[Arm-netbook] Allwinner A10 - Expected Tablet Costs and PCIe

[Michelle Konzack]

Hello Luke Kenneth Casson Leighton,

Am 2011-11-15 00:52:43, hacktest Du folgendes herunter:
> > Otherwise, it would be notable to support 4 x GigaEthernet and 2 PCIe 4x
> > which can be each splited into 4 PCIe 1x.
> 
>  i'd _really_ like to fit what you're doing into the EOMA stuff.  i
> was planning to add these kinds of interfaces as a (pretty much)
> non-interoperable alternative standard.
> 
>  what do you think, however, of doing something like... re-use of
> say... the PCI-e card form-factor?   MXM has already been done, and
> it's too small for this.

I am thinking of making anything modular, but have to  check  this  with
the chip manufacturers.

Currently I do not know, how to configure one of the PCIe  4x  ports  to
support one 4x and four 1x On-Board.

I mean, I configure ony PCIe port, to  support  4  Mini-PCIe  cards  and
design the PCB to have the cards in direction front of the PC.
the second PCIe 4x I will place it on a expansion board where I like  to
have a PCIe 4x Riser-Slot, BUT it must be build to block the 4 Mini-PCIe
cards.  Which mean, you can have only one 4x or four 1x.

Something like:

    +------+------+-+------+-+------+--------+--------------------+
    |      |      | |      | |      | |      |                    |
    | +-+  |      | |      | |      | |      |                    |
    | |P|  |PCIe 5| |PCIe 6| |PCIe 7| |PCIe 8|                    |
    | |C|  |      | |      | |      | |      |    PMIC, ...       |
    | |I|  |  1x  | |  1x  | |  1x  | |  1x  |                    |
    | |e|  |      | |      | |      | |      |                    |
    | | |  +======+ +======+ +======+ +======+                    |
    | |4|                                                         |
    | |x|                     PMIC, ...                           |
    | +-+                                                         |
    +--------------------HHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH------------------------+
    |                                                          +--+
    | +-----------------+                              SATA3   |  |eSATA
    | |                 |                              SATA3   |  |eSATA
    | |    SO-DIMM      |   Here is enough space               +--+
    | |                 |   for the NAND Flash                    |
    | +=================+   MV78200 (heatsink required)     +-----+
    |                                                       | SD  |
    |  +======+ +======+ +======+ +======+                  |card |
    |  |      | |      | |      | |      |                  +-----+
    |  |      | |      | |      | |      |                        |
    |  |PCIe 1| |PCIe 2| |PCIe 3| |PCIe 4|        4xGigaEth   24V |
    |  |      | |      | |      | |      | USB2 +--+--+--+--+ +-+ |
    |  |  1x  | |  1x  | |  1x  | |  1x  | +--+ |  |  |  |  | | | |
    |  |      | |      | |      | |      | |  | |  |  |  |  | | | |
    +--+------+-+------+-+------+-+------+-+--+-+--+--+--+--+-+-+-+

Unfortunately this PIG will be in total bigger as a Mini-ITX (170x170mm)
but is the design, I like to use in my PanelPC.

What do you think?

> l.

Thanks, Greetings and nice Day/Evening
    Michelle Konzack

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