Assembly Notes (Atom Board)

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Drilling the top of the enclosure

• Mount bare PCB in the enclosure and make marks through the guide holes in the centre of the three push switches. Either mark with a needle, or carefully drill through with a fine. The LEDs are exactly 15mm further out than then switches.

• Drill 4mm holes for the three switches, and 3mm holes for the the LEDs. Ideally use "lip and spur" drill bits (also called a brad point bit or dowelling bit), as these give a cleaner cut.

Assembling the PCB

Assemble in the following order

• Parts marked NF on the PCB need not be fitted
• Surface mount (Xilinx CPLD, three 0805 capacitors and SOT-23 IC)
• Visually check the CPLD for solder bridges, as these are harder to fix when the through-hole parts are mounted
• Resistors
• IC Sockets
• Capacitors
• LEDs
• Pi connectors
• Headers
• Clean the board with IPA
• finally mount the switches

Program the CPLD

IMPORTANT: MAKE SURE YOU PROGRAM THE RIGHT FILE (!!!!)

CPLD programming instructions can be found here.

Configure and Fit the Pi

Basically just download and unzip the "Atom Video to HDMI Testers Release #1" from here

Adjust and test

Use the following program:

Finalise the Case

• file groove in case to allow reset switch to fit in (it's very tight!, add photo)