Re: [casper] approximate cost of next gen CASPER hardware

Thanks for the refresher, Dan. A doubling of bandwidth by simple ADC replacement is not available, and I recall now I have covered this ground with you before. Might one budget a cost similar to the Atmel/E2V chip for the National Dual 1.5 GHz? Thanks, Jonathan On Sep 13, 2008, at

Re: [casper] approximate cost of next gen CASPER hardware

Hi Jonathan, I don't have exact numbers, but went through the math some six years ago when we produced the VSIB boards. A batch of ten boards is a seriously bad idea. In our case the startup cost was about half of the total cost, we produced one hundred boards. Most significant was the cost