[Cryptech Core] Alpha scedule

[Fredrik Thulin]

On Saturday, April 16, 2016 11:12:08 AM Peter Stuge wrote:
> Fredrik Thulin wrote:
> > We sent the final PCB layout to Propoint yesterday.
> 
> Great! What does it look like, or what was changed after review?

Attaching the gerbers. Will put it in a repo or on the wiki when I have the 
time to do it in a structured way.

We had a DFM review done that highlighted several things to fix - clearances 
etc.

We also had Bitsim do another round of review, which resulted in adjusted 
placements for some bypass capacitors for one of the FTDI chips, and some 
trace widths and through hole diameter adjustments.

> For Stockholm, this design is not trivial and things are missed in
> the first hardware revisions all the time.
> 
> I guess Propoint will not do bringup, testing and rework?

No, that would be us...

> I suggest a different mission statement: one physical board has all
> major components (power supplies, clocks, memories, CPUs and FPGA)
> operational, and an errata is up on the wiki.
> 
> A large part of bringup is writing various test software. Bonus to
> have reworked all of the boards, if any rework is neccessary.

Thanks, I think we're leaning towards just bringing up the hardware together 
in Stockholm, and then shipping boards to Rob and Paul for software 
engineering, but I might have misunderstood that.

> Finalized application software is just not a realistic expectation
> right after assembly.
> 
> 
> Fredrik - do you have/know an electronics lab? If it helps I'm happy
> to ask a friend if he would let Cryptech visit his place.

We have one set of all the things we expect to need for the bring up (scope, 
soldering irons  etc.) but if we run into problems it would surely be useful 
to have access to a place with the "next level" of gear. We don't have high 
magnification optics for example.

If your friend has more than be basic stuff it would be great if you could 
check if we can visit him/her if we need it.

/Fredrik
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