Possible embedded platforms for a VoIP gateway - an initial summary of findingsEran

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Thanks Gideon.
Please post your findings (spare us no details...) once you get something
breathing.

Eran

On Tue, Mar 29, 2011 at 11:11 AM, Gideon Spreeth <gspreeth at gmail.com> wrote:

> No, as far as I've seen it just plugs into the connectors? nothing needs to
> be removed..  linux as I use it has drivers for that specific codec, and
> many others,standard AC97 support, etc, so its easy enough to incorporate.
> But it is probably easier to look at something like that 9263 then, that
> has support built in.  Also haven't heard of anyone testing on it.
>
> If all goes well I can at least give stats on the SAM9260 soon, as well as
> ease of CODEC driver incorporation etc..
>
> Good luck
>
> Gideon Spreeth
>
>
> On 29 March 2011 10:52, Eran Duchan <pavius at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> Yep, found about the Caplyso last night. It's 3rd party and requires
>> removing the connectors from the EK. However, it seems to only be tested on
>> a proprietary RTOS, so it's not out of the box for linux.
>>
>> In addition, I have also found that even though the Atmel website lists
>> the SAM9263-EK<http://www.atmel.com/dyn/products/tools_card.asp?tool_id=4057> as
>> having a AC97 DAC, in reality it also has an input channel which has been
>> tested to work. However, this discussion<http://www.at91.com/forum/viewtopic.php/f,4/t,18866/>shows that it will not work in full duplex. The good news is a
>> patch <http://www.spinics.net/lists/alsa-devel/msg31861.html> was
>> released a month later, fixing the duplex issue. No word on whether anyone
>> has the 9263 running a full duplex voice call, though.
>>
>> Eran
>>
>>
>> On Tue, Mar 29, 2011 at 10:21 AM, Gideon Spreeth <gspreeth at gmail.com>wrote:
>>
>>> Hi there, I am in the process of testing pjsip on a SAM9260 board. I have
>>> done preliminary tests on the AT91SAM9260-EK from atmel  The problem is that
>>> you only have a audio out device so the media side does not work, as stated
>>> by Eran, But currently with linux (Openembedded, Angstrom) installed, it is
>>> a very nice platform to work with, And I had no problems getting pjsua and
>>> other applications to run.
>>>
>>> You do get an add on board for this with the TLV320AIC23 audio codec,
>>> Calypso board( example implementation:
>>> http://www.ethernut.de/en/documents/sam-web-radio.html ) I have not
>>> tested this myself, but you can still get them from some sources it seems.
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> Our own board was designed similar to evaluation board but with the
>>> LM4549 Codec on board, will be able to test new hardware within the next
>>> week.
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> Regards
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> Gideon Spreeth
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> On 28 March 2011 20:21, Eran Duchan <pavius at gmail.com> wrote:
>>>
>>>> Hey pjsip list,
>>>>
>>>> I have been spending the past day trying to find a suitable and tested
>>>> embedded platform (w/a proper evaluation board including audio) for a 2
>>>> channel VoIP gateway running pjsip. It doesn't seem like there is any "out
>>>> of the box" solution; only hints about what may work. If anyone can point me
>>>> to a working, verified evaluation board for pjsip - I would be very
>>>> grateful. Below are the options I've seen so far.
>>>>
>>>> There seem to be two strong contenders: AD's Blackfin (uClinux only) and
>>>> Atmel's AT91SAM9 (uClinux or linux).
>>>>
>>>> The Blackfin support is listed in the pjsip documentation<http://www.pjsip.org/sip_media_features.htm> as
>>>> "underway" but Benny Prijono had a few blog posts explaining how to start
>>>> working with the Blackfin BF-537 STAMP and AD1836AZ-DBRD audio daughterboard
>>>> - but no followup as to whether this works, how many channels and
>>>> performance numbers.
>>>>
>>>> The SAM9, has a lot more buzz around it (relatively...). Quite a few
>>>> forum posts have people asking questions regarding various stages of
>>>> debugging. The only problem is finding a proper evaluation platform. Atmel's
>>>> offerings only support an input channel on the higher end
>>>> SAM9M10-G45-EK<http://www.atmel.com/dyn/products/tools_card.asp?tool_id=4735&category_id=163&family_id=605&subfamily_id=1739> (the
>>>> other EK's only have a DAC), and that too is single channel. Hope is found
>>>> when looking at 3rd party evaluation kits on the at91 website, such as Ronetix's AT91SAM9261
>>>> starter kit<http://www.at91.com/component/resource/article/Tools/35-Kits%20&%20Modules/1106-starter-kit-with-atmel-at91sam9261.html>.
>>>> However, it doesn't seem like anyone has run pjsip on this platform yet. The
>>>> pjsip trac shows <http://trac.pjsip.org/repos/wiki/PJMEDIA-MIPS>performance figures for the Olimex SAM9-L9260 board, but doesn't say
>>>> which CODEC daughterboard is used. In addition to that, Olimex has something
>>>> very close <http://www.olimex.com/dev/lpc-h3131.html> based on an NXP
>>>> ARM9 device, but it does not have ethernet. D'oh!
>>>>
>>>> Other options:
>>>> Beagleboard w/linphone: Seems to be somewhat tested and easy to deploy.
>>>> The downside is it is only 1 channel and based on the fairly expensive TI
>>>> DaVinci.
>>>> Audiocodes AC48x CPE VoIP Toolkit: All in one, but probably very
>>>> expensive
>>>> M53281KIT: Freescale's Coldfire with 3rd party CODECs. Also probably
>>>> expensive
>>>> I might also try getting this to work on an MPC875 platform I have
>>>> laying around (running @ 50MHz), outputting PCM via a transparent SCC.
>>>>
>>>> Again, any pointers regarding evaluation platforms would be great.
>>>> Eran
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
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