On 2/20/07, Josephblack <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
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?
There isn't much practical value in offering a budget model. It's more of a marketing strategy. Although we may make less profit for every low-end board we sell, its presence may boost the sales of the mid and high-end products, thereby boosting total profit. Also, the major challenge in testing OGD1 is that we want to make sure that the PCB wiring is correct. That's much easier said than done. Once we know that the board is right, we can make many alterations to how we populate the board. To put on a different FPGA with the same number of pins, for instance, or depopulate RAMs, we do not require any testing of the DESIGN. So, doing this won't affect our schedule. It's a matter of pricing out different parts options. Of course, we need to price it for ourselves before we can come up with a list price, but we can be confident that those different models will all WORK (short of individual unit manufacturing flaws). We'll price the standard model first, and we'll announce the list price along with a statement that we're working on pricing out high-end and an economy model, and we'll be announcing prices on those thenceforth.
how much lower do we need?
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