On 21/02/07, Timothy Normand Miller <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
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. :)
just a thought about the 3 cards - Debugging the current board took
time. For our first board, is this likely to hold us back from moving
to the stage of developing the graphics system?
If someone wants to pay less, they could contribute to the project and
then they qualify for an OGP subsidy or help out more and get an OHF
subsidy.
We already have several [rough / wild guess] prices:
Traversal say.. $1500 less nice discounts (helping save up for our
asic) <OGD1 page>
OGP developer price $600<OGD1 page>
OHF subsidised price $300 <wild guess>
OHF may even offer a full subsidy price $0 (a couple or a few?<wild guess>)
how much lower do we need?
Could we leave the 3 options for the PCIx board?
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