FPGA-Retro-Arcade-Console

JuanAVillagomez·FPGA-Retro-Arcade-Console·hardware/Retro_KiCAD.kicad_pcb

FPGA-Retro-Arcade-Console PCB layout, top view — open source board by JuanAVillagomez

About the FPGA-Retro-Arcade-Console PCB

FPGA-Retro-Arcade-Console is an open source PCB design by JuanAVillagomez, published on GitHub. It is a 4-layer board measuring 70 × 77.5 mm, with 9 components from 9 distinct parts.

Other key parts include the LP2950-3.3_TO92. By type, the board carries 3 connectors, 1 IC and 1 module.

It belongs with the retro computing designs in this gallery.

From the project

A custom 4-layer PCB and Verilog game engine using the Digilent Cmod A7.

A fully custom hardware and firmware implementation of a retro arcade game engine built from scratch. This project interfaces a Digilent Cmod A7 FPGA with a custom-designed printed circuit board (PCB) featuring a resistor-based VGA Digital-to-Analog Converter (DAC), isolated power delivery, and NES controller input logic.

This project bridges bare-metal hardware design with digital logic synthesis, entirely bypassing traditional microcontrollers in favor of hardware description logic.

FPGA-Retro-Arcade-Console, from the project README — From the project README

Main components on the FPGA-Retro-Arcade-Console

LP2950-3.3_TO92

FPGA-Retro-Arcade-Console bill of materials (BOM)

9 components, 9 distinct parts.

Qty	Part	Footprint	Refs
1	LP2950-3.3_TO92	TO-92_Inline	U2
1	~	DIP-48_600mil	A7-35T1
1	694106301002	BarrelJack_Wuerth_6941xx301002	J1
1	Conn_01x03_Pin	PinHeader_1x03_P2.54mm_Vertical	J3
1	NES_CABLE_WIRES	PinHeader_1x07_P2.54mm_Vertical	J4
1	1u	C_0805_2012Metric	1u
1	4.7u	C_0805_2012Metric	4.7u
1	WCR0805LF1001FPLT 1k	R_0805_2012Metric	270
1	ERJ-U06F2001V 2k	R_0805_2012Metric	510

FPGA-Retro-Arcade-Console design files

The KiCad project lives in the JuanAVillagomez/FPGA-Retro-Arcade-Console repository on GitHub; these links point at the commit this page was built from.

Layouthardware/Retro_KiCAD.kicad_pcb
Schematichardware/Retro_KiCAD.kicad_sch

FPGA-Retro-Arcade-Console: common questions

How big is the FPGA-Retro-Arcade-Console PCB?

The FPGA-Retro-Arcade-Console measures 70 × 77.5 mm, has 4 copper layers and is 1.600198 mm thick.

How many components are on the FPGA-Retro-Arcade-Console?

9 components, from 9 distinct parts. The full bill of materials is listed on this page.

Where can I download the FPGA-Retro-Arcade-Console design files?

From the JuanAVillagomez/FPGA-Retro-Arcade-Console repository on GitHub, which has the KiCad layout and the schematic; the links under Design files point to each one.

Can I use the FPGA-Retro-Arcade-Console design in my own project?

The repository has no license, so all rights stay with JuanAVillagomez. Use it as a reference, and ask the author before reusing the design.

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