On Tuesday 05 April 2005 16:52, Timothy Miller wrote: > Um... I'm really hesitant to do that. We did a parts cost estimate, > but I can't remember the number off hand, although I think it was > over $300. Note that this board would include a good number of > "debug" features, since that's its primary purpose, and that > increases cost. However, whatever it is, we have to price it > appropriately for development and overhead. Naturally, we don't > expect to sustain the business on it, but it does need to be > profitable.
I'm torn between wanting all the trimmings and wanting the price below $200, for the _prototype_ board. Can we have a list of costly debug features we can kick around? I know there are bits and pieces of debate on this back there in the archives, but that's a long way back. I don't think we should lose sight of "light and tight" even for the prototype board. I personally would not mind having to fall back to loading the fpga via jtag if the pci logic gets accidently destroyed, and thus be able to put the pci login on the fpga as originally planned. Does this save anything significant? I sure do not want blinking lights, led displays and that sort of thing. Regards, Daniel _______________________________________________ Open-graphics mailing list [email protected] http://lists.duskglow.com/mailman/listinfo/open-graphics List service provided by Duskglow Consulting, LLC (www.duskglow.com)
