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Scope

As part of RDKM Broadband team we want to bringup IoT Barton on a platform of choice and make it available as reference for the community,The platform should be broader enough to support all IoT use cases so that depending on operator requirement he/she can test their specific use cases

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• Platform Name	Bluetooth/BLE	Zigbee	Thread	Wi-Fi	Number of USB Ports	References
  Banana Pi R4	No Inbuilt BT & supported only through  USB USB / USB3.0 hub	No Inbuilt support support (Supported through USB 3.0 hub)	No Inbuilt supportsupportSupported through USB 3.0 hub,Update got from Austin team)	Yes	1 (can be used for BT)	BT Integration in BPI R4 Bluetooth support in Banana Pi R4(Reference)
  Raspberry Pi 4	Yes	Supported through USB	TBD through USB	Yes	4

Banana Pi R4

• Does USB 3.0 hub can be used to connect USB Bluetooth,USB Zigbee,USB Thread dongles
  • Yes,If so did we confirm
    • BT USB tested - Details can be found here - Bluetooth support in Banana Pi R4(Reference)
    • Zigbee detected through ACM interface by enabling kernel config for acm (CONFIG_USB_ACM)

single USB dongle for Zigbee,Matter 

•  Yes - Silab's xG24 Explorer Kit (brd2703a)

High level Expectation

• draw.io Diagram
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Thread EFR32 integration reference in BPI R5

• OpenThread & Bluetooth platform integration in BPI R4 with silabs radio

Bluetooth EFR32 integration in BPI R4

• OpenThread & Bluetooth platform integration in BPI R4 with silabs radio

References

• https://static.linaro.org/connect/bud17/Presentations/BUD17-120%20-%20Linux-wpan-%20IEEE%20802.15.4%20and%206LoWPAN%20in%20the%20Linux%20Kernel.pdf
• https://linux-wpan.org/documentation.html

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Appendix

• Optional -  meta-openembedded/meta-networking/recipes-support/wpan-tools/wpan-tools_0.9.bb:2:HOMEPAGE = "http://wpan.cakelab.org/releases/"