On Wed, 2005-02-02 at 14:15, Timothy Miller wrote: > Another note: Our other hardware engineer who is looking at this said > that he fully intended, using ADV parts, that the DVI would be separate. > > This puts us in the following position: > > (1) Standard video will be something like the ADV7312 plus single-link > DVI and cost about $15 in parts. > > (2) We'll put on an extra footprint for an additional DVI transmitter. > If someone wants dual-link (like for the Apple panel), they can pay an > extra manufacturing/processing/parts fee to have the extra chip added. > > (3) If you want to solder on the extra chip yourself, we'll tell you > how, but it would probably void your warranty. > > > Comments?
To me it seem a possible options but I do see one or 2 potential problem. One of them is the card estate that you work on. We already have a FPGA, a serial eprom, eeprom for the card bios, 4 memory chip, the power supply section and now your talking to add potentially 3 more chip? Sorry but I can't see how it will all fit in. Also during production each additional chip add the probability of a defect and a additinal cost. Myself I would like to a single chip solution for the display if possible. I know the connexant is a closed part but if it can reduce the card necesary estate and free some space on the FPGA, because each extra chip will add some, well it is a needed evil. And nobody said that this chip can't be reverse enginnered. :) _______________________________________________ Open-graphics mailing list [email protected] http://lists.duskglow.com/mailman/listinfo/open-graphics List service provided by Duskglow Consulting, LLC (www.duskglow.com)
