OpenRB forum

OpenRB is already alvailable in first three versions:

1)OpenRB Light with PowerPC 266Mhz, 8MB NOR industrial grade memory, 32MB RAM, one 10/100 ESD protected LAN, one MiniPCI, Hardware watchdog, RS232, I2C, GPIO, JTAG, Compact Flash extension, FlashsSYS open source OS;
2)OpenRB Medium with PowerPC 266Mhz, 8MB NOR industrial grade memory, 32MB RAM, two 10/100 ESD protected LAN, two MiniPCI, Hardware watchdog, RS232, I2C, GPIO, JTAG, Compact Flash extension, FlashsSYS open source OS;
3)OpenRB Medium A with PowerPC 266Mhz, 8MB NOR industrial grade memory, 64MB RAM, two 10/100 ESD protected LAN, two MiniPCI, Hardware watchdog, RS232, I2C, GPIO, JTAG, Compact Flash extension, FlashsSYS open source OS.

Prices starting at EUR69.
For better prices for volume orders please contact sales [at] openrb.com



Edgars

1) sorry, our misstake differences are two ethernets and two minipci (OpenRB Medium) instead of one ethernet and one minipci (OpenRB Light)
2) Yes we use uboot, but with other memory mapping and we use last version of u-boot 1.3.4 and some small differences
3) You can already buy theses boxes in our shop http://shop.openrb.com or writing an e-mail to sales [at] openrb.com. We have all versions in stock
4) Yes, we have already prepared patches for openwrt and prepared our FW FlashSYS based on openwrt with wireless driver for atheros superchannel feature (Like MT custom frequency select) --  frequencies 4.9-6.0 Ghz with step 5MHz and without output power limitations
5)Yes

tetzlav wrote:

Whats about the Philips-USB2.0-Host-Controller?
(seen at that picture of OpenRB Medium
http://shop.openrb.com/index.php?main_p … 1218464561
and descripted in
http://openrb.com/flashsys/OpenRB405_ma … manual.pdf)

Is this opional or just not assembled?

we have boards with USB controller in our stock, too.
We are now finishing the driver for USB.

thank you for your opinion!

FraB wrote:

Very very interesting hardware (and software, too)

I will order it tomorrow for testing; I like the price/performance ratio and the extended temperature features; it's a pity it does not support 48VDC power input, anyway 40VDC is ok, too

it's not a big problem to implement 48V, for this purpose you should use DC to DC converter. But there appears a question - why do you need this? We are using 24V power supplies, but the system requires 3.3V and 1.8V. The margin (24-3.3V) is quite enough and 24V power supplies come at lower price.

I don't know well the PPC405 CPU; how does it compare to the IXP420 @ 266MHz? is its performance far behind the IXP?

Why do you think that IXP420 is much faster than PPC405?
PowerPC is superscallar processor with RISC architecture with more than one command per tick. Minimum - with the same productivity as IXP. We have our speed tests in our archive, we will place them out some time later.

how could it compare as wireless base station to a 2-slot IXP420@266 system (e.g. Avila) ?

the same or even faster.
Bu the way, we have IXP425 boards in our stock, too. Available here:

http://shop.openrb.com/index.php?main_p … cts_id=116

Light, Medium.... will "High" arrive soon?  I would need more CPU power and 4 Mini-PCI slots

will we have a version comparable to a 4-slot IXP425@533 system ?

"High" in our opinion would be with CPU 333MHz and 64MB RAM.
We will not make 4 MiniPCI because of radio interference and speed of PCI bus. We think and suggest max 2 x MiniPCI, so that performance of radio would not suffer.

I would also need a special version with on-board GPS/Galileo module connected to a UART
(http://www.trimble.com/embeddedsystems/ … D=overview)
(http://www.u-blox.com/products/u5modules.html)

will a custom product be possible? (with volume orders, of course)

for this purpose we have made and use Extender connector allowing to connect additional electronics to the main board, daughter board (in the pictures below). To implement your module, it will not make much efforts. Serial port of GPS uses CMOS level and can be connected directly to PowerPC processer without any levels converters.

FYI now we have Extenders based on:

1) Atmel (like Arduino CC project)
www.arduino.cc

2) GSM with GPRS and GPS (based on Telit module)
www.telit.com

3) Zigbee
www.meshnetics.com

4)Module for smart house systems
www.knx.org

You can already order the boards.