Bluetrait

Embedded Devices are cool. Things such a mobile phones, routers, VCRs etc all include embedded devices. Quite often these devices are just smaller slower counterparts to things you’d find in your PC.

My Dlink 701 router died while I was on holidays (although it seems to be the power pack and not the router itself) so I decided to open it up and have a look at it.

The two biggest chips are a Realtek one (RTL8019AS) and an AMD one (Am186ES-40KC). The AMD one is in fact a 80186 (you know like a 286) running at a cool 40MHz. I thought that was pretty funny. I’d love to play around with the device more. Change around the software or something. I like embedded devices! Funky little things.

The following links are just some documentation about the AMD chip:
http://www.amd.com/epd/processors/2.16bitcont/2.am186exfa/6.am186es/a21096/21096.pdf
http://www.amd.com/epd/processors/2.16bitcont/2.am186exfa/6.am186es/186esblk/186esblk.pdf