Amy'05 Pics by Troika

[platon42]

Am I the only one who's thinking the routing is a bit odd (90 degree traces, lots of vias at strange places, traces going to nowhere without a visible via (could be the picture though), visible second layer (instead of ground plane), too few traces in total?) and the placement of the components (e.g. memory very far away from the bridges and the CPU).

No, I'm not saying that these pictures are fake. I'm rather wondering if with this level of engineering knowledge, the board will survive a smoke test, not thinking about eventually working at all.

[platon42]

> What's the Geode for?

AmigaOS 5 :-D

Or generating heat.

Or running WinUAE (if the thing at some stage indeed runs software at all).

[platon42]

> Edit: OK, it's a south bridge.

I stand corrected. If it's really a CS5536 with integrated USB2.0 controller with four ports, AC97 audio, why is there a separate NEC USB host controller?

[platon42]

> Even with the missing parts Amy'05 is a very very "clean" design.

Heh, I just couldn't resist laughing over this one. Made my day. Who are you trying to fool? And why? But don't refrain to prove me wrong. Time will tell (as usually).

Edit: Honestly, if you really want to see this board working at some stage, get an enginner that has at least the faintest idea about HF routing. Those rectangular traces are not going to work. Do you really think there's no reason for diagonal and even curved traces on high-speed designs? Since 20 years nobody has being using rectangular traces anywhere. No, I'm not a professional in this area, but even I know this and have used this knowledge for my own designs (don't worry, no motherboards ;-P ).