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I'm interested in building my own motherboard from scratch. tried doing searches and all i can find is prototyping motherboard manufactures.

do u know any websites that might get me started?
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adamj | 1 year, 9 months ago
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Are you trying to create something akin to a motherboard or actually make something that would work with a modern processor? If it's the latter, that's really not a single-person hobbyist type project.

If it's the former, here's some links that might be interesting:
http://hackaday.com/2009/01/10/n8vem-single-board-z80-computer/
http://chaokhun.kmitl.ac.th/~kswichit/68k/68k.html

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rogue_spider | 1 year, 9 months ago Report

no its the latter
im sure that the first prototype was not all printed on a circuit board someone cobbled together pieces and parts to work together ugly big and somewhat limited it was
but with work they refined it id like that experience.

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itsy | 1 year, 9 months ago
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Alright, so building a motherboard is not that huge of an undertaking believe it or not. Heck, many OEMs just take the reference designes from chipset manufactures and slap on some extras here and there and call it a day. The biggest challenge for a hobbyist IMO would be the prototyping process, a 4 layer PCB for a motherboard is typical these days and it's hard to find a short run supplier of such a complex pcb.

Wire wrapping is how this is (or at least was) handled in the day, then you would literally stack your proto boards on top of one another with ribbon cable jumpers connecting the layers.

First step would be to get some reference designes, see whats involved, then decide if you want to peruse it further.
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rogue_spider | 1 year, 9 months ago Report

sounds too kool - so id start with finding designs or is there software?

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rogue_spider | 1 year, 9 months ago Report

here's something interesting
http://www.cs.binghamton.edu/~reckert/sbc.htm
i think this might be a good start for me

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