Hello,
and apologies if this already has been talked about, I tried to find previous discussions on ML archives, elinux & rhombus sites.
It looks like the DRAM will be standard DDR3, has low power DDR3 been studied ?
Too expensive ? No available init code ?
I ask because some other ARM boards differentiate themselves from the other one by using LPDDR3 and that has much better power consumption characteristics, and so do not heat as much.
The regular DDR3 ones (in certain cases have a heat problem and have to be down-clocked to operate properly whereas the LP ones don't...
On the same subject of heat dissipation, some boards use a layer of the pcb just below the soc to act as a heat spreader by having a copper area that is not used for signals, and it looks like this is effective, because other boards that don't have it endure heat problems.
I had a look at EOMA PCB pictures, but I lack knowledge to definitely tell if there is such a copper layer provisioned.
Thanks
And Luke, don't overwhelm yourself into burn out.