FC development board update

Ineiev ineiev at gnu.org
Sat Aug 15 12:13:10 CEST 2015


On Sat, Aug 15, 2015 at 05:46:01AM +0000, Spacefalcon the Outlaw wrote:
> * FOSS PCB approach: I haven't heard anything from Ineiev yet
...
> While I still see it as a goal that we should eventually produce a
> quadband Calypso modem whose PCB design is done purely in FOSS, my
> current plan of attack is to split the task into two stages:
> 
> 1: Produce a triband version (FCDEV3B) through verbatim reuse of
>    Openmoko's 8-layer PCB design
...
> 2: After FCDEV3B has been built and fully proven working (calibration
>    followed by full TCS211 functionality)

Seems reasonable to me (no, I wouldn't like to take part in stage 1,
on the other hand, I'd hardly be able to reproduce the layout
in GNU PCB as quickly as someone else could modify the existing
board).


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