Bticino F454

This page shall be a container for various pieces of information about Bticion's F454. Most of the information is - for now - derived from just poking around on the device with SSH. So, due to this and in general: of course certain details can be unsure or not accurate, because something has been overlooked.

The F454 is a typical embedded system using a SoC and running a Linux-based system.

Hardware

The F454 is based on TI's (Texas Instruments) DaVinci DM365 SoC, from 2009. The Wikipedia page Texas Instruments DaVinci can be used as a first overview.

The SoC does include, among many peripherals, an ARM processor:

• family: ARM9E
• architecture: ARMv5TEJ
• core: ARM926EJ-S

Apparently DM365 SoCs can run with 216 MHz, 270 MHz or 300 MHz. As of this writing it is unclear what the F454 actually uses.

A look at Linux' /proc/cpuinfo

root@basi:~# cat /proc/cpuinfo 
Processor	: ARM926EJ-S rev 5 (v5l)
BogoMIPS	: 134.34
Features	: swp half thumb fastmult edsp java 
CPU implementer	: 0x41
CPU architecture: 5TEJ
CPU variant	: 0x0
CPU part	: 0x926
CPU revision	: 5

Hardware	: BTicino BASI board
Revision	: 0000
Serial		: 0000000000000000

TODO: Couldn't we derive the clock speed from the BogoMIPS - at least roughly?

The DaVinci DM365 SoC includes a 720p H264 encoder and decoder - next other co-processors and seems to belong to the group of full-featured DaVinci SoCs of it's time (2008/2009).

Question: Why DM365 - why does the F454 need this 720p en/decoding capability. Wouldn't a DM355 also do it? Related to video entry systems?

TODO: more

Software

TODO

Operating System

TODO

Applications

TODO