Sporniket's conversion of the schematics of the 'Atari STE' computer into Kicad

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Content

1. What is Sporniket's conversion of the schematics of the 'Atari STE' computer into Kicad, and when to use it ?
2. What should you know before using Sporniket's conversion of the schematics of the 'Atari STE' computer into Kicad ?
3. How to use Sporniket's conversion of the schematics of the 'Atari STE' computer into Kicad ?
4. Known issues
5. Miscellanous

1. What is Sporniket's conversion of the schematics of the 'Atari STE' computer into Kicad, and when to use it ?

As the name implies Sporniket's conversion of the schematics of the 'Atari STE' computer into Kicad is a project made with Kicad. I converted the available schematics of a computer from 1989 called 'Atari STe', and there is even a PCB to serve as a non normative reference.

Licence

Sporniket's conversion of the schematics of the 'Atari STE' computer into Kicad is marked with CC0 1.0 Universal. To view a copy of this license, visit http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0

Sporniket's conversion of the schematics of the 'Atari STE' computer into Kicad is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.

2. What should you know before using Sporniket's conversion of the schematics of the 'Atari STE' computer into Kicad ?

As the name implies, Sporniket's conversion of the schematics of the 'Atari STE' computer into Kicad is made using Kicad.

The git repository use several submodules that one has to fetch in order to get the symbols, footprint and 3dmodels. One submodule requires python3 and GNU make to generate the libraries of symbols for integrated circuits.

This project contains a PCB design that is an approximate reconstruction :

• Component and mounting hole placement was approximatively guided by a degraded silk screen and solder mask found on a scanned service manual.
• Routing has been approximatively guided by a series of shots of the component side and solder sides of an actual motherboard, covering all the surface.

Do not use Sporniket's conversion of the schematics of the 'Atari STE' computer into Kicad if this project is not suitable for your project.

3. How to use Sporniket's conversion of the schematics of the 'Atari STE' computer into Kicad ?

From sources

To get the latest available models, one must clone the git repository and the submodules. Then some modules needs a build step to generate its libraries.

git clone --recurse-submodules https://github.com/sporniket/kicad-conversions--atari-ste-motherboard--c300780-001.git
cd kicad-conversions--atari-ste-motherboard--c300780-001/kicad-symbols-generated
make

Then, open the project in Kicad.

From github releases

A github releases will provide :

• A standalone Kicad project (all custom libraries included and ready to use)
• A PDF of the schematics
• A PDF of the silkscreen

4. Known issues

See the project issues page.

5. Miscellanous

Report issues

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