On Fri, 2012-11-23 at 22:45 +0100, Peter Stuge wrote: > Hi Rex, > > Rex O'Regan wrote: > > How hard would it be to design, source components and construct a > > motherboard for something simple such as a 486DX from scratch? > > > > I am interested in doing this primarily to learn about what it takes to > > design a motherboard and what's in them and how the components interact. > > Not very many are designing 486-class boards these days, so you will > not get many answers. If you want to find out I think you have to try. > > As always, keeping it simple and introducing one or at least very few > unknowns each time helps the success rate. > > You'll need various tooling for bringup, oscilloscope, logic analyzer, > and so on. But with 500-1000 EUR/USD you can already get quite a > useful lab set up! Of course not name brand state of the art, but > wholly adequate for a hobbyist mainboard design. > > Programmable logic is certainly one way to go, but would of course > bypass the procurement exercise. > > If you have time - a fun project! > > > //Peter > Thanks for the confidence, you make it sound like others are designing for other processors. I just chose the 486 as it seems to be about the most basic that can still be used but if there are others doing a similar thing with another class I would be quite happy to use a different class to get access to more information.
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