Autor: OpenWrt
The OpenWrt project will celebrate its twentieth anniversary this year, and on that occasion John Crispin revived the old idea of creating first own hardware design fully supported by upstream. It should be a router built on the popular Banana PI platform, which will be completely open. The only closed part should be the firmware of the network cards, but it runs in a separate processor.
The developers created several different designs and finally modified the most powerful and expensive variant to a simpler and more feasible design. The goal is to create an OpenWrt One/AP-24.XY platform that will have features that the developers believe every OpenWrt-enabled device should have: software indestructibility with multiple recovery options, a hassle-free system console, built-in battery-backed RTC, and more.
At the moment, the following parameters are calculated:
- SOC: MediaTek MT7981B
- Wi-Fi: MediaTek MT7976C (2×2 2.4 GHz + 3×3/2×2 + zero-wait DFS 5Ghz)
- DRAM: 1 GiB DDR4
- Flash: 128 MiB SPI NAND+ 4 MiB SPI NOR
- Ethernet: 2× RJ45 (2.5 GbE + 1 GbE)
- USB (Host): USB 2.0 (Type-A port)
- USB (device, console): Holtek HT42B534–2 UART to USB (USB-C port)
- Storage: M.2 2042 for NVMe SSD (PCIe gen 2 ×1)
- Buttons: 2× (reset + user-usable)
- Mechanical switch: 1× for boot chip selection (regular, backup)
- LED: 2x (PWM controlled), 2x ETH LED (GPIO controlled)
- External watchdog: EM Microelectronic EM6324 (GPIO controlled)
- RTC: NXP PCF8563TS (I2C) with battery (CR1220)
- Power supply: USB-PD-12V on USB-C port (optional 802.3at/afPoE via RT5040 module)
- Expansion slots: mikroBUS
- Certification: FCC/EC/RoHS compliance
- Box: sizes compatible with BPi-R4
- JTAG for main SOC: 10-pin 1.27mm (ARM JTAG/SWD)
- Antenna connectors: 3x MMCX for ease of use and durability
- Schematics: freely available under a free license
- Compliant with the GNU GPL
- The price is heading under $100
2024-01-10 07:37:05
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