On Thursday, July 25, 2013 10:27:57 AM UTC-4, Tsvetan wrote: > > our AM3352-SOM prototypes were assembled today > > http://olimex.wordpress.com/2013/07/25/am3352-som-module-with-1ghz-sitara-cortex-a8-soc-prototypes-are-ready/ > > we test them now and they boot Debian hf for BeagleBoneBlack successfully >
This is very interesting ... I'm thinking about building a board based on the AM335x. Right now I'm building capes with the additional RF modules I need, it works well enough, but I'd rather have a single, custom board (hopefully cheaper and requires less assembly!). However, there's a big difference between designing and producing a simple, low component count cape and a complete SOC based linux system such as yours (or the BBB/RPi etc). Do you (or anyone else!) have any thoughts or insight about the process of building a custom board such as this? You mention the cost as being €26 ea. in quantities of 1K, can you share any numbers on design costs (or was that in house) and setup costs for a run. Your board seems quite close both in features (aside from my RF modules) and price to what I'm looking to build. BTW: I have looked at Gumstix's Geppetto <https://geppetto.gumstix.com/>, but there doesn't seem to be enough options as yet, and by building a AM335x based board, (as you mention) the software support is excellent. Thanks. -- For more options, visit http://beagleboard.org/discuss --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "BeagleBoard" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
