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Originally posted by willmore View PostFWIW, there seems to finally be a page for this SoC: https://www.broadcom.com/products/br...op-box/bcm7251
There isn't enough info to say wether it's suitable for a Rpi4 type of application. I seems to have a lot of dedicated interfaces to STB relevant chips, but it's entirely possible that those could also be disabled and used as GPIO. The chips used in the existing Rpi boards were STB chips as well.
This chip offers interfaces to 802.11ac wireless, PCI 3.0, GigE, DDR3/4. It also has two of their Brahma15 cores, FWIW. From what I can tell that core is a Coretex-A15 variant with improvements to its power efficiency. On this process (28nm) it can run up to 1.5GHz.
And the Phoronix article mentions the BCM7268, not the SoC you provided a link for.Last edited by plonoma; 13 October 2017, 02:08 PM.
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Originally posted by plonoma View PostNo SATA III interface(s)? Why would they make a System-on-a-Chip (SoC) for Set-top Boxes (STBs) without at least one of those?
Besides, with PCIe 3.0 it is not a major issue for OEMs to just add a Sata controller with all ports they think they might need, or any other device-specific payload that isn't so popular to warrant an integration in the SoC proper.
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