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On Fri, Aug 26, 2016 at 4:24 AM, Christopher Havel <[email protected]> wrote: > On Thu, Aug 25, 2016 at 11:19 PM, Luke Kenneth Casson Leighton > <[email protected]> wrote: >> >> On Fri, Aug 26, 2016 at 4:14 AM, Christopher Havel >> <[email protected]> wrote: >> >> > The honest truth is that the triple-fistful of passives in there should >> > be >> > replaced by a trio of dedicated flash-DAC chips -- far less crude and >> > far >> > more effective. >> >> .... but about $12 - as much as the rest of the BOM! - compared to around >> $1 > > > But it's the *professional* way to do it. I'd say it's worth the extra money > not to have a bunch of EEs not faint dead away on the sight of it... not to > mention all the four-letter words Dave Jones will spout when he gets his > mitts on one... ;) trust me, he'll make the air bright blue. lol - well if i can find a LOW COST RGB/TTL-to-VGA converter IC - i remember there was one from Chrontel that i saw used in the gpl-violating CT-PC89e years back - then i'll *consider* it. i'll have to spend at least 2 weeks on doing a redesign plus component sourcing.... it's a lot of extra time. bear in mind that we set the pledge levels based on component sourcing... l. _______________________________________________ arm-netbook mailing list [email protected] http://lists.phcomp.co.uk/mailman/listinfo/arm-netbook Send large attachments to [email protected]
