Minimig PCB run - interest thread

[Oli_hd]

Put me down for one too, Assembled!
(/me looks right at the wall of SMD rework machines and smiles)

[Oli_hd]

Just checked out some PCB pages to see the cost of manufacturing the board.

He may want to have a look at MYRO as they do the full turn key solution (they get the parts, make the PCB and assemble and the prices they quote are to good to be true.

I was going to check with Gold Phoenix too, but their page is down ATM.

Your gonna need to e-mail them at sales at goldphoenixpcb dot biz

[Oli_hd]

Are there sockets available for the SMD FPGA, mem chips etc?

Yes but they are very expensive, specially ones that go through hole.
You cna get cheap ones that use the same surface mount pads for around £20, the clam sockets with through hole pins cost a bomb though, simply because they are only designed to be used on prototypes.
You can get QFP to PGA adaptors though, but even so.. surface mount is the best way tbh.

Well unless you could break the code down to use a few 86pin PLCC package FPGA's.. call one Agnus, another one.. I dunno.. dennis ;-)
Thats probably the best bet for real DIY'ers

[Oli_hd]

Throughhole would increase cost significantly

well thp assembly is actually cheaper, but the more chips would bump up the cost... that said it would be a real DIY project then, build a jtag programmer on the board and have some fun...
just like the good old Sinclair Spectrum

and introduce more EMI.

Hands up who care  :-D
the A500 was all thp, as was the A2000, 1000 etc.