Re: Flash Boards

"Mark Gollahon" <[email protected]> Thu, 01 Feb 2007 17:08:13 -0500 (EST)
Newsgroups gmane.comp.handhelds.linux.jornada
Message-ID <[email protected]>
Brian Hechinger wrote ..
> What is the deal with:
> 
> http://handhelds.org/download/projects/jornada/720/j720_flash_card/
> 
> Is that the work that's there non-functional?  I don't know much about
> electronics other than what my friends are capable of doing.  ;)

The problem with that project is that the parts it uses are no longer available.  Those surface-mount chips are more than twice as big as the new ball-grid-array chips.  If the old board could have used BGA chips, it would have been 2/3rds its size or smaller!  So, since we have to layout a new board anyway, might as well use the new BGA chips....  :)  (Hopefully it'll give me the chance to pack a USB host chip on there....)

Regards,
-MarkG

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