Tom Sylla wrote: > rsmith and I had been discussing that the past couple of weeks. I plan > to just make one, and see how much it costs. The PLCC plug-in > doohickey is always the problem, the cheapest I can find is 30USD (qty > one, small discounts for more). My plan is minimum 8Mb, using a CPLD
After some digging I found a much cheaper source. Segor electronics ( http://www.segor.de/ ) sells single PLCC32 plug-ins for 14.00 Euro (including 16% german sales tax). Quantities above 10 cost 11.20 Euro per part. If you're ordering from the US, you can get a tax refund (or maybe the tax won't even be applied in the first place). http://www.segor.de/bilder/000066d5.jpg has an image. Ordering information (where to find it in their catalogue): Hauptgruppe: Steckverbinder/Fassungen Obergruppe: Converter und Programmieradapter Warengruppe: PLCC-Stecker Artikelbezeichnung: PLCC32-Steck > The big hazard to this is that SPI is going to take off as the boot > source soon (it is in most modern southbridges already). Talking SPI > is not a problem, but the ROMs are all going to be soldered down, so > running in emulator mode takes on a whole new level of pain. This > project is doomed to quick obselence. Wait a second. You mean socketed flash chips won't be present on future mainboards? Are there no socketed SPI chips or will the ROM storage itself be integrated into the south bridge? > When done, I would open the design fully, so anyone could build one, > or modify it to their heart's content. > > Please reply to me how many of these things you would buy for $50. $75? Given that I'm a university student with limited budget, I'd appreciate a target price of $30-40. Of course this may be totally infeasible depending on how expensive the parts are. Regards, Carl-Daniel -- linuxbios mailing list [email protected] http://www.openbios.org/mailman/listinfo/linuxbios
