Banana Pi BPI-R3 Mini
Summary
Introduction
Banana Pi BPI-R3 Mini Router board with MediaTek MT7986(Filogic 830) quad core ARM A53 chip design ,2G DDR RAM ,8G eMMC flash onboard,It is a very high performance open source router development board,support Wi-Fi6 2.4G wifi use MT7975N and 5G wifi use MT7975P, support 2 2.5GbE network port.
MediaTek MT7986(Filogic 830)
The MT7986(Filogic 830) integrates four Arm Cortex-A53 cores up to 2GHz with up to 18,000 DMIPs of processing power and 6Gbps of dual 4x4 Wi-Fi6 connectivity. It has two 2.5g Ethernet interfaces and serial peripheral interfaces (SPI). Filogic 830‘s built-in hardware acceleration engine enables fast and reliable Wi-Fi offloading and wireless network connection. In addition, the chip supports Mediatek FastPath™ technology, which is suitable for games, AR/VR and other low-latency applications.
Wi-fi 6 has many advantages over its predecessors, including lower latency, larger bandwidth capacity and faster transmission rates. Wireless network devices supporting the 6GHz band mainly use 160MHz wide channel and 6GHz uncongested bandwidth to provide multigigabit transmission and low-latency wi-fi connection, providing reliable wireless network for streaming media, games, AR/VR and other applications.
Application direction
- . Internet service Router
- . Wireless Router
- . Wireless Repeater
- . Home security Gateway
- . Home Automation
- . Nas device
- . Soft router
- . Network and communication applications
Key Features
- MediaTek MT7986(Filogic 830) Quad core ARM Cortex A53
- Wifi 6 2.4G/5G（MT7976C）
- 2G DDR RAM
- 8G eMMC flash
- 128MB Nand flash
- 2x 2.5GbE network port
- 1x M.2 Key B USB inerface
- 1x M.2 KEY M PCIe inerface
- 1x USB2.0 interface
Getting Start
Hardware
Hardware interface
Hardware spec
| HardWare Specification of Banana pi BPI-R3 Mini | |||
| CPU | MediaTek MT7986(Filogic 830) Quad core ARM Cortex A53+MT7531 chip design | ||
| SDRAM | 2 GB DDR4 | ||
| On board Storage | Nand flash,8GB eMMC onboard | ||
| On board Network | 2 2.5GbE Ethernet | ||
| Wifi | Wifi 6 4x4 2.4G Wifi(MT7975N) +4x4 5G Wifi(MT7975P) | ||
| 1x M.2 Key B interface | |||
| M.2 Key M | 1x M.2 KEY-M PCIe inerface | ||
| USB | 1 USB 2.0 | ||
| Buttons | Reset button,WPS botton, boot switch | ||
| 5 Leds | Power ,System, Wifi 2G ,Wifi 5G ,4G Lte ,SSD | ||
| DC Power | 20W/12V TypeC PD | ||
| Sizes | |||
| Weight | 100g | ||
SSD and 5G support
Resources
Source code
- Opensource Driver BSP
Documents
- BPI-R3 Mini DXF file : https://drive.google.com/file/d/1IoqG4o9SfWqgzOfeBqzOUJDo91EVPhjc/view?usp=sharing
- BPI-R3 schematic diagram :
- MT7986A_Datasheet_1.15 : https://drive.google.com/file/d/1t_nuPTeoAcFb1dmEe4kJVlLWdHcAA6OB/view?usp=sharing
- MT7986A_Reference_Manual_for_BPI-R3 : https://drive.google.com/file/d/1biSJmxnIpNzQroYDg9mtPtSTAv4i0DFf/view?usp=sharing
- Bananapi R3 review with WiFi / CPU benchmarks and power consumption numbers: https://wiki.junicast.de/en/junicast/review/bananapi-BPI-R3
Release image
OpenWRT
- BPI-R3 Mini OpenWRT image with opensource driver
- Google Drive:
- Baidu Cloud: https://pan.baidu.com/s/1dsDxsNPttjbqg-qr7bHNWA?pwd=8888 (pincode:8888)
FAQ
Accessories
Easy to buy sample
- BIPAI Aliexpress shop : https://www.aliexpress.com/item/1005005873750368.html?
- SINOVOIP Aliexpress shop: https://www.aliexpress.com/store/group/BPI-R3-Mini/1100417230_40000004378662.html?
- Taobao shop : https://item.taobao.com/item.htm?spm=a213gs.success.result.1.1bd14831HTwBxZ&id=730610953668
