Sunday 1 April 2012

PCB design

Well, I've spent a long time on this, but I think I'm pretty happy with the layout now. Tomorrow, I'll hopefully resize all the power lines a bit and add some ground planes...



I'm amazed how long PCB design takes... Still, the end result should be good. It's got scart, 2 joysticks, tape in, USB (with about 10 dedicated pins to the atmel which should provide serial, misc I/O and JTAG), PS/2 keyboard, SD card and a bunch of expansion headers offering 14 I/O. Additionally, there's another 4 lines from each of the FPGA and atmel tied together so the atmel can access the SD card via the JTAG which could also be used as general purpose I/O.

Let's hope that when I get this board made it actually works...

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