> > > Regarding design specs, there are innumerable open designs available, > including hawkboard and beagle board. Designing the schematic is > almost trivial. Desigining the layout is only a little more > laborious. Fabricating a four layer PCB is not difficult either but > is an economy problem for small volumes < 500. Also a 4 layer board > would be relatively big. Inorder to make it compact, the pcb would > have to be 6 layer probably with bilind/buried vias. This makes the > pcb more expensive, ie volumes of < 1000 per lot will be expensive (i > have been getting mails from chinses vendors for volumes as low as 10 > though). However no black art involved in any of the above, except > the costs. > > IIT Kanpur has facility to fabricate 8 layer PCB and I think I read somewhere that the PCB for this was fabricated at IITK
http://www.iitk.ac.in/ee/labs/lab.php?labcode=rlab_pcb -- http://mm.glug-bom.org/mailman/listinfo/linuxers
