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Rich

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "roines reenig" <roinesreenig@yahoo.com>
To: <piclist@mit.edu>
Sent: Friday, February 04, 2005 7:27 AM
Subject: [OT:] Looking for a PCB manufacturing/assembly partner


> We've been having trouble with our current Taiwanese
> board partner. We found out that they've been padding
> up the parts costs with their suppliers. I won't name
> names yet. We're still dependent on them. We  are now
> lookin for a more honest partner who can be trusted
> and can expect trustworthy behavior from us too.
> 
> We're planning to move to a new design and
> architecture for our productline. The board we're
> designing is a typical embedded board. IE: mainboard
> with cpu, ram, flash and IO. We've picked the geode as
> the core system processor and we'd have serial ports
> to interface with various daughterboards that have
> PICs and sensors of various types. I'd guess our
> mainboard design will likely be a 5-7 layer 3.5"x5"
> PCB with a limited number of BGA components and then a
> mix of SMT and throughhole parts. 
> 
> We've got a team of low level software and digital
> design hardware guys. Our hardware guys are confident
> that they can handle all the schematic design and
> capture themselves. The work they're uncertain about
> is the board layout work. Given that, we're looking
> for a manufacturing and assembly partner who would be
> willing to consult with us on the layout and help us
> out for a fee if we run into trouble. The type of
> business we want is that when we do a design, we'd pay
> a downpayment and preorder a specified number of
> boards. In return, we'd expect the partner to take on
> handling of inventory and manufacturing details.
> 
> I was hoping that some of you may have gone through
> this type of process. I'd really like to get advice
> from people who used particular vendors. Suggestions
> and recommendations would be great. 
> 
> Thanks!
> 
> 
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