Hello,
I am looking to get a copy of the Rev D schematic either in PDF form or board files. I cannot find this on Github or on the Rev D board that I have in possession.
@jkridner was last working on it, waiting for Seeed
It has been sitting on an openbeagle.org merge request forever waiting on updates I wanted to remove the logo, provide the gerbers and make the BOM diff clean. I went ahead and merged and am cleaning up the BOM diff by hand myself today.
I went ahead and pushed it to github as well
I’ll try to wrap up some base cleanup today. The BOM diff really bugs me. I need to get my Allegro license renewed, because I refuse to boot into Windows. :-/
To aide with identifying changes in the BOM, I’ve created Making sure you're not a bot! and I’ll be fixing it up more.
This is incredibly helpful, thank you both! @jkridner @RobertCNelson
I’m a little confused here. An open source board needs an Allegro license to reproduce the board? How to best reproduce the board?
Yes, it is fully compliant with the OSHWA requirements for open hardware, which do not require that the hardware be designed with open source or free-to-license software. I have a lot of sympathy for you here and KiCAD has improved much over the years since the original BeagleBone was designed, but it is still easier for engineers working on the design to use Allegro.
If there is an active need, I am committed to resolving efforts to acquire exported versions of the board design and support efforts to recreate the design in open source tools, especially KiCAD due to its wide adoption and my personal tool-of-choice.
As of now, you can use the gerber files to get a board manufactured or get an Allegro license if you want to import/modify the source.
All of our BeagleConnect boards are designed in KiCAD and we’ve even sponsored a translation of BeagleBone AI into KiCAD, but it has been a real challenge to get engineers who are proficient in Allegro to migrate for day-to-day work on designs with complex simulation requirements. The simulator is a real bottleneck and once you have seen it you can understand why. While I’m not a big fan of all the AI slop coming at us from everywhere, I am hopeful that some of that might reduce the costs of generating a high-quality simulator for KiCAD to remove our dependence on closed-source tools like Allegro.
Where are the Rev D gerber files? I looked at your links. Did I miss them?
No, you just reminded me I didn’t get them yet. Just sent another ping to the engineer.