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Board Hardware
Re: [Announcement] Avalon ASIC Ships
by
Inaba
on 29/01/2013, 00:08:57 UTC
You could certainly fit a Nexus 7 on the front.  I mean, the thing is the size of a Minirig SC.  Heh... a BFL single with power brick at the same GH/s is smaller than the PSU of the Avalon.  Comedy gold.  

But I digress... with regards to buying out all the supplies of capacitors/resistors/etc... it's entirely possible.  BFL ran into the same problem.  It's not the fact that there are no resistors/capacitors/other parts available - there are.  There just aren't those parts in the foot print and profile the board is designed for.  So a 2mm cap may not be available, while a 2.5mm one is, but it won't fit on your board.  It's something we've very carefully worked out on our ASIC boards so that we don't run into supply issues again.  Most of the parts that could potentially run into those issues have been designed with a footprint area that can be exchanged for different parts if need be.  Our power and USB pads are an example of this.. they were designed in such a way so that we could swap out power, USB or something else entirely if we need to and not be constrained by the components around it in terms of footprint.

Although, with a limited run of 300 units, running a supplier out of parts seems pretty crazy, I will admit.  Unless there's like 1500 parts per unit.  Given the size, it's quite possible, but without seeing what's inside, who's to say?