Description
Geek Force Board is designed for IoT Home Multimedia and Home Automation. With powerful Quad-core ARM Cotex-A7 1.3MHz made by Mediatek MT7623, could reach below applications (including TOR, VPN functions).
Key features:
Multimedia Network Router System
Quad-core ARM Cotex-A7 1.3MHz
Big DRAM bandwidth
Interfaces included HDMI TX, MIPI, PCIe 2.0, USB2.0 OTG, USB 3.0
MT6625L provided 11n WLAN and Bluetooth, PCIe can be added on 11ac and more WLAN connections to do like concurrent linking.
| Hardware Description | |
| CPU | MT7623A or MT7623N Quad-core ARM Cotex-A7 1.3MHz |
| NAND Flash | 1GB |
| eMMC Flash | 1GB |
| RAM DDR3 | 8GB |
| Storage | External SD card reach 32GB |
| WAN | 2 ports Gbit (defined by firmware, the other 4 ports could be defined to WAN also) |
| LAN | 4 ports Gbit (defined by firmware) |
| USB 3.0 | 1x |
| HDMI | 2x |
| Mini PCIe | 3x |
| S/PDIF | In x1, out x1 |
| Video RCA | 1x |
| Micro USB | 1x, support OTG |
| Type A USB host | 1x |
| UART | 2x |
| I2C | 1x |
| JTAG | 1x |
| Raspberry Pi (GPIOs) | 1x |
| PCM | 1x |
| SPI 0 | 1x |
| IR receiver | 1x |
| IPEX | 1x WiFi + BLE |
Geek Force Board has:
Hardware decode
For H.264/MPEG-2/AVC/VC-1, streaming audio, FR, HR, EFR, AMR FR, AMR HR and Wide-Band ARM vocoders, polyphonic ringtones and advanced audio functions such as echo cancellation, hands-free speakerphone operation and noise cancellation.
Hardware storage accelerator
Hardware NAT, 2Gbps wired speed, L2 Bridge, IPv4 routing, NAT, NAPT, IPv6 routing, DS-Lite, 6RD, 6to4.
Hardware QoS
16 hardware queues to guarantee the min/max bandwidth of each flow, seamlessly co-work with hardware NAT engine, 2Gbps wired speed, SFQ with 1k queues.
Hardware Crypto Engine
Deliver 1 Gbps IPSec throughput, DDR: ODT off, self-reflash mode.
With those interfaces, you can contribute your own roboto multimedia router.
Applications:
Internet service router
Enterprise Wireless router
Smart router
Home security gateway
Home Automation center
NAS devices
Switch control processor
Multimedia Network Router System
Quad-core ARM Cotex-A7 1.3MHz
Big DRAM bandwidth
Interfaces included HDMI TX, MIPI, RGMII, TRGMII, PCIe 2.0, USB2.0 OTG, USB 3.0
MT6625L provided 11ac/n WLAN and Bluetooth, PCIe can be added on more WLAN connections to do like concurrent linking.
Multimedia:
Functions: multi-standard video accelerator and advanced audio subsystem.
Support: streaming video, multitude of decoders and encoders such as H.264 and MPEG-4; streaming audio, FR, HR, EFR, AMR FR, AMR HR and Wide-Band ARM vocoders, polyphonic ringtones and advanced audio functions such as echo cancellation, hands-free speakerphone operation and noise cancellation.
Hardware-Based NAT engine with QoS embedded is the key of Multimedia transportation. Fully support entertainment applications.
P2P home automation key is SFQ (Stochastic fairness queuing). MT7623N has SQF separating P2P sessions from audio/video ones to guarantee the streaming services.
Support OS: MTK SDK and OPENWRT, Ubuntu Snappers, Android.
