instead. > > As to your question about pricing reference, the DM355 runs roughly US$20/ea > from AVNet, for example. > http://avnetexpress.avnet.com/store/em/EMController/Processor/Multimedia-Misc/_/N-100230/Ne-10?action=products&advAction=&cat=1&catalogId=500201&cutTape=&inStock=&langId=-1&myCatalog=&npi=&proto=®ionalStock=&rohs=&searchType=&storeId=500201&term=dm355&topSellers= > > We were able to get a tray of sample DM355's from AVnet, and it looks like > they sell some of the pkg variants in qty 1. > ___ openwrt-devel mailing list openwrt-devel@lists.openwrt.org https://lists.openwrt.org/mailman/listinfo/openwrt-devel
Re: [OpenWrt-Devel] Buying router SOC CPUs
The SD form-factor 802.11 card we were trying to integrate was based on ath5k, IIFC, which would support AP mode. I believe we got far enough to test in STA mode (i.e.. test the wifi link to a conventional base station). Although, SD format factor for peripherals is not ideal, and possibly obsolete by now. The thread author would need to check whether the ralink driver supports AP mode (which doesn't look hopeful from Googling). On Thu, Jan 19, 2012 at 3:09 PM, Mark Deneen wrote: > AP mode? > > On Thu, Jan 19, 2012 at 2:42 PM, Ben West wrote: > > Many moons ago I was working with a startup developing a small > > battery-powered device based around TI's DaVinci DM355 SoC. > > http://www.ti.com/product/tms320dm355 > > > > We tried to use the MMC/SDIO interface to talk to an SD form-factor > 802.11 > > card (since the USB was already assigned elsewhere), but I could see that > > USB working well for a cheap Ra-Link card instead. > > > > As to your question about pricing reference, the DM355 runs roughly > US$20/ea > > from AVNet, for example. > > > http://avnetexpress.avnet.com/store/em/EMController/Processor/Multimedia-Misc/_/N-100230/Ne-10?action=products&advAction=&cat=1&catalogId=500201&cutTape=&inStock=&langId=-1&myCatalog=&npi=&proto=®ionalStock=&rohs=&searchType=&storeId=500201&term=dm355&topSellers= > > > > We were able to get a tray of sample DM355's from AVnet, and it looks > like > > they sell some of the pkg variants in qty 1. > > > > -- Ben West http://gowasabi.net b...@gowasabi.net ___ openwrt-devel mailing list openwrt-devel@lists.openwrt.org https://lists.openwrt.org/mailman/listinfo/openwrt-devel
Re: [OpenWrt-Devel] Buying router SOC CPUs
On Thu, Jan 19, 2012 at 6:15 PM, Ben West wrote: > The SD form-factor 802.11 card we were trying to integrate was based on > ath5k, IIFC, which would support AP mode. I believe we got far enough to > test in STA mode (i.e.. test the wifi link to a conventional base station). > Although, SD format factor for peripherals is not ideal, and possibly > obsolete by now. > > The thread author would need to check whether the ralink driver supports AP > mode (which doesn't look hopeful from Googling). We hadn't tried AP mode. The device only has wifi and 802.15.4. The wifi is in STA mode. There's no place for AP to send traffic. If we had access to router SOC chips we'd add an Ethernet port and support AP mode. We have built several gateways using off-the-shelf routers and then adding a 802.15.4 USB stick. But we can't add the display and other peripherals to an off-the-shelf router. I would need to investigate Ralink and AP mode. The Ralink devices are softmac so almost everything is implement in the Linux wifi core. The Linux core definitely supports AP mode so the question is if it can get to enough features of the Ralink device to enable AP mode. We're going to investigate 11s after we get the basic device working. > > > On Thu, Jan 19, 2012 at 3:09 PM, Mark Deneen wrote: >> >> AP mode? >> >> On Thu, Jan 19, 2012 at 2:42 PM, Ben West wrote: >> > Many moons ago I was working with a startup developing a small >> > battery-powered device based around TI's DaVinci DM355 SoC. >> > http://www.ti.com/product/tms320dm355 >> > >> > We tried to use the MMC/SDIO interface to talk to an SD form-factor >> > 802.11 >> > card (since the USB was already assigned elsewhere), but I could see >> > that >> > USB working well for a cheap Ra-Link card instead. >> > >> > As to your question about pricing reference, the DM355 runs roughly >> > US$20/ea >> > from AVNet, for example. >> > >> > http://avnetexpress.avnet.com/store/em/EMController/Processor/Multimedia-Misc/_/N-100230/Ne-10?action=products&advAction=&cat=1&catalogId=500201&cutTape=&inStock=&langId=-1&myCatalog=&npi=&proto=®ionalStock=&rohs=&searchType=&storeId=500201&term=dm355&topSellers= >> > >> > We were able to get a tray of sample DM355's from AVnet, and it looks >> > like >> > they sell some of the pkg variants in qty 1. >> > >> > > -- > Ben West > http://gowasabi.net > b...@gowasabi.net > > > ___ > openwrt-devel mailing list > openwrt-devel@lists.openwrt.org > https://lists.openwrt.org/mailman/listinfo/openwrt-devel > -- Jon Smirl jonsm...@gmail.com ___ openwrt-devel mailing list openwrt-devel@lists.openwrt.org https://lists.openwrt.org/mailman/listinfo/openwrt-devel
Re: [OpenWrt-Devel] Buying router SOC CPUs
You should try buying the samples off taobao.com Jason On Fri, Jan 20, 2012 at 8:10 AM, jonsm...@gmail.com wrote: > On Thu, Jan 19, 2012 at 6:15 PM, Ben West wrote: > > The SD form-factor 802.11 card we were trying to integrate was based on > > ath5k, IIFC, which would support AP mode. I believe we got far enough to > > test in STA mode (i.e.. test the wifi link to a conventional base > station). > > Although, SD format factor for peripherals is not ideal, and possibly > > obsolete by now. > > > > The thread author would need to check whether the ralink driver supports > AP > > mode (which doesn't look hopeful from Googling). > > We hadn't tried AP mode. The device only has wifi and 802.15.4. The > wifi is in STA mode. There's no place for AP to send traffic. > > If we had access to router SOC chips we'd add an Ethernet port and > support AP mode. We have built several gateways using off-the-shelf > routers and then adding a 802.15.4 USB stick. But we can't add the > display and other peripherals to an off-the-shelf router. > > I would need to investigate Ralink and AP mode. The Ralink devices are > softmac so almost everything is implement in the Linux wifi core. The > Linux core definitely supports AP mode so the question is if it can > get to enough features of the Ralink device to enable AP mode. > > We're going to investigate 11s after we get the basic device working. > > > > > > > On Thu, Jan 19, 2012 at 3:09 PM, Mark Deneen wrote: > >> > >> AP mode? > >> > >> On Thu, Jan 19, 2012 at 2:42 PM, Ben West wrote: > >> > Many moons ago I was working with a startup developing a small > >> > battery-powered device based around TI's DaVinci DM355 SoC. > >> > http://www.ti.com/product/tms320dm355 > >> > > >> > We tried to use the MMC/SDIO interface to talk to an SD form-factor > >> > 802.11 > >> > card (since the USB was already assigned elsewhere), but I could see > >> > that > >> > USB working well for a cheap Ra-Link card instead. > >> > > >> > As to your question about pricing reference, the DM355 runs roughly > >> > US$20/ea > >> > from AVNet, for example. > >> > > >> > > http://avnetexpress.avnet.com/store/em/EMController/Processor/Multimedia-Misc/_/N-100230/Ne-10?action=products&advAction=&cat=1&catalogId=500201&cutTape=&inStock=&langId=-1&myCatalog=&npi=&proto=®ionalStock=&rohs=&searchType=&storeId=500201&term=dm355&topSellers= > >> > > >> > We were able to get a tray of sample DM355's from AVnet, and it looks > >> > like > >> > they sell some of the pkg variants in qty 1. > >> > > >> > > > > -- > > Ben West > > http://gowasabi.net > > b...@gowasabi.net > > > > > > ___ > > openwrt-devel mailing list > > openwrt-devel@lists.openwrt.org > > https://lists.openwrt.org/mailman/listinfo/openwrt-devel > > > > > > -- > Jon Smirl > jonsm...@gmail.com > ___ > openwrt-devel mailing list > openwrt-devel@lists.openwrt.org > https://lists.openwrt.org/mailman/listinfo/openwrt-devel > ___ openwrt-devel mailing list openwrt-devel@lists.openwrt.org https://lists.openwrt.org/mailman/listinfo/openwrt-devel
