Plug computers

D. Hugh Redelmeier hugh-pmF8o41NoarQT0dZR+AlfA at public.gmane.org
Fri Aug 27 17:11:20 UTC 2010


| From: Dave Cramer <davec-zxk95TxsVYDyHADnj0MGvQC/G2K4zDHf at public.gmane.org>

| Yes, I do think I can make it cheaper. They have some money in for
| profit. I do expect it is currently made offshore. I find a 4 week
| lead time for orders a little long.

I have always assumed that it is cheap or free to license reference
designs.  Possibly only if you use their chips.

If you can make it cheaper, and are willing to do so for others,
without costing more, you might be a great resource for a community of
pluggers.

Of course that involves a few slippery slopes.

Make something small, and someone will always want to add "just one
more thing".  I'm no exception.

- nice to put a switch chip onboard so that you could have the
  five-port functionality of a normal home router

- nice to pick a core with current-gen ARM architecture (there may not
  be a chip that has the right balance of features; at first glance
  the current chip may be a local optimum).

- Lennart would like floating point

- Interesting stuff supported by 88F6281 but not brought out in the
  plugs as far as I know (but I haven't really looked)

  + a second SATA port

  + FXO/FXS (for a telephone circuit)

  + PCI Express x1 (that seems over the top for these designs, but
    maybe some minicard form factor makes sense)

  + MPEG2-TS (not quite sure how this works)
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