> You must make sure that not only does your supply provide the peak current >needed, it must also respond fast enough to current changes and the >resulting dI/dT induced voltage swings must be restrained by appropriate >decoupling.
I'm hoping that by making the specs public people like you can/will give feedback. >If you get this part wrong, you probably won't notice it until you've shipped >enough machines that somebody out there ran some software that drove the CPU >through a big enough current swing to droop your supply and cause a >malfunction. Does the GPL apply here ;) >It takes major engineering talent to identify and resolve this if it >happens. LAD! >The best advice you got so far is to dissect a laptop and do what they do. >Even better, hire yourself a consultant who knows this area, and she can keep >you >out of trouble. I'm hoping that enough people will be interested in this project that it can be considered Open source. -- Patrick Shirkey - Boost Hardware Ltd For the discerning hardware connoisseur Http://www.boosthardware.com Http://www.boosthardware.com/LAU/guide/ _____________________________________________________________ Want a new web-based email account ? ---> http://www.firstlinux.net _____________________________________________________________ Run a small business? Then you need professional email like [EMAIL PROTECTED] from Everyone.net http://www.everyone.net?tag
