RE: [1-wire]Minimal TINI board?

Nicolai -

Maxim sold the developer module at almost their cost. That's why it is cheaper
that way! The did not intend for it to become a product on its own, as it was
supposed to be a development tool. The idea was to get customers to build-in
the components into their own boards.

If someone else is going to make TINI boards, they will probably not be able
to make them and sell them as cheaply as Maxim did.

To be fair, Maxim did not intend to make a product and then undersell the
potential suppliers! They never expected it to be a product at all.

That said, you could build the '400 CPU into your design without too much
trouble. Why not go for it? I have designed the '400 components (PHY, CPU,
RAM, Flash) into a number of platforms in recent months.

Chris



-----Original Message-----
From: 1-wire-software-development-admin-6tN4nzCoH/[email protected]
[mailto:1-wire-software-development-admin-6tN4nzCoH/[email protected]] On Behalf Of Nicolai
Dvinge
Sent: Monday, April 19, 2004 9:50 AM
To: 1-wire-software-development-6tN4nzCoH/[email protected]; tini-6tN4nzCoH/[email protected]
Subject: [1-wire]Minimal TINI board?


Hello all,

I'm looking for the easiest and cheapest way to put my 1-wire project on
Ethernet, and have (off course) chosen TINI. However, I'm a bit confused by
the idea behind the distribution of TINI. I am told by my distributor (Maxim
Denmark) that Maxim aren't too keen on selling TINI-boards/Sockets for
production, since they were ment for evaluation only - actually they are
planning to limit the number of TINI-boards pr. order/customer to 10.

Now, this would be fine if there were alternatives to Maxim/DS. However, I
haven't been able to find any that weren't more expensive that Maxim, (for
example Systronics). It seems odd, that the evaluation kit is the cheapest way
to proceed?

Next thing is, that I only need the 1-wire and the Ethernet interfaces from
the TINI. Does anyone know of a product like this (a "minimal TINI")? I would
like to put this "minimal board" into my end product, so the size of the
DSTINIS400 or the Systronics boards are a bit large, especially since I dont
need the "extra stuff".

I know I could just start designing on my own, but I'm not too keen on
(read: able to do) that, and I don't need 100's of boards. So this is an
invitation to you guys: Make a TINI-board as small and cheap as possible - and
make both me and Maxim happy!

Hope to start a little discussion here... looking foreward to any responses
:-)

Nicolai Dvinge



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