On 11/4/2011 12:21 PM, William "Chops" Westfield wrote:
>>> Are there any other microcontrollers/mpus [with MIPS architecture]
> LOTS of MPUs/SoCs.  Cavium, PMC-Sierra, and Broadcom, haven't been
> mentioned yet.
>
> BillW
>

Most bluray players are using broadcom chips with mips processors. I=20
found one gem of a unit inside an insignia player. They have the=20
broadcom soc, the ram, the flash, ethernet ports, SATA interface, HDMI=20
output, serial console, jtag pins, spdif connections, and it is all=20
located on a board just 4 inches square that is powered from a 5V and 3V=20
supply. I can remove it and use it like a general purpose computer, all=20
the ports are located on the board so it is just plug in and use , no=20
need to solder wires, etc.  They even left the system totally unlocked=20
with the root password being root. The processor is running at 650Mhz=20
with 256MB ram and 256MB flash.  I got the player for $30 as is and this=20
was a nice find.   I haven't done much with it yet other than try=20
different linux kernels but it has a lot of potential because all the=20
video decode hardware is still accessible.

mark H.


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