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Summary

Banana Pi BPI-R3 Mini with MediaTek MT7986(Filogic 830)

Banana Pi BPI-R3 with MediaTek MT7986(Filogic 830)

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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+MT7531 chip design
. Wifi 6 4x4 2.4G Wifi(MT7975N) +4x4 5G Wifi(MT7975P)
. 2G DDR RAM
. 8G eMMC flash
. 2 2.5GbE network port
. M.2 Key B PCIe inerface
. M.2 KEY M PCIe inerface
. USB interface

Getting Start

Getting Started with BPI-R3

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	12V/2A with DC ,TypeC interface
Sizes
Weight	100g

SSD and 5G support

Resources

Source code

Official BPI-R3 kernel v5.15 + firmware repo:

https://github.com/BPI-SINOVOIP/BPI-R3-bsp-5.15

Official OpenWrt 21.02 for BPI-R3 repo:

https://github.com/BPI-SINOVOIP/BPI-R3-OPENWRT-V21.02.3

Instructions:https://forum.banana-pi.org/t/banana-pi-bpi-r3-openwrt-image/13236/4

Notes:
Baidu link: https://pan.baidu.com/s/1JSQ7wJTCeK4JqWR_XB-LLQ?pwd=6vdb (Pincode: 6vdb)
Google link:https://drive.google.com/file/d/13nQMfM0_XTyWcILhNxv_9E4TIvb65RI0/view?usp=sharing

Frank’s U-Boot repo:

https://github.com/frank-w/u-boot/tree/2023-04-bpi

Frank’s BPI-R3 kernel v6.1 repo

https://github.com/frank-w/BPI-Router-Linux/tree/6.1-main

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
[Tutorial] Build, customize and use MediaTek open-source U-Boot and ATF : https://forum.banana-pi.org/t/tutorial-build-customize-and-use-mediatek-open-source-u-boot-and-atf/13785
BPI-R3 OpenSource Routerboard how to burn and test imagehttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xaf_SC7fPDM
BPI-R3 CE,FCC,RoHS certificate : https://banana-pi.org/en/bpi-honor/
Banana Pi BPI-R3 Review: Details, Pricing, & Features : https://androidpimp.com/embedded/banana-pi-bpi-r3-router-board/?fbclid=IwAR1G4cEco5iULwKG-C-n8MIiWOWZMhPborqmCzS2d3KIHx-eNQS-54lZnps
Update OpenWrt to 22.03.3 SNAPSHOT:https://forum.banana-pi.org/t/bananapi-bpi-r3-update-openwrt-to-22-03-3-snapshot/14984
3D printed cases:https://forum.banana-pi.org/t/banana-bpi-r3-3d-printed-case/14246/43
Cooling solutions topic: https://forum.banana-pi.org/t/bpi-r3-running-hot/14750
Bananapi R3 review with WiFi / CPU benchmarks and power consumption numbers: https://wiki.junicast.de/en/junicast/review/bananapi-BPI-R3

Release image

OpenWRT

Latest official OpenWRT snapshot image:

https://firmware-selector.openwrt.org/?version=SNAPSHOT&target=mediatek%2Ffilogic&id=bananapi_bpi-r3

2022-07-20 udptae BPI-R3 OpenWRT 21.02 linux kernel 5.4, wifi 6 2.4G and 5G mac80211 opensource wifi driver working fine support nand flash ,SD card ,eMMC flash boot. for BPI-R3 production version hardware

Google Drive:https://drive.google.com/file/d/13nQMfM0_XTyWcILhNxv_9E4TIvb65RI0/view?usp=share_link

Baidu Cloud: https://pan.baidu.com/s/1-5tqHEacMw1wlTSEK1ey9A?pwd=8888 (pincode: 8888)

2022-06-01udptae BPI-R3 OpenWRT 21.02 linux kernel 5.4, wifi 6 2.4G and 5G working fine support nand flash ,SD card ,eMMC flash boot. for BPI-R3 production version hardware

Google drive :https://drive.google.com/file/d/18_xst-diDdCg7CeSum1M5FDbbo31jFJq/view?usp=drivesdk

Baidu link: https://pan.baidu.com/s/1idqU1-bB4XD1LTGDAJxRGA?pwd=chez Pincode: chez

Discuss on forum : https://forum.banana-pi.org/t/banana-pi-bpi-r3-openwrt-image/13236

2022-09-28 udptae BPI-R3 OpenWRT 21.02 linux kernel 5.4, wifi 6 2.4G and 5G working fine support nand flash ,SD card ,eMMC flash boot, support EC25 LTE 4G

Modules for BPI-R3 production version hardware

Google drive: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1oNcnIl8bDla9pPWUd-TFPXXphsCMsJt0/view?usp=sharing

Baidu link: https://pan.baidu.com/s/1v4sKfAuax3AfHNtp_2RP_g?pwd=mebq (Pincode: mebq)