MP101


The Netgear MP101 was the first of a series of digital media receivers by Netgear.

Family history

The Netgear MP101's family also includes other devices such as the MP115, the EVA700 and, the EVA8000.

Appearance

The Netgear MP101 is a small brushed silver unit that sits on your hi-fi rack and attempts to provide a link between your PC-based MP3 collection and your conventional hi-fi.

Concept

The MP101 requires a UPnP AV media server to provide access to digital media, while some other units (and the later EVA8000) can read from a Windows share directly (or a NAS device).

Netgear does not actually manufacture these devices; they are made instead by a third-party company and then marketed as a Netgear product.

Implementation

The MP101 is based on the ARM9 Marvell Libertas 88W8510H system-on-a-chip and has 8 MB of DRAM. Netgear licensed the ARM MP3 decoder software for use with the device.

The MP101 runs the open-source eCos real-time operating system – Netgear has made the source code available here.

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