Re: [OpenWrt-Devel] Buying router SOC CPUs
On Thu, Jan 19, 2012 at 7:21 PM, jason duhamell wrote: > You should try buying the samples off taobao.com > > Jason On taobao... Ralink RT3050 between $2 and $7, quite a spread. Ralink RT3052 between $2 and $5 Finished routers using these chips are between $20 and $30. So what's the real price for these chips? I've always suspected they were in the $5 range. I stumbled onto the datasheet for the RT3050. http://www.tracermcc.ru/foto/bender/RT3050_5x_V2.0_081408_0902.pdf -- Jon Smirl jonsm...@gmail.com ___ openwrt-devel mailing list openwrt-devel@lists.openwrt.org https://lists.openwrt.org/mailman/listinfo/openwrt-devel
Re: [OpenWrt-Devel] Buying router SOC CPUs
Im going to manufacture Ralink and Realtek routers. The volume prices are about 2.7 usd for RT3050 and 3.45 usd for RT3052. Realteak RTL8196c/rtl8188re combo is 2.25 usd. Im focused on Realtek at the moment since the BOM is about 7 to 8 usd. Jason On Fri, Jan 20, 2012 at 8:43 AM, jonsm...@gmail.com wrote: > On Thu, Jan 19, 2012 at 7:21 PM, jason duhamell > wrote: > > You should try buying the samples off taobao.com > > > > Jason > > On taobao... > > Ralink RT3050 between $2 and $7, quite a spread. > Ralink RT3052 between $2 and $5 > > Finished routers using these chips are between $20 and $30. > > So what's the real price for these chips? I've always suspected they > were in the $5 range. > > I stumbled onto the datasheet for the RT3050. > http://www.tracermcc.ru/foto/bender/RT3050_5x_V2.0_081408_0902.pdf > > > -- > Jon Smirl > jonsm...@gmail.com > ___ > openwrt-devel mailing list > openwrt-devel@lists.openwrt.org > https://lists.openwrt.org/mailman/listinfo/openwrt-devel > ___ openwrt-devel mailing list openwrt-devel@lists.openwrt.org https://lists.openwrt.org/mailman/listinfo/openwrt-devel
Re: [OpenWrt-Devel] Buying router SOC CPUs
On Thu, Jan 19, 2012 at 11:11 PM, jason duhamell wrote: > Im going to manufacture Ralink and Realtek routers. The volume prices are > about 2.7 usd for RT3050 and 3.45 usd for RT3052. Realteak > RTL8196c/rtl8188re combo is 2.25 usd. Im focused on Realtek at the moment > since the BOM is about 7 to 8 usd. Those are great prices. Do you know if any of the router chips have a decent I2S implementation? RT3050 I2S is only 16b (not 24b inside 32b) and the internal clock can only do 48Khz. Realtek does not have I2S support. I'm looking for one that can do 32b I2S frames with 24b data (all recent I2S does this). And can generate an accurate 44.1Khz clock. > > Jason > > On Fri, Jan 20, 2012 at 8:43 AM, jonsm...@gmail.com > wrote: >> >> On Thu, Jan 19, 2012 at 7:21 PM, jason duhamell >> wrote: >> > You should try buying the samples off taobao.com >> > >> > Jason >> >> On taobao... >> >> Ralink RT3050 between $2 and $7, quite a spread. >> Ralink RT3052 between $2 and $5 >> >> Finished routers using these chips are between $20 and $30. >> >> So what's the real price for these chips? I've always suspected they >> were in the $5 range. >> >> I stumbled onto the datasheet for the RT3050. >> http://www.tracermcc.ru/foto/bender/RT3050_5x_V2.0_081408_0902.pdf >> >> >> -- >> Jon Smirl >> jonsm...@gmail.com >> >> ___ >> openwrt-devel mailing list >> openwrt-devel@lists.openwrt.org >> https://lists.openwrt.org/mailman/listinfo/openwrt-devel > > > > ___ > openwrt-devel mailing list > openwrt-devel@lists.openwrt.org > https://lists.openwrt.org/mailman/listinfo/openwrt-devel > -- Jon Smirl jonsm...@gmail.com ___ openwrt-devel mailing list openwrt-devel@lists.openwrt.org https://lists.openwrt.org/mailman/listinfo/openwrt-devel
Re: [OpenWrt-Devel] Buying router SOC CPUs
