On 12/1/06, Peter Stuge stuge-linuxbios@cdy.org wrote:
On Thu, Nov 30, 2006 at 07:44:47PM -0600, Bari Ari wrote:
Someone could fab these however as a 2 sided pcb with only the SMBus signals for next to nothing in cost.
I looked into this yesterday.
The place I normally order prototype boards from (Olimex) don't stock any 1.2mm laminate.
The place I order production boards from (local fab) do have 1.2mm laminate but the minimum order they do is one full panel (about .5m2)
- that means a big bag of boards. :)
If there's interest I'll be happy to make a DDR2 board that does high speed SPD<->USB.
I estimate they would go at $150 assembled or a bit cheaper as kits. (All SMD though.)
I need about 20 orders before starting it up, then roughly two months until they're shipping.
This is pretty special-purpose though. Perhaps time would be better spent on the LPC thingy, since they can be used for testing too.
I am missing something here. If we have enough of PCI up to do SPD->USB, I would bet that we have enough of it up to do USB debug? or not?
LPC is going away on many boards, I understand. I think that we are going into a world where we have to figure out usb debug port. I don't think that the PCI initial setup for USB debug is going to be impossible -- the vendors have to debug these boards too. All the boards I have used lately have a very straightforward path to USB, that could be set up in the ROMCC or CAR code.
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