Reply 31280 of 31281, by appiah4
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Lopo wrote on Today, 06:37:Just sent my first PCB revision to fabrication - a reverse-engineered duplicate of the DataExpert 367C motherboard with UniChip […]
Just sent my first PCB revision to fabrication - a reverse-engineered duplicate of the DataExpert 367C motherboard with UniChip U4800-VLX chipset.
The challenge: there's no datasheet for the U4800-VLX anywhere. All 160 pins had to be mapped from scratch using PCB scans, photos, multimeter tracing, and cross-referencing with other designs (Groza's OPTi 495XLC SBC, Skiselev's SARC RC2016 386SX board).
This v0.1 is essentially a 1:1 copy to verify the reverse engineering is correct. If it works, future revisions will diverge with improvements (ATX power, VLB slots, expanded cache, etc.)Fingers crossed! 🤞
This is simply amazing, I commend you for your hard work and look forward to an ATX version.