[Arm-netbook] flying squirrel 7in tablet: 1st PCB layout attempt

[Alejandro Mery]

On 9 January 2013 01:08, luke.leighton <luke.leighton at gmail.com> wrote:
> http://rhombus-tech.net/community_ideas/kde_tablet/news/
>
> i've absolutely no experience at this stuff, but have been quietly going
> ahead with a preliminary layout, mostly to stop chinese ODMs from trying to
> charge $16k for PCB layout and from trying to tell me how complex this all
> must be.
>
> we've now found a designer who isn't freaked out by the weirdness of using
> an embedded STM32F, and the design will be transferred over to him in the
> next couple of weeks.
>
> also the PCB is designed to give all the EOMA68 interfaces *and* access to
> the spare pins of a 100-pin STM32F, which comes to about 25 extra pins,
> plus, now that i think about it, there's 3 extra from the GPIO of the EOMA68
> as well.
>
> the CPU Cards: the processors have been re-seated on a few of the PCBs,
> which now has them at least appearing on FEL boot.  whether the DDR3 RAM
> works, HDMI or anything else we don't know at this phase.  chances are good
> that SD/MMC works.  so if nothing else there will be demo units for clients,
> so things can get moving there.
>
> the designer will be asked to do a pass-through card so that the tablet can
> be tested by plugging its screen and touchpanel into a PC, and also the
> embedded software can be written, that way, independently.

awesome news! this is finally starting to take shape. love it! :D