Re: [oc] OCRP-1

[Jamie Morken <jmorken@home.com>]

Hi Mike,

The fpga will be totally reprogrammable on the board.  The fpga's circuit is
stored in a non-volatile memory and whenever you turn the board on it loads the
circuit into the fpga.  To write to the non-volatile memory you will need
download cable.

Regards,
Jamie Morken

Mike Goelzer wrote:

> Hello folks,
>
> I too would be interested in an assembled board.  It sounds like there are
> a lot of people who feel this way.  So, the question is, how many people do
> we need to find before the cost of an assembled board becomes reasonable?
> I'd probably be willing to pay $100 to $200.  Is this even in the ballpark?
>
> By the way, if these assembled boards do ever materialize, would they be
> assembled in such a way that the FPGA is reprogrammable?  Ideally, the FPGA
> would be in a ZIF socket or something so that a person could play around
> with changing the logic.  (or maybe even reprogrammable in the circuit?)
> I'm not a big hardware expert as you can probably tell, and I haven't built
> a computer since the days of the Intel 8085, but will this be a possibility?
>
> Mike
>
> P.S.  Is there any central list somewhere of who is interested in
> assembled/unassembled boards?  Would it help to create a database somewhere
> so that people could enter their names and Damjan would know how many
> people wanted these boards?  I'd be glad to do this if help is needed.  I
> didn't see anything like this on opencores.org, but maybe I am just missing
> something...
>
> At 02:44 PM 3/25/00 +0700, Sarwono Sutikno wrote:
> >
> >Dear Joerg,
> >
> >I interested at assembled and tested OCRP-I.
> >Can you calculate the price of assembled and tested OCRP-I?
> >
> >Best regards from Bandung, INDONESIA
> >
> >Sarwono Sutikno
> >
> >On Fri, 24 Mar 2000,
> >WM wrote: > Hi folks,
> >>
> >> as I announced earlier I like your project and try to support it whereever
> >> possible.
> >> I can offer to run the PCB production with our contract partners.
> >> We can also offer packages with components or assembled boards.
> >>
> >> The plain PCB (complete electronicly tested!) we can offer for USD 30,-
> >> Worldwide shipping adds another few dollars of course.
> >>
> >> we might calculate a set with all or just all "hard to find" components and
> >> assembled boards.
> >>
> >> If there is enough interest we can ship boards within two weeks.
> >>
> >> Best regards
> >> Joerg
> >>
> >> At 21:18 23.03.00 +0100, you wrote:
> >> >
> >> >Currently there is about 12 candidates for OCRP-1. Some expressed interest
> >> >to get fully assembled and tested boards. Situation:
> >> >
> >> >- bare PCBs are no problem. Price listed on the web for one piece is for
> >> >ordering 20 PCBs at the manufacturer. If there will be less than 20
> >> >candidates then the prices might be a bit higher (10-20 %). More than 20
> >> >candidates lowers the prices but not much. It is very probable that I
> order
> >> >PCBs next week.
> >> >- assembled boards might be a problem since I must first buy all componets
> >> >and find a company that will solder them at a good price. This could be a
> >> >problem since assembly and verification of 10-20 boards could be very
> >> >expensive. That is way I prefer bare PCBs.
> >> >
> >> >I'll forward more information when I get more information about assembly
> >> >prices and perhaps gather more candidates for OCRP-1. Expect this to
> happen
> >> >next week.
> >> >
> >> >regards, Damjan
> >>
> >>
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> >