On 3/20/06, Dieter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > The real question is the price of the ASIC production board. > I assume that 10 bit DAC also raises the price of the > ASIC production board $20? What is the target price of the > ASIC production board? If the target price is US$50-75, > then an extra $20 is pretty significant precentage-wise. > If the target price is $200-300, then $20 is less significant.
We want to have the DACs integrated into the ASIC. I'm just guessing, but I'll bet that any ASIC with a video DAC option will probably be 10-bit by default. I could be wrong, but I cannot imagine this would add anything to the cost of the ASIC. > There was a question of how many pins the PCI interface needed, > and maybe there would be enough pins without the LVDS buffers. > Has this been resolved? Yes and no. If we decide to go ahead and use single-ended LVDS buffers, that will free up more extra pins than we need for just video. I have some things I'd like to use those for. The problem is the time and added cost necessary to for the extra LVDS buffer chips. The routing may not be a huge problem (1/2 as many signals come away from the FPGA to the high-speed video section), but we're going to be tight on space. For that matter, just because you've freed up a pin doesn't mean you can necessarily practically use it for something else. _______________________________________________ Open-graphics mailing list [email protected] http://lists.duskglow.com/mailman/listinfo/open-graphics List service provided by Duskglow Consulting, LLC (www.duskglow.com)
