My best friend is an electrical design engineer in Massachusetts, and I have been planting a bug in his ear to help me redesign the Mini-Mig Board so that all connectors will be on the backplane so that it can fit on a standard mini-itx form factor mainboard and in any standard mini-itx case with a custom backplane cutout to match the connectors or just a blank backplane that could be cut manually to match the connectors depending on cost...
Don't know if I can make this happen but would anybody be interested in this kind of implementation of Mini-Mig, if I can get him to re-engineer it based on dennis's source files for the 1.1 implementation to a mini-itx form factor? I would also probably include sockets for the chips and crytals in the design to make it easily repairable and allow for future modification\upgrade...
Also wondering if an EPLD implementation of the current FPGA wouldn't be better, this way the pic component could be eliminated, and to upgrade just put in a new revision EPLD in the socket... Rather than having the re-programmability of the FPGA... Would have to find out what the cost difference would be and if its worth sticking with the reprogrammable FPGA...
Just some thoughts, let me know what you think... Has anyone else thought of attempting this re-design to mini-itx?
