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Sent: Sunday, January 22, 2006 10:54
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Subject: Re: [Xylo-SDR] Teamspeak FPGA
discussion - Have we paintedourselvesinto a corner? Boxed ourselves in?
Leon
Just a quick comment
going back through the messages.
In this country the
military has almost unlimited funding and lotsa free samples. The Wolfson rep
and distributor when he came and gave me the 20 Wolfson chips, showed me a box
of connectors which would make the din 41612 look like a ?Sick Puppy?. Some of
them ranged into the low triple digits in cost, but they WERE beautiful! We
are not the military, so we gotta be thinking universal, cheap, and off the
shelf. We MUST have universal appeal, not universal cost and as little
individual outlay as possible. Also we are designing a prototyping system
which becomes a product NOT a $2000+ FPGA OR $200 dollar Xylo board which have
no group appeal beyond ?fooling around?, wether commercial or hobbiest. We
will survive as a group or not survive at all, each with different and
valuable qualifications and interests as to where this can go. Otherwise your
hard work with the ?Leon<?> Lion FPGA? part goes
for naught, and becomes just another competitor on the Xylo market. This group
formed rapidly and was given impressive resources like SVN, Web Page, Forum,
Reflector in a matter of a week. NOT to forget Bill ? KD5TFD and Phil VK6APH
who are not following the ?enclosure? stuff carefully, but dead bugging and
proving that IT WILL WORK! Astounding! But why? Because they saw
something of universal appeal and design and contributed their non-fpga
expertise. To steal a line from Jim Lux about absolutes: ?What makes you think
that the DIN41612 is the ONLY way to go??
In terms of
prototyping and manufacturing costs, I don't think we have any other option.
They aren't expensive, and I can even make boards at home for next to nothing
that use them (I have done that for the 64-way ones), quite
easily.
Leon
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