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RE: Extremely good news: Kopin 320M Display Drivers

Do you have a name at Newark that you were dealing with?

-Tony

> -----Original Message-----
> From: kill-9 [mailto:] 
> Sent: Wednesday, August 13, 2003 11:09 AM
> To: Brian Kuriyama
> Cc: 
> Subject: Re: Extremely good news: Kopin 320M Display Drivers
> 
> 
> Yeah, I had to call Motorola, they told me that distributors 
> handle samples and sales, and that findchips.com showed that 
> Newark InOne has stock. Newark said they had no stock since 
> it was a special order, and that since they held no stock, 
> Motorola would have to provide samples. Motorola then says 
> that I have to get samples from distributors again, so I tell 
> them Newark says they have none, so then they call Newark for 
> me, and have a guy call me. He called me, asked some 
> questions about annual usage, etc., and says they found some 
> stock in Hong Kong, and will submit my request for 20-40 
> samples. This took reopening the service request on 
> motorola's site many times, etc, but seems to have worked. 
> God knows when I will get them though. When I mentioned the 
> mono ntsc, I was basically wondering if the motorola asic 
> will handle color ntsc and convert it to mono itself, or if 
> mono MUST be sent to the asic. If mono must be sent, I was  
> wondering if generating a mono vga mode from the graphics 
> card and then sending that through a vga-ntsc converter would 
> be sufficient. 
> kill-9
> 
> Quoting Brian Kuriyama <>:
> 
> > Hey kill-9 and Justin
> > 
> > kill-9:
> > >After much playing of the game, motorola might just
> > > be sending me some samples,
> > sooooo did you were arguing about getting some samples from 
> motorola?? 
> > if you did... congradulations (i just hope i get mine too)
> > 
> > >Can
> > > anyone point me at any info for Don Papp's connector solution?
> > i contacted him about it (when his mail server was actually 
> up) and he 
> > said he doesn't make them anymore but it shouldn't be to 
> hard to make 
> > considering the specs. just look up the fpc connector for the kopin 
> > display. Flex PC, 1.86in free length, 20 conductor, 0.5mm pitch to 
> > mate with JST 20FLZ-RSM1-TB, Hirose FH12-20S-0.5SH, Molex 
> > AE-52892-2090, Molex AE-52746-2090, or equivalent connector.
> > 
> > >Also, I know that this ASIC is designed to work with mono  
> ntsc, and 
> > >I was planning on getting NTSC from a vga-ntsc converter, so
> > would it
> > > be enough to have the actual operating system on the pc end 
> > > generating a monochrome mode?
> > say what????
> > 
> > Justin:
> > 
> > >A good addition might be a connector on the pcb for the 
> cable to  the 
> > >cyberdisplay.
> > Flex PC, 1.86in free length, 20 conductor, 0.5mm pitch to mate with 
> > JST 20FLZ-RSM1-TB, Hirose FH12-20S-0.5SH, Molex 
> AE-52892-2090, Molex 
> > AE-52746-2090, or equivalent connector. (runs around in 
> room screaming 
> > "TOO MANY SMALL PADS!!!, TOO MANY SMALL
> > PADS!!!!!") hehe i think i'd be pretty hard to create a smt 
> footprint 
> > for that thingy but your welcomed to try
> > 
> > > Note also that the board in the image kill-9 put up is 
> jumpered for 
> > > PAL
> > (not
> > > NTSC).
> > soooo in the newer pcb you sent us is set for ntsc?
> > 
> > > PS Brian is it too late to set aside say 3 of those ICs??
> > not at all, you just gave us all a great pcb (if they work lol)
> > 
> > 
> > Your 15 year old gadget maker,
> > Brian Kuriyama
> > 
> > 
> > oh yes and here's the current chip list:
> > 
> > Chuck Knight (2)
> > Dan Vasaru (2 wont mind if bundle w/ displays)
> > Bryan Hurley (2)
> > Alex (Kill-9) (any amount of chips [probably gonna allocate 
> 2 unless 
> > you're getting them from motorola]) Justin (Technomage) (3)
> > 
> > 
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