Talk:2Wire 3600HGV

Is this definitely a Perseus? I thought it was an Ares. Can check tomorrow. The 3800 is certainly an Ares board.

Also the 3600HGV does not have a coax channel, whereas the 3800 has separate DSP processors, line drivers and front ends for both coax and twisted pair.

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The data in this entry was based on the FCC photos for this model.

The photos for the 3800HGV-B show it with a Perseus chip.. but this could, of course, be in error.

The photos for the 3600HGV have a heatsink on the chip, but a label on the board indicates the device uses Ares.

I do not have any of these units to confirm..

--M86 19:54, 30 October 2012 (EDT)

Just checked and both the 2Wire 3600HGV and the 2Wire 3800HGV are Ares.

There's a 2Wire 1801HG here, which is basically identical to the 2Wire 1800HG and that is a 2Wire Medusa CPU. That only supports a single data rate SDRAM. It's from the Trimedia TM1300 series, whereas all other 2Wire CPUs are from the TM1500 series.

The 2Wire Perseus CPU is found in early 2Wire 2700HGV, and in the 2Wire 2071-A, which was only sold in OZ/NZ, so far as I know.

All of these 2Wire CPUs are powered by the same Trimedia TM3260 5 issue slot Very Large Instruction Word (VLIW) cores, clocked at ~400MHz or less.

Perhaps the biggest difference in this platform is with the CPU in the 2Wire 3801HGV - that is the latest VDSL2 device from 2Wire (now Pace). The CPU powering the 3801HGV has various brandings, including 2Wire and Broadcom. But it is still powered by Trimedia TM3260 core, but in the 3801, it's a dual core.

Can photo these if it's worth the trouble?

--Asbokid

Data and photos are certainly always welcome.. provided it isn't too much trouble for yourself.

--M86 11:52, 2 November 2012 (EDT)