2011/2/2 Matt Sealey <[email protected]> > On Wed, Feb 2, 2011 at 10:02 AM, Gordan Bobic <[email protected]> wrote: > This is exactly where you will get if you're trying to massage the > Tegra2, MX53, OMAP4 into a high end laptop; it will not meet your > expectations. They are not designed for those environments. Tegra and > OMAP4 are phone/tablet chips almost entirely focused on Android. MX53 > is for in-flight entertainment, Ford Sync, handheld media tablets, > that kind of thing. Remember when you think about speeds on devices, > they are always listed as maximums. Yes, SATA-II is 3Gbit/s (actually > about 2.4Gbit after you get past the 10-8 encoding) but does a device > need to run at that? Not at all. USB 480Mbit/s? Nope. > > You can't design a system, keep it cheap and make it a volume seller > by just picking the chips with the biggest numbers.
The trick is, pick one component and select all other components as cheap as possible, but still not bottlenecking the whole system. I got rather small experience in System design, but if you intend to do so, get some money-monkey keeping an eye on the BOM and timeline. Just my 2 cents. Regards Bernhard Schuster
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