On 2/20/07, Philipp Klaus Krause <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Timothy Normand Miller schrieb:
> Actually, it's a common marketing tactic to have 3 models of
> something. People feel better than if they got the low-end model but
> didn't pay as much as the high-end model. What should we remove from
> OGD1 to make a low-end model?
>
Remove DVI head one, S-video output and half of the memory. The
resulting board could still be used for serious development and will be
useful for those that want to help develop the graphics card (or
something else), but don't have that much money.
We would want to remove those parts, but not so much because of their
individual costs. The PCB and the Spartan FPGA are also quite
expensive. We may want to drop to a 3S2000, but I have the nagging
feeling that there isn't a 900-whatever-pin version of that part, so
that may not be possible.
The irony is that the low-end model will actually have more overhead
and handling costs, because its sales volumes are likely to be much
lower. Psychology can be expensive. :)
--
Timothy Normand Miller
http://www.cse.ohio-state.edu/~millerti
Favorite book: The Design of Everyday Things, Donald A. Norman, ISBN
0-465-06710-7
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