[Arm-netbook] EOMA server standard

[Simon Kenyon]

On 10/26/12 18:58, luke.leighton wrote:
>   no.  absolutely not.  whatever the cost of that chip is, it's
> automatically too much.  see b), below, which i note conspicuously you
> didn't reply to or say "fair enough" or anything :)
>
>   it could be $0.50 for that chip, but automatically that's too much,
> esp. as that could be *greater* than the entire profit margin for a
> mass-volume 100 million+ units product.
>
>>> b) for a 5 to 7in tablet with a low-cost 800x480 LCD (or a 480x320 or
>>> even less), in the critical price-sensitive bracket, you'd need a
>>> converter IC from composite video over to the low-cost RGB/TTL 800x480
>>> LCDs.

so have a completely separate standard. call it EOMA-136.
use a double height card and have two connectors (for which existing 
slot hardware already exists). the casework would be custom but 
constructing the card would not be difficult with two pcbs with 68-pin 
connectors bolted together with the correct spacing. could use a pin and 
socket arrangement to join them electrically.

double the pins and double the pcb real estate.

sometimes one size does not fit all
--
simon