Dear Casperites, Just a reminder to indicate your interest in ROACH/ROACH2 in the future on this survey:
http://www.surveymonkey.com/s/ZG7T98F We are going to close the survey soon. Regards, Francois On Mon, Sep 23, 2013 at 7:43 PM, Alec Rust <[email protected]> wrote: > Dear Casper Collaborator, > > If you are planning to procure ROACH1 or ROACH2 boards in the next 5 > years, please read this email and please respond to this survey (see the > link to the survey below). > > Thank you. > > The PowerPC (PPC) embedded processor chip, used on both the ROACH1 and > ROACH2 boards, is being discontinued. > > We need to do a "lifetime purchase" soon. Digicom has generously offered > to purchase a batch of these chips in anticipation of future orders of > ROACH1 and ROACH2 boards. > > The safest thing to do to ensure you'll have PPC chips available for the > roach boards you might need, is to purchase these chips yourself and keep > them in your stock or at Digicom (with your name on them) for potential > future builds. The PPC chips cost about $50 each. If you are planning > large projects we would recommend you buy the chips yourself as Digicom can > not be expected to take the risk on large orders. Recommended part numbers > will be sent in a separate email. > > Or you can hope that Digicom will have them in stock or that you and > Digicom will be able to purchase them when you need the chips. > > So that digicom can estimate the number of PPC chips needed, can you > please fill out the survey at: > > http://www.surveymonkey.com/s/ZG7T98F > > > Please fill out a survey form for each of your potential upcoming > projects. > (you can click on the link above multiple times). > > This survey requests name of your project(s), the probability that the > project will happen, and the years you might need the boards, and > whether you plan to the purchase PPC chips yourself and set them aside > for your projects. > > Please respond within the next week. > > Thanks for responding to this survey. >
