[Oberon] New FPGA Oberon board

[Chris Burrows]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: skulski at pas.rochester.edu [mailto:skulski at pas.rochester.edu]
> Sent: Tuesday, 19 May 2015 5:12 AM
> To: oberon at lists.inf.ethz.ch
> Cc: Wojtek Skulski
> Subject: Re: [Oberon] New FPGA Oberon board
> 
> We recently got a quote for building a board very similar to BBB.
> (Same hole sizes, same copper spacing, same number of layers, similar
> size). The quote was $200 per board, if we order one hundred. It
> means, $200 per board to build the boards. These boards would need to
> sell for $500 to return the engineering cost. (I hope it clear what I
> mean?)
> 

Wow! They must have seen you coming ;) I can see why you were so pessimistic
about the price. Fortunately there are much more inexpensive alternatives if
you don't need them delivered 'yesterday'.

One to try is OshPark:

https://oshpark.com/

I used them to make the daughterboard PCB (for the RF module, Micro-SD card
socket and PS/2 mouse connector) I designed for use with the Digilent
Spartan 3 I use with FPGA Oberon. The results were fantastic - much better
than I expected. As they were samll double-side boards the TOTAL cost was
$US 13 (yes - thirteen dollars) for three boards INCLUDING shipping from the
USA to Australia!

Regards,
Chris

Chris Burrows
CFB Software
http://www.astrobe.com