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