Future OpenJBOD control boards #1
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I have had a few ideas for future board versions that I wanted to document and figured this would be as good a place as any:
RP2350
The most likely successor. Nothing is truly wrong with the RP2040 board, however I have a hope that some of the SSL issues could be alleviated with the RP2350's increased memory and the option to add more on a board design level.
F1C200s
The Allwinner F1C200s is a small, cheap (~$4) SoC with a single 533MHz core and 64MB of embedded DDR SRAM capable of running Linux, as famously documented by [https://www.thirtythreeforty.net/posts/2019/12/my-business-card-runs-linux/](George Hilliard). It would be capable of communicating with the existing hardware on the RP2040 variant of the board, having the requisite I2C and SPI interfaces, as well as an SDIO interface that could be used for audit logging.
T113-S3
A bigger brother to the F1C200s, to the T113-S3 (also by Allwinner) runs about $5.8 and has two Cortex-A7 cores at 1.2GHz with built-in 128MB of DDR3 memory. Along with this, it can support a QSPI flash chip for more storage, as well as eMMC and SD cards. Furthermore, it has a built-in gigabit MAC with an RGMII interface, eliminating the need for a W5500 to drive the NIC. The downside to this board is that the documentation for it is quite poor, and there's very few open, high quality schematics to use as reference.
STM32MP1 series
This would be a more silly choice given the chip itself is more expensive and requires external memory, driving up complexity and cost. Not to mention the chips are woefully overspecced for the task. But there are some good arguments, too. They support more cryptography functions, have onboard gigabit MACs and fairly extensive options for storage.
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