Dear Jason, Thank you for all the documents and such an amazing product. I want to use BBB in my design as an LCD driver and USB host. Can I use it..? But i don't need other componets on the PCB apart from my requirement. Can I develop PCB using the gerber provided? will there be any intellactual property rights violation? Please let me know. Thank & regards, Anup.
On Saturday, July 26, 2008 5:32:53 PM UTC+5:30, Jason Kridner wrote: > Andrew and all, > > The one thing I was hoping to have in place before sharing schematic and > PCB layout files was to have a really good engagement plan. By engagement > plan, I essentially mean the definition of the Beagle Board project goals > and what type of business arrangements we'd entertain, such as endorsing > the sale of cases, including certain features, or turning over > manufacturing. Instead of waiting for these things to be perfectly clear, > however, I'd like to just get the thoughts out there for some dialog. > > All Beagle Board peripherals and side products are welcome, as > are "competing" projects that make use of the design. The goal of > Beagle is to illustrate the capability of the OMAP3530 device at a cost > point where most interested people can experience it. Beagle is meant > to get those who are interested in OMAP to work in the open, enabling > us all to get along a bit faster or further in our designs. Beagle is not > meant to be a substitute for the system-on-module offerings that are > tremendously beneficial to getting a product to market quickly, without a > lot of up-front costs, but instead more for software developers, students, > and hobbyists who don't plan on making more than one of their hardware > setup. > > If someone wants to put a case around Beagle and call it a product, great. > To be successful selling that product, they would need to add some value, > such as a particular set of bundled software, additional peripherals, or > some cost reduction. We don't want to be in the business of controlling > this market. There are some really great manufacturers out there that > understand the needs of community developers, system developers, and end > consumers. We'd like to avoid disrupting their business plans by setting > any misleading expectations. Now that Beagle is being broadly announced, > it seems best to keep any product or manufacturing discussion out in the > open. It is understood that this isn't something many people are > comfortable with--to a great extent because it requires talking about > things that you might not ever deliver, thus hurting your brand and > reputation. While this is a dangerous reality, getting real community > feedback on your plans is also good--and we really don't want to *OWN* > Beagle. Our only concerns are that no one does it harm and that can be > assured by making sure that plans for Beagle are discussed openly. Harm > to Beagle is defined as something that would prevent those interested from > being able to get/afford one, but making a better product than Beagle is in > no way considered harmful. Beagle is intentionally incomplete, yet still > flexible enough to enable exploration. > > Editing the website is welcome. This is a tough one for many people to > swallow, but at least I am confident that this is a self-policing activity. > I would have been quite happy if Bridge Worldwide would have added > features to the website and then advertised the fact that they did so (they > are a nice group of talented people). Perhaps that is a bit easier to > appreciate than the idea that I'm fine with people editing the website to > add essentially advertisements for their OMAP3-based designs, services, and > products. I see that as a benefit to the community. I also think that > this particular community is sufficiently active to recognize insincere > behavior that would result in more bad press than good. Do what you can > and take credit for it, but nothing more. There's nothing wrong with that. > (Web content edits are desired to be git patches sent to this mailing > list, similar to the Linux kernel patches.) > > Further, it is fully expected that for someone designing their own system > they would purchase the OMAP35x EVM (http://www.ti.com/omap35x) and > utilize the hardware expansion options and documented support channels. > Developing a board is a complex task that will cost you thousands of $US. > The EVM is still quite reasonably priced for developers interested in > building their own hardware. > > BeagleBoard.org would obviously not handle returns and repairs for boards > not manufactured under Gerald's supervision (or delegated supervision). > > All this said, here you go.... > > These design materials are *NOT SUPPORTED* and DO NOT constitute a > reference design. Only "community" support is allowed via resources at > BeagleBoard.org/discuss. > > THERE IS NO WARRANTY FOR THE DESIGN MATERIALS, TO THE EXTENT PERMITTED > BY APPLICABLE LAW. EXCEPT WHEN OTHERWISE STATED IN WRITING THE > COPYRIGHT HOLDERS AND/OR OTHER PARTIES PROVIDE THE PROGRAM "AS IS" > WITHOUT WARRANTY OF ANY KIND, EITHER EXPRESSED OR IMPLIED, INCLUDING, > BUT NOT LIMITED TO, THE IMPLIED WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY AND > FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. THE ENTIRE RISK AS TO THE QUALITY > AND PERFORMANCE OF THE DESIGN MATERIALS IS WITH YOU. SHOULD THE > PROGRAM PROVE DEFECTIVE, YOU ASSUME THE COST OF ALL NECESSARY > SERVICING, REPAIR OR CORRECTION. > > We mean it, these materials may be totally unsuitable for any purposes. > > http://beagleboard.org/hardware/design > > Please let us know what luck you have in shopping for PCB makers > and assemblers utilizing these materials. > > Thanks and best of luck, > Jason > On Jul 24, 2008, at 11:23 AM, Gerald Coley wrote: > > When available, it will be provided "as is" in the following formats: > > > Schematic...... PDF and OrCAD > PCB...............Gerbers and Allegro. > > > Gerald > > > On 7/24/08, opensource Aung <aung.op...@gmail.com <javascript:>> wrote: >> >> is it available to get orcad format ? >> >> 2008/7/24, Dirk Behme <dirk....@googlemail.com <javascript:>>: >> >>> >>> aung.op...@gmail.com <javascript:> wrote: >>> > I would like to know the publish date of beagleboard schematic and >>> > pcb layout in electronic form too. >>> >>> Do you know >>> >>> http://elinux.org/BeagleBoard#Schematic >>> >>> ? >>> >>> Dirk >>> >>> > On 7月24日, 上午4時14分, Andrew <andrew.czo...@czworks.co.uk> wrote: >>> > >>> >>Hi Jason, >>> >> >>> >>Thanks for the info. >>> >> >>> >>We love the concept of the beagleboard and hope to use it as the basis >>> >>for a custom design. However the 0.4mm pitch OMAP35x with PoP is state >>> >>of art in terms of PCB design, manufacture and assembly. >>> >> >>> >>We are looking to find a PCB maker and PCB assembler that can >>> >>manufacture a custom design prefereably from the UK. >>> >> >>> >>When are you likely to publish the beagleboard schematic and pcb >>> >>layout in electronic form? >>> >> >>> >>Regards, >>> >> >>> >>Andrew. >>> > >>> > >>> > > >>> > >>> >>> >>> >>> >>> >>> >>> > -- For more options, visit http://beagleboard.org/discuss --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "BeagleBoard" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to beagleboard+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
