The Cost of Developing A PCI Card

["Kevin Brace" <kevinbraceusenet@hotmail.com>]

        While a discussion on whether or not it is okay to use 2 layer PCB 
or 4 layer PCB for a PCI card is going on, I will like to ask people of this 
mailing list about the cost of developing a PCI card.
I will like to someday develop my own PCI card that has a Xilinx Spartan-II 
XC2S200 FPGA and an SO-DIMM slot on it.
Obviously, I will strictly follow PCI specification, so I will use 4 layer 
PCB for my board, and will like to use SMT parts very extensively for 
passive components like capacitors and resistors.
How much would it cost to make such a board in prototype quantity of just 
one, and how much would it cost if I made 100 of them?
I know that Spartan-II XC2S200-6CPQ208 (208 pin PQFP) costs $30, and 
XC2S200-6CFG456 (456 pin Fine-Pitch BGA) costs $45 in prototype quantity of 
buying only one.
XC18V02 Configuration PROM costs about $36 last time I checked in prototype 
quantity.
        Besides the material costs, how much would it cost to acquire the 
tools needed to develop such a card?
Obviously, I will need software tools like a PCB CAD tool and a signal 
integrity tool.
Can someone recommend me one?
Besides that, I need a logic analyzer and an oscilloscope.
For those two, I will like to have the equipment that can handle 33MHz/66MHz 
PCI as well as PC100/PC133 SDRAM.
I do realize that the everything at the end of the day will cost a lot (It 
probably will cost as much as a luxury car.), but I will just like to know 
for my curiosity.



Thanks,



Kevin Brace (In general, don't respond to me directly, and respond within 
the newsgroup.)

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