Today we’ll be taking a look at the D-Link AirPlus Xtreme G Wireless Router – a 4 port 10/100 ethernet and wireless router with 1 external antenna which has a date code of 2005/15th week.
Two screws later and we’re in.
At first glance the PCB is quite big and there’s a bit of empty space on it, they could have made it smaller if they really wanted to. We’ve got 4 chips plus a Wifi chip underneath the metal shield, an MPS MP1410ES SMPS on the input which can accept 5V to 15V, an ADE435 voltage regular near the metal shield and we have two AME AME8807 LDOs. Also we’ve got some tantalum capacitors which haven’t been too common in the routers I’ve seen.
They have 1 antenna connector going to the outside but also have one made on the PCB too.
Underneath the metal shield we’ve got an Atheros Ar2112A chip with a 40MHz oscillator and two smaller chips a MSC5510 power amplifier and another chip labelled as 506 1802 21 with the antenna trace coming out from it.
If you look closely near the top right there is a small bit of PCB with a thin wave trace for the RF.
Atheros AR2313 SoC
Not a whole lot on the main chip, just a Wiki entry
AR2313A-00
ISSI 64Mbit SDRAM
IC42S16400
MX 8Mbit Flash
29LV800BBTC-70
Marvel 10/100 Ethernet PHY
With 25MHz crystal nearby
88E6060
And that’s all.
