New Hardware

By mark | Published: October 13, 2007

We have been busy working on a new hardware for some time.
Today, it’s time to reveal our secrets :)

    BR4-Appliance:

  • ADSP-BF537 500/600MHz CPU
  • 64-128MB SDRAM
  • 256KB serial flash for the bootloader
  • 1 Ethernet port with high performance PHY
  • Quad BRI based on Cologne silicon
  • SD card interface with a dedicated bus
  • 256MB NAND flash for voicemail and prompts.
  • Optional, hardware based echo cancellation.
  • Astifn with Asterisk 1.4.x, mISDN
  • 4 layer PCB

    • First prototypes to be available soon…

    BR4-Appliance PCB in 3D

      PR1-Appliance:

    • ADSP-BF537 500/600MHz CPU
    • 64-128MB SDRAM
    • 256KB serial flash for the bootloader
    • 1 Ethernet port with high performance PHY
    • Single T1/E1 interface based on PEF2256 silicon
    • SD card interface with a dedicated bus
    • 256MB NAND flash for voicemail and prompts.
    • Optional, hardware based echo cancellation.
    • Astifn with Asterisk 1.4.x, Zaptel 1.4.x and Libpri 1.4.x
    • 4 layer PCB

      • First prototypes to be available soon…

      pr1-appl.jpg

      Schematics and BOMs will be available shorty.
      For additional information, please contact me directly.

      Stay tuned
      Mark

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14 Comments

  1. diego
    Posted October 15, 2007 at 4:09 am | Permalink

    My warmest congratulations…
    Diego.

  2. Bill
    Posted October 20, 2007 at 12:27 pm | Permalink

    Great job Mark. Looking forward to the details. ;-)

  3. 54jason
    Posted October 22, 2007 at 11:40 am | Permalink

    It’s great to use BF537 with a PHY ( Mac) inside for IP04 upgrade.
    Rgds
    Jason

  4. mark
    Posted October 22, 2007 at 11:55 am | Permalink

    Jason,
    The BF537 has only built in MAC, you still need an external PHY.
    We are using one of the best PHYs DP83848 available on the market.
    Since the first BR4 is already up and running, I can tell you that overall networking speed seems to be much faster than DM9000AE based boards.
    I will blog with details very soon….
    Thx,
    Mark

  5. M. Shokuie Nia
    Posted October 30, 2007 at 8:39 am | Permalink

    Hi Guys,

    Its a very nice job. Mark have you evaluated the cost of this new board, you think it must be cheaper than BF1 v.2 ?

    Looking forward to see this new board soon.
    Regards.

    M. Shokuie Nia

  6. mark
    Posted October 30, 2007 at 7:23 pm | Permalink

    Hi,
    The actual BOM for br4-appliance and bf1 are very close. The BR4-appliance will cost slightly more to manufacture, as you have one BGA component and 4 layer PCB (vs. 2 layer in case of BF1). You will get slightly faster board with options to go up to 128MB of SDRAM, (you need bf537 silicon rev 1.0.3 for that!!!), plus four BRI interfaces…
    Cheers,
    Mark

  7. M. Shokuie Nia
    Posted November 1, 2007 at 9:01 am | Permalink

    Hi Mark,

    I’m so exited with all these open hardwares. I couldn’t wait to see your new board. Please let the community know about the schematic and BOM as soon as possible.

    Thanks.
    M. Shokuie Nia

  8. mark
    Posted November 1, 2007 at 9:10 am | Permalink

    Hello,
    The schematics are already available, please see my blog about bringing up BR4-appliance. At the end you will be able to download the schematics…

    Thanks,
    Mark

  9. Andy
    Posted November 17, 2007 at 5:54 pm | Permalink

    Hi mark,
    I wonder if there is anyone interested in a USB interface for USB FLASH DRIVE for voicemail storage (or general storage).

  10. mark
    Posted November 17, 2007 at 7:43 pm | Permalink

    Hi Andy,
    We provide MMC/SD card interface which is inexpensive as it uses an existing SPI bus. The USB would increase cost by several $. Please see Blackfin One design for an example of USB integration.
    Cheers,
    Mark

  11. Bill
    Posted December 27, 2007 at 6:07 pm | Permalink

    Mark,

    I see a few posts up that you say the schematics are available.. I easily found the BR4-appliance ones, but I can’t seem to find the PR1-appliance schematics anywhere. This is all very exciting stuff, and I’m really anxious to be able to follow along.. Unfortunately, being in the U.S., the BRI Appliance doesn’t do me much good since BRI Is not very standard here…

    THANK YOU FOR ALL OF YOUR HARD WORK, DEDICATION AND GENEROSITY!
    Bill

  12. mark
    Posted December 27, 2007 at 9:13 pm | Permalink

    Bill,
    I will post the PR1′s schematic together with details of test results.
    Please stay tuned…
    Mark

  13. mehdi
    Posted July 25, 2008 at 6:09 am | Permalink

    thank you for this great job
    but
    where can i found the uboot.ldr or de uboot files for this card

  14. mark
    Posted July 25, 2008 at 8:28 am | Permalink

    Please visit svn.astfin.org for all the packages including the uBoot
    Mark

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