I write software and did electronics at A-Level (16 - 19 school) so only have an elementary understanding of the whole arena.
I'm currently putting together a couple of hardware based projects as part of my own venture and have a niggling issue - the development costs incurred around purchasing the motherboards holding my CPUs.
Considering that Intel have published reference designs for motherboards holding their Atom chips, what would it take for a decent electronics engineer to build one of these boards?
Is it a matter of needing equipment to get it done or is the amount and nature of work such that is requires a professional big-company-backed team?
If I could meet and partner with someone or some people who could do this kind of thing it would make a HUGE difference to the numbers on my business plan and impact on product ideas I have going forward.
I'm currently looking at a taiwanese company's product:
http://www.ctcom.com.tw/images/pic/comtgn450.jpg
I know everything on this board can be purchased, so by looking at this board and Intel's reference designs, how hard is it for a decent electronics engineer to build these things?
Please post with any comments as I need to really understand what the average electronics engineer is capable of doing.
I'm currently putting together a couple of hardware based projects as part of my own venture and have a niggling issue - the development costs incurred around purchasing the motherboards holding my CPUs.
Considering that Intel have published reference designs for motherboards holding their Atom chips, what would it take for a decent electronics engineer to build one of these boards?
Is it a matter of needing equipment to get it done or is the amount and nature of work such that is requires a professional big-company-backed team?
If I could meet and partner with someone or some people who could do this kind of thing it would make a HUGE difference to the numbers on my business plan and impact on product ideas I have going forward.
I'm currently looking at a taiwanese company's product:
http://www.ctcom.com.tw/images/pic/comtgn450.jpg
I know everything on this board can be purchased, so by looking at this board and Intel's reference designs, how hard is it for a decent electronics engineer to build these things?
Please post with any comments as I need to really understand what the average electronics engineer is capable of doing.
