Alexandre Guimaraes writes:

> Hi,
> 
> > >     I do not thing that it is that bad at all... It is more complex than
> I
> > > would want also but not impossible at all... We just need 2 more people
> > > working actively at it and we can finish it in 1 or 2 months ! We need a
> > > experienced FPGA guy and a good analog enginner to make the high speed
> front
> > > end.
> >
> > Isn't this a bit like wanting to build a race car but needing a good
> > engine guy and a good chassis guy?  Perhaps I'm confused, but those
> > seem like the two largest and most critical pieces of the whole
> > project.
> 
>     Not quite.. We are all engineers and we can search, find references,
> simulate, prototype and do both the analog front end and the FPGA stufff but
> for a open source project it makes more sense to look for someone that can
> do it faster and better because of bigger experience in the specific area.
> It is a matter of spending 10 hours with the right person or 100 with less
> experienced people.

Fair enough!  It certainly makes good sense to spend a little bit of
time finding a good person before spending a lot of time learning
yourself.

> The most time consuming part on the project is protocol,
> communications and PC program and we are making good progres there.

I was actually going to comment on this, as this is likely going to
require the largest amount of development time.

Has anyone considered using a PIC-based setup for a simple, low-speed
version that would implement the full control protocol?  This would
allow the PC programmers to begin work on control software that could
proceed in parallel with the more difficult analogue/FPGA/fab stuff.

-p.
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