I have never used I2S before. Could you use an add-on Chip via the PCI port on RT3052 by chance? Best Regards, Jason On Fri, Jan 20, 2012 at 12:42 PM, jonsm...@gmail.com wrote: > On Thu, Jan 19, 2012 at 11:11 PM, jason duhamell > wrote: > > Im going to manufacture Ralink and Realtek routers. The volume prices are > > about 2.7 usd for RT3050 and 3.45 usd for RT3052. Realteak > > RTL8196c/rtl8188re combo is 2.25 usd. Im focused on Realtek at the moment > > since the BOM is about 7 to 8 usd. > > Those are great prices. > > Do you know if any of the router chips have a decent I2S > implementation? RT3050 I2S is only 16b (not 24b inside 32b) and the > internal clock can only do 48Khz. Realtek does not have I2S support. > > I'm looking for one that can do 32b I2S frames with 24b data (all > recent I2S does this). And can generate an accurate 44.1Khz clock. > > > > > > Jason > > > > On Fri, Jan 20, 2012 at 8:43 AM, jonsm...@gmail.com > > wrote: > >> > >> On Thu, Jan 19, 2012 at 7:21 PM, jason duhamell > >> wrote: > >> > You should try buying the samples off taobao.com > >> > > >> > Jason > >> > >> On taobao... > >> > >> Ralink RT3050 between $2 and $7, quite a spread. > >> Ralink RT3052 between $2 and $5 > >> > >> Finished routers using these chips are between $20 and $30. > >> > >> So what's the real price for these chips? I've always suspected they > >> were in the $5 range. > >> > >> I stumbled onto the datasheet for the RT3050. > >> http://www.tracermcc.ru/foto/bender/RT3050_5x_V2.0_081408_0902.pdf > >> > >> > >> -- > >> Jon Smirl > >> jonsm...@gmail.com > >> > >> ___ > >> openwrt-devel mailing list > >> openwrt-devel@lists.openwrt.org > >> https://lists.openwrt.org/mailman/listinfo/openwrt-devel > > > > > > > > ___ > > openwrt-devel mailing list > > openwrt-devel@lists.openwrt.org > > https://lists.openwrt.org/mailman/listinfo/openwrt-devel > > > > > > -- > Jon Smirl > jonsm...@gmail.com > ___ > openwrt-devel mailing list > openwrt-devel@lists.openwrt.org > https://lists.openwrt.org/mailman/listinfo/openwrt-devel > ___ openwrt-devel mailing list openwrt-devel@lists.openwrt.org https://lists.openwrt.org/mailman/listinfo/openwrt-devel
Re: [OpenWrt-Devel] Buying router SOC CPUs
Hi, I have read your message in the thread, and I wonder how far have you come with your development? Do you have any website? Thanks in advance. On Fri, Jan 20, 2012 at 5:11 AM, jason duhamell wrote: > Im going to manufacture Ralink and Realtek routers. The volume prices are > about 2.7 usd for RT3050 and 3.45 usd for RT3052. Realteak > RTL8196c/rtl8188re combo is 2.25 usd. Im focused on Realtek at the moment > since the BOM is about 7 to 8 usd. > > Jason > > > On Fri, Jan 20, 2012 at 8:43 AM, jonsm...@gmail.com wrote: > >> On Thu, Jan 19, 2012 at 7:21 PM, jason duhamell >> wrote: >> > You should try buying the samples off taobao.com >> > >> > Jason >> >> On taobao... >> >> Ralink RT3050 between $2 and $7, quite a spread. >> Ralink RT3052 between $2 and $5 >> >> Finished routers using these chips are between $20 and $30. >> >> So what's the real price for these chips? I've always suspected they >> were in the $5 range. >> >> I stumbled onto the datasheet for the RT3050. >> http://www.tracermcc.ru/foto/bender/RT3050_5x_V2.0_081408_0902.pdf >> >> >> -- >> Jon Smirl >> jonsm...@gmail.com >> ___ >> openwrt-devel mailing list >> openwrt-devel@lists.openwrt.org >> https://lists.openwrt.org/mailman/listinfo/openwrt-devel >> > > > ___ > openwrt-devel mailing list > openwrt-devel@lists.openwrt.org > https://lists.openwrt.org/mailman/listinfo/openwrt-devel > > ___ openwrt-devel mailing list openwrt-devel@lists.openwrt.org https://lists.openwrt.org/mailman/listinfo/openwrt-devel
Re: [OpenWrt-Devel] Buying router SOC CPUs
On Fri, Jan 20, 2012 at 3:22 AM, jason duhamell 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
Re: [OpenWrt-Devel] Buying router SOC CPUs
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 wrote: > On Fri, Jan 20, 2012 at 3:22 AM, jason duhamell > 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 > ___ openwrt-devel mailing list openwrt-devel@lists.openwrt.org https://lists.openwrt.org/mailman/listinfo/openwrt-devel
