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On Fri, Dec 23, 2016 at 7:02 AM, John Luke Gibson eaterjolly@gmail.com wrote:
Obviously it's been mentioned before, since it's on the <a href=http://rhombus-tech.net/adapteva/>wiki</a>. There isn't much information on the page however. The core doesn't work standalone, however it is completely open with an HDL and a schematic; it is in the direction that a puristic libre system would be if not "technically" all the way there. The board itself has both(I think?) an arm and a x86 on board, simply because adapteva is too new to have enough libraries ported for a full os (I think?). Now their boards are $99 which is a jump from $40, so my question would be was price differential the reason why it wasn't included or where there too many compatibility/tooling issues?
i believe i spoke to them (it may have been a different company), if i recall correctly (which i probably don't) their core PCB (which they haven't released) is 12-layer, which means "insanely expensive to produce".
mostly it's down to practicality of cost, and time. if people offer to *pay* for these boards to be made, i'll get them done, no problem.
l.