On Tue, Feb 18, 2014 at 03:35:13PM -0500, jonsm...@gmail.com wrote: > On Tue, Feb 18, 2014 at 3:09 PM, Andre Renaud <an...@bluewatersys.com> wrote: > > Hi, > > Does anyone know of a reliable supplier who sells the AllWinner A20 > > chips? I was hoping to find them on digikey, mouser or avnet, but it > > appears that they're a little bit hard to find. I see that Olimex will > > sell them in low volumes, but I was hoping for a better known supplier > > (and higher quantities). > > Allwinner is talking with the big distributors currently but AFAIK no > deal has been reached yet. > > Many people have designed their own board locally using a few chips > from Olimex. Then when you want to make a larger quantity have them > assembled in Shenzhen. The Allwinner chips are plentiful in Shenzhen. > > Instead of buying chips you might want to consider standard Q88 tablet > PCBAs. A20 tablet PCBAs can be bought in the $20-30 range in Shenzhen. > An easy way to get a hold of them is to buy Q88 tablets and > disassemble them. These PCBA are made by many companies and the price > is highly competitive. It is also possible to buy STB PCBAs. > > Another option is to have a Chinese design house make one for you. For > about $5000 they will design whatever you want and provide about ten > prototype boards. These designs are easy to put into production since > they will use local components. Around $40/board for medium volume but > this depends on what you put on the board. > > Reusing Q88 PCBAs is by far the easiest solution. You can mount one in > a case and then use an internal USB cable to talk to your specialized > hardware if needed.
Isn't Q88 an A13 based board? Luc Verhaegen. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "linux-sunxi" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to linux-sunxi+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
