Slate

Created by @cheyao

Slate


29/05/25

I've done a lot of research, and decided to go with the Allwinner A33 as my main processor for it's speed.

Also decided on the name! It's just gonna be called slate

  • 2h

30/05/25

Made a custom TFBGA282 14x14 P0.8mm Footprint :)

  • 1.5h

07/05/25

Drew the symbol for my 4Gb RAM

  • 1.5h

Routed out the DRAM, but decided to change to 512M x 8 chips

Also added a bunch of resources onto the schematic

  • 2h

Okay I've made a basic DDR3 pinout

  • 2h

And improved the DDR3 schematic! Read the DDR specs and best practices, then started to join everything

  • 2h

14-15/05/25

Started to implement the power supply! This is hard as the chip doesn't have a good datasheet :skull:

  • 4h

15/05/25

And continues to do this :D I think I'm 90% done with the PMU

  • 4h