On Oct 15, 2006, at 2:08 PM, luc wrote:
Le dimanche 15 octobre 2006 à 12:08 -0400, Nick S-A a écrit :
On Oct 14, 2006, at 1:49 PM, Daniel Rozsnyó wrote:
Nice project, yes, and the document is nice too.
The one problem is that there are many different types of interfaces
to LCDs and almost all have varying connections to the main board. I
am only interested in a single display, so it doesn't matter for me,
but if we are trying to sell a board that has an LCD interface, it
might cause unwanted havoc with people thinking they can just plug in
the LCD and go.
Does the one problem imply to make a daughterboard for each different
interfaces ?
That is one solution that we could try, but another option is to have
a daughterboard with a few common connectors wired up, and then
either sell or direct to another store that sells adapters between
connector types. either way could work.
http://www.epanorama.net/wwwboard/messages/1911.html
This and numerous other sites continue to tell people that building
their own interface is not worth it, and they should just buy an
external monitor. If we integrated a laptop interface into an IDC
daughterboard, it would be very easy to get a large group of people
interested in buying the card. With the current number of I/O
available on the daughtercard, it would not be very difficult to also
have other extensions of interest on a pass-through board, or on the
same board as the LCD interface.
thoughts?
It seems effectively interesting as laptop's LCD tend to be larger.
More
generally the IDC connector could be a mean to extend the OGD's
market.
Though, do you speak only about OGD1 or as well about OGC? Because, I
don't know if OGC would have an IDC connector.
I didn't realize that OGC wasn't going to have the IDC connector, but
I suppose that makes sense if it is going to be an ASIC. If OGC isn't
going to have an IDC connector, we could always put the LCD connector
on the main board (assuming we want to have an LCD connector). It
should probably be up on the top of the board, where it is easiest to
attach to a display (and since it will be half-height, the LVDS
cables won't be pinched up there).
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