[Arm-netbook] SO-DIMM Upgrade Proposal: CT-PC89E with an 833mhz S5PC100 and 1gb of RAM - anyone interested?

[Andrew M.A. Cater]

On Tue, Mar 30, 2010 at 03:38:45PM +0000, Luke Kenneth Casson Leighton wrote:
> ok, i decided that this is worth going ahead with, and i'd like to
> know if anyone would be interested in taking a bit of a risk (which
> will only mean more money, nothing else) and we commission a hardware
> engineer i know, who happens to be doing a PDA using the _exact_ same
> S5PC100 CPU, to create a cut-down version of the project he's doing
> and make it into an SO-DIMM.
> 
You've got £100 / USD $150 more of my money if you want :) Serial 
console please and/or JTAG as well if this is feasible.

Come back to me for more if needed.

> i have $2500 that i'm prepared to pay the hardware engineer for his
> time to do the design: that _won't_ however be enough to cover the
> cost of PCBs and components.  each PCB revision will likely be around
> ... $500 (i have to find out) for 10 boards, and the components at
> sample-pricing rates for each are likely to be.... guessing... $100
> (instead of $40 or so in mass-volume).
> 
> whatever the prices come out at (i've asked the hardware engineer to
> price things up), would anyone be interested in getting a stonking
> upgrade to their CT-PC89E, turning it into a device which has 1gb of
> NAND flash, can take a Micro-SD card actually on the SO-DIMM (so, no
> more bricking), 1gb of DDR RAM and the possibility of a 1gb S5PC110
> rather than the slower 833mhz S5PC100.  bear in mind that picking the
> faster CPU, it will obviously be slightly more expensive.
> 
> like i said: this hardware engineer _happens_ to already be doing a
> PDA using near-as-damnit the exact same components that are required:
> the PDA has WIFI and LVDS etc. etc. all of which won't be needed,
> because those are already on the CT-PC89E motherboard.
> 
> anyone interested, please say "aye", and say what specs you'd want,
> and what the maximum amount is that you'd be willing to pay to get it
> done.  i'm putting $2500 towards the project.   bear in mind that i've
> asked the hardware designer if he's prepared to do the SO-DIMM design
> as GPL-v3 licensed.
> 
> l.
> 
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