3mdeb Embedded Systems Consulting Piotr Krol

FW2B

The Vault is an Open Source ready hardware manufactured by Protectli, focused on firewalls. One of the main advantages of this platform is very quiet work and small dimensions together with running on approximately 10 Watts under moderate load, 18W max. With an Open Source solution, you can choose which Operating System will run your network, with full control over the configuration!

The Vault is a small form factor PC built for use as a firewall/router. The FW2B is based on a 2 network port design that leverages a low power, but versatile Intel Celeron J3060 CPU. This CPU supports AES-NI, Intel’s Hardware Acceleration for Encryption. The Vault uses standard Intel components (including Intel network ports) which results in compatibility with a variety of operating systems, including a number of open source firewall projects. The Vault is fanless so it has no moving parts, which results in an incredibly durable platform that can be used in less than ideal environments. Its all aluminum enclosure (no plastic here) is a giant heat sink, keeping the CPU cool. The FW2B can accommodate up to 8GB of DDR3L-1600 RAM and 1TB mSATA storage drive.

Datasheet(FW2B): link

FW4B

The Vault is an Open Source ready hardware manufactured by Protectli, focused on firewalls. One of the main advantages of this platform is very quiet work and small dimensions together with running on approximately 10 Watts under moderate load, 18W max. With an Open Source solution, you can choose which Operating System will run your network, with full control over the configuration!

The Vault is a small form factor PC built for use as a firewall/router. The FW4B is based on a 4 network port design that leverages a low power, but versatile Intel Celeron J3160 CPU. This CPU supports AES-NI, Intel’s Hardware Acceleration for Encryption. The Vault uses standard Intel components (including Intel network ports) which results in compatibility with a variety of operating systems, including a number of open source firewall projects. The Vault is fanless so it has no moving parts, which results in an incredibly durable platform that can be used in less than ideal environments. Its all aluminum enclosure is a giant heat sink, keeping the CPU cool.

The FW4B can accommodate up to 8GB of DDR3L-1600 RAM and 1TB mSATA storage drive.
 

Datasheet(FW4B): link

Remote testing environment is a hat designed for Orange Pi Zero board which runs specially crafted Linux distribution using the Yocto Project. We developed rte to enable programmers from around the world in low level firmware development without hassle of heavy KVM switch interface. In result we have tool which makes easier work with firmware debugging tasks.

Remote industrial application debugging

Industrial applications are very custom. Sometimes it is hard to reproduce environment out of the factory floor. Because of that we are offering the ability to connect rte which in secure way exposes hardware interface for firmware developer expert who can solve issue for our custom configuration.

We mastered solutions based on:

• coreboot
• U-Boot
• UEFI/edk2
• Embedded Linux
• any other type of application with well defined interface

Platform enabling

There are various situations that may require to work remotely on a platform to enable its support in projects like coreboot, U-Boot, Linux or edk2. When traveling we don’t always have the facility to perform various tests. Sometimes enabling happen in early stage of production when number of available devices is not sufficient to serve for all of the developers. rte gives you environment that can be shared and has low level access to peripherals so any hang can be recovered by reflashing or power cycle

Compatibility testing

It may happen that our device has to support set of peripherals that came from various off-shore vendors. Those peripherals may have different behavior. It happens a lot that we want to make sure that the one we choose will work correctly over a long period of time. Performing thousands of power state cycles or hot plug events is problematic. We solve that by using rte.

Performance optimization

Measuring of performance data takes time and requires good framework for execution and gathering data. This problem was already resolved by projects like Phoronix Test Suite. rte can deploy and schedule almost any testing framework as well as make sure that the results are correctly saved on dedicated storage.

Specifications

• 1×3 GPIO header (directly connected to OPi zero)
• 1×4 GPIO header (expander GPIOs with no OC buffers)
• 2 additional USB connectors (normally populated as 2,54mm pin header on OPi zero) which can be used to connect external flash programmers like DediProg or RS232 converters
• 1×3 UART header for Armbian/Yocto system debug output and console
• 2×4 SPI header 2,54mm with all necessary signals to flash SPI chips
• 1×4 I2C header
• 1×12 pin header with GPIOs connected to OC buffers
• DB9 male connector for RS232
• relay and 2 DC Jack female connectors
• 1×2 5V output header

Datasheet: link

3mdeb help You improve your skills in the area of Open Source Firmware and Embedded Software, by giving online or on-site training to you or your team. We perform trainings in all available Open Source Firmware and Embedded Software frameworks coreboot, UEFI, edk2, TianoCore, LinuxBoot, ARM Trusted Firmware or Yocto.
Our Trainings:

• Coreboot For Embedded Systems Developers

• Uefi Offensive Security

See more on our website!