Final Peripherals Backplane - Making an 8 Bit pipelined CPU - Part 104

When I started this project I had a vision of a single backplane with all the peripherals, vga and cpu modules plugged in. I’ve since refined that a little to separate the core cpu and then two add-on boards, one for peripherals and one for the vga.

Today I share what feels like a massive step forward towards finishing the project, what I believe to be the final Peripherals backplane. In the final scene I show everything I’ve built for the system all plugged together at one for the first time!

In the test section there is a pretty big hint about one of the games I’ve started working on for the system.

There will be a minor iteration of the UART board and there will be a final IO board at the end of that sub-series.

0:00 Introduction
0:22 Module Review
1:34 Design
7:33 Routing
26:52 Soldering
37:31 Install
40:54 Test!
44:18 Outro

One segment of top town footage is a bit blurry, not sure what happened there but it wasn’t practical to re-record, it would have felt too fake.