Netgear MP101
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The Netgear MP101 was the first of a series of digital media receivers by Netgear.
Family history
[edit]The Netgear MP101's family also includes other devices such as the MP115, the EVA700 and, the EVA8000.
Appearance
[edit]The Netgear MP101 is a small brushed silver unit that can provide a link between a PC-based MP3 collection and a conventional hi-fi.
Concept
[edit]The MP101 requires a UPnP AV media server to provide access to digital media, while some other units (and the later EVA8000) can read from a Windows share directly (or a NAS device).
Netgear does not manufacture the devices itself, but they are produced instead by a third-party company and then marketed as a Netgear product.
Implementation
[edit]The MP101 is based on the ARM9 Marvell Libertas 88W8510H system-on-a-chip and has 8 MB of DRAM. Netgear licensed the ARM MP3 decoder software for use with the device.
The MP101 runs the open-source eCos real-time operating system. Netgear made the source code available online.
External links
[edit]- MP101 review (December 20, 2004)
- "Netgear MP101 wireless music player". The Register. 2005-03-15.
- ARM press release: NetGear Builds Innovative Wireless MP3 Player Around ARM Powered SOC From Marvell (March 16, 2004)