Banana Pi BPI-RV2 open source gateway is a device based on Siflower SF21H8898 SoC, 1 × 2.5G WAN network interface, 5 Gigabit LAN network interface, onboard 512MB DDR3 memory, 128 MiB NAND, 16 MiB NOR, M.2 interface, MINI PCIE and USB 2.0 interface, etc.
Banana Pi BPI-RV2 open source gateway is a collaboration between Siflower and Banana Pi open source community (Banana Pi)
SF2H8898 chip Brief
SF21H8898 is a high performance industrial-grade SOC gateway chip developed by Siflower Communications. It adopts advanced TSMC 12nm FFC process and integrates four cores inside 64-bit RISC-V processor and dedicated network processing accelerator (NPU) (supports L2/L3 hardware processing, IPv4/IPv6 dual stack, 20Gbps switching capacity, full byte wire-speed forwarding), network-side support for QSGMII, SGMII/HSGMII and RGMII interfaces. IEEE 1588 PTP functionality is supported for time synchronization. It supports external DDR3/DDR3L/DDR4 SDRAM and NAND/NOR SPI Flash. The high-speed interface is USB2.0, PCIE2.0, and the low-speed interface is SPI, UART, I2C, PWM, etc. It can be used as enterprise gateway and industrial control gateway.
Siflower SF21H8898 chip diagram
Siflower SF21H8898 chip typical application scenarios
Key Features
Siflower SF21H8898 4 core RISC-V processor
With Siflower NPU, enterprise-class gateway level data forwarding processing capability can be achieved.
512MB DDR3 RAM
1 x 2.5GbE network and 5 x giga port
128 MB SPI NAND and 16 MB SPI NOR flash Ensure that the onboard system is indestructible,
M.2 2242/2230 interface support NVMe SSD (PCIe gen 2 x1)
RTC
PoE Network power support