cmiu wrote: > Hi, > > kudos for the project (both hardware and software) > > When the final board will be ready it will be possible to buy only the > carrier board? in my case I already have a quad wandboard and i don't > want to buy another cpu board for the moment. > > Did you take in consideration to involve more people in the development > of the driver for the new carrier board? If I understand correctly this > is the main choke point at the moment. > > After you will finish this project maybe you will take in consideration > to make another carrier board with only ethernet, i2s connector and usb > for the people who already have an USB dac or DIY hardcores :) > > KR > Catalin
Numerous requests have been made for people to help with driver writing, but nobody has expressed any interest, are you volunteering? Yes we always plan to have just the carrier board available. You can do everything you mentioned right now with the wandboard as is, it comes with a USB host port that works with most USB DACs and the I2S pins are available on the IO connectors on the wandboard. JackOfAll is working on an I2S driver that will work with that. The one thing a DIY type might be missing is a way to get an external clock into the processor. The signals for this are on the module (which is one of the reasons for choosing the wandboard in the first place), BUT is not brought out to the IO connectors. The CSP1 carrier board WILL have the I2S and external clock signals on an internal connector. I'm not sure a separate board will be developed just for this purpose, we are getting some economies of scale here and producing a board that only a few people are going to want is going to wind up costing more than the full blown board with everything on it. If someone really wants the board without the DAC chips and headphone amp they can unsolder those parts. John S. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ JohnSwenson's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=5974 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=97881 _______________________________________________ discuss mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/discuss
