Messages in this thread | | | Date | Sat, 5 Sep 1998 10:01:28 -0400 (EDT) | From | Gregory Maxwell <> | Subject | Re: Build your own Motherboards (was Re: AMD K6 233 Cpu 465 BogoMips??) |
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On Sat, 5 Sep 1998, Alex Buell wrote: [snip] > > Even a more moderate idea (like designing an SMP mainboard for Power PC) > > can be pretty complex. The thing is it will cost a lot to produce a 6-7 > > levels board. It's not ham radio unfortunately :( > > Yes, but once you've done the design work, it's quite cheap to manufacture > them. It's the design & development that is the real killer here. >
Well the tooling costs alot, so you will have to commit to a certian fairly large number of units. (i.e. 1000)..
You could perhaps have an easier time adding features to make it a 'geek board': Say two PPC chips (with cache please :) ), a TMS320C6701 DSP (@167mhz doing single point it gets 1Gflop!), lotsa digital and analog IO ports... cool stuff like that, I'd spend $700 on it (providing the PPCs were reasonably fast)..
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