This development roadmap for the A\BOX Computer System as well as the CAIPIRINHA Custom Chip gives an overview about the development steps that have been undertaken and that are upcoming according to the project plans of the Advanced Silicon Engineering Group of phase 5 digital products. We will keep this roadmap updated from time to time to reflect the status of the development. Green bars are indicating finalized steps, yellow bars stand for processes which are ongoing, and red bars mark those parts of the development which are still to come.

Please note that some of the processes, as for example the Evaluation of the available ASIC technologies, are continuously ongoing during other development phases, which means that beside the other activities it is always checked - of course not with the highest priority and as an everyday duty - if there are newer, better or cheaper technologies or cooperation partners available. Please also note that the A\BOX and CAIPIRINHA development roadmap does only list major parts of the designwork which are done by phase 5 digital products itself; design steps such as designing the PCI bus controller or the Video DAC, for example, are not listed as such parts of the design will be provided in form of building blocks by the ASIC manufacturers of choice, which are available in form of ready-to-use VHDL code and can easily be integrated into the chip design. As the integration of such standard design parts is not considered to be an important part of the design roadmap, these tasks are not explicitely listed.

This roadmap covers currently the important hardware development steps of the A\BOX dvelopment; an updated roadmap considerung also the important software development schedules will follow soon.

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