[Cryptech Tech] Alpha board strategy

[Randy Bush]

>>> And just to make it easier for others to replicate what we do in
>>> order to build trust or try to contribute the tool becomes a
>>> problem if the cost serious dough.
>> Both ISE and Quartus are $2,995.
> 
> Depends if you go node locked or not. Node locked Quartus is 1995 USD
> and floating is 3995 USD. And that is fairly serious dough if you are
> not planning to do a single board or so.

< insert picture of geek with hands up in surrender >

>> My suggestion is to have one board that will suit users willing to
>> use cheap FPGA and free license as well as users willing to use
>> larger FPGA and paid subscription license.
> 
> Yes, that is a very good point. But it doesn't change the fact that we
> imho want to be able to meet the full set of functionality for our
> primary use cases with a lot of possible headroom for the first
> version of the board.

< quibble >

meet the full set of functions for EACH use case, i.e. any one use case,
not all at once.  i.e. dnssec signing does not need ec.

randy