Royal Philips Electronics has announced a wireless broadband residential gateway reference design for the “connected home” that supports both 802.11b and DECT (Digital Enhanced Cordless Telecommunications) communications standards. Philips says its new Linux-based hardware/software reference design, called the PTD2754, is intended to help companies rapidly develop SOHO (small office / home office) routers and residential gateways that support multiple wireless electronic devices and multiple cordless handsets for up to four separate VoIP phone numbers (via a single broadband connection).

The reference design integrates multiple applications within a single reference design, including router, NAT (network address translation), VPN (virtual private network), 802.11b access point, Firewall, VPN, VoIP, and DECT.

The hardware portion of the reference design is a single-board computer (SBC) based on the Philips PTD2114 “Gateway-on-a-Chip” processor, a highly integrated system-on-chip device that includes three CPUs which each run at 133 MHz. Measuring 8 x 4.75 inches, the SBC includes 8MB of Flash and 32MB of SDRAM memory and there are four means of connectivity, including 802.11b wireless, 10/100BaseT Ethernet, USB 2.0 host and client, corded voice (FXS and FXO), and cordless voice DECT base station and handset.

PTD2114 “Gateway-on-a-Chip” block diagram

The software included with the PTD2754 reference design provides a complete Linux-based system solution including routing, embedded management, wireless access point, NAT, Stateful Packet Inspection Firewall, VPN, VoIP signaling and processing.

PTD2754 gateway/router reference design software architecture

The PTD2754 is available immediately for $5,000 per unit.

 
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