User:Bnewbold

Just pasting some ideas about this site here, hopefully i'll get any uncertainty cleared up and will document answers on a site-editing-HOWTO page somewhere. For now leave comments on my talk page.

Site General Notes

 * mediawiki search is bad for partial product names; need to use "*703N*" instead of just "703N". Indicate this on front page or in search results?
 * for non-semantic-media-wiki-users, the semantic search page is confusing; include an example?

Site Scope
Some example device types; not all of these should be covered, but which?


 * home gateway
 * official chipset development board/kit
 * hobby chipset development board
 * wireless sensor node
 * wireless sensor node gateway
 * USB 3G adapter
 * PCI adapter (desktop/server internal)
 * networked attached storage
 * wireless printer
 * dedicated firewall hardware
 * "bare board" wireless basestation (eg Ubiquiti Networks RouterStation)
 * battery-powered 3G-to-WiFi hotspot
 * smartphone
 * tablet
 * "net-top" laptop

Some example chip types; not all of these should be covered, but which?


 * system on a chip
 * network on a chip
 * non-SoC processor (CPU)
 * radio
 * multi-radio (bluetooth+wifi+gps)
 * GPS radio
 * ethernet PHY layer
 * ethernet switch chip
 * microcontroller (MCU)
 * crypto co-processor

A Possible Ontology ("folksonomy")
"Types" could either be sub-categories, regular categories, a "type" property, or an enumerated property. Would not be a different template?


 * Embedded Device
 * DeviceType: Wireless Adapter, Wireless Gateway, Wireless Access Point, General Purpose, Plug Computer, Development Kit, Reference Design
 * "contains" relation to Chip
 * "compatibleWith" relation to Firmware, tagged with version (eg, ">=1.3.4")
 * Chip
 * ChipType: Radio, SoC, NoC, CPU
 * properties: architecture, bitwidth, memory bitwidth, interfaces, radio, product line
 * ChipSet
 * "contains" relation to Chip
 * Firmware
 * properties: license, open/closed, commercial/community, kernel
 * Vendor

Possible site extra features
Pulled in with External Data mediawiki plugin (which caches results):
 * FCC info
 * market pricing/availability