I agree with Travis. I have built boards using the BBB as a base. Verify everything - as you should if you're modifying the design. You shouldn't assume that everything is correct - especially since this is a port of the original design. I also added a 2nd Ethernet port and made other modifications to suit our project's needs. It is not backward compatible to the BBB at this point I opted for RMII for the ports - requires software changes - there are posts on this. We are still in the bring up of these boards - all is going well. So do your homework, examine the design, double / triple check everything and make it yours.
Good Luck on your endeavor, Matt On Monday, October 27, 2014 9:58:30 AM UTC-5, Travis Estep wrote: > > Although I have not built any boards from the files, I have studied both > the schematic and the PCB file extensively. I have not found any errors in > either of them. Although it needs to be said that I am not the kind of > engineer that Gerald and his layout guy are. > > If you have an engineer who plans to modify the boards to fit your > project, he should be able to do a thorough check to see if any errors > exist. My suggestion is to run a small batch of boards exactly as they are > in the file. Verify they work. Then make any changes you need to the design > and run them again. This will tell you if the problem already existed or if > you introduced the problem with your changes. That's the approach I'm > taking at this point, although I don't plan to make a commercial product. I > should have a small shipment of bare boards in a couple of months. But I > don't plan to do a true end to end test. My hobby project only cares about > a few core functions. > -- 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/d/optout.
