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Any plans for adding wifi or bluetooth capability? I admit I have little hardware knowledge, but would those normally be separate chips, or are they going to be

• erichocean 10y ago
  +1 I'd really like to at least have Bluetooth LE available.
• thrilleratplay 10y ago
  or cellular? I have been waiting for a modern fully open source mobile device for years.
• asb 10y ago
  On-chip, not in the near future. The main challenge is the analogue design and that's not the area where our expertise lies. The economics are also quite different for an open source effort (digital logic is portable across different process nodes, analogue designs aren't), plus it's very difficult to share designs due to the foundries' desire to protect trade secrets. That's not to say we should write-off the posibility of open analogue components. This is an area that Onchip UIS are actively working. They are crowdfunding an open microcontroller design and write about this a little bit in their latest update https://www.crowdsupply.com/onchip/open-v/updates/5th-risc-v-workshop https://www.crowdsupply.com/onchip/open-v/updates/5th-risc-v... (see 'no one else is doing analog'). For the board itself, we'd definitely like a WiFi/Bluetooth chip, it just won't be open.