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

Hi Jonathan, A few more ideas how to keep costs down... We found out that producing 50 PCBs instead of 20 or 100 instead of 50 had a relatively small incremental cost, maybe 25% or even less. The price does not fall signifivantly after that (exceptin very big quantities). In my opinion it

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

[casper] approximate cost of next gen CASPER hardware

Can someone please advise rough numbers (which one might use in a funding proposal), for the cost to fabricate, assemble and test Roach PCBs? Please assume donated FPGAs, or break out their cost). This application does not not use large volumes, so assume a run of say 10 boards. Also,

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

hi jonathan, we expect roach boards will be about $2500 each, plus FPGA. you'll need to add DRAM ($50 min), ATX enclosure ($100), and ATX power supply ($50). there are several ADC boards you can use, but only two ADC board that can sample 1 Gsps currently available: a) the Atmel/E2V dual