2 layers170.2 × 170.2 mm
2 layers119.9 × 73.4 mm
ArduinoMultiInterface
RomualdRousseau/Miniish1Homebrew 6502 Computer
- Size
- 119.9 × 73.4 mm
- Copper layers
- 2
- Thickness
- 1.6 mm
- Parts
- 28
- Nets
- 112
- Pads
- 255
- Tracks, vias
- 517, 68
- Pours
- 2
- Routed
- Yes
- KiCad
- KiCad 7 (file 20221018)
- Created
- 14 Nov 2020
- Updated
- 26 May 2026
Overview
ArduinoMultiInterface is an open-source printed circuit board by RomualdRousseau, from the RomualdRousseau/Miniish repository on GitHub, published under the GPL-3.0 licence. It is a 2-layer board of 119.9 × 73.4 mm with 28 parts on 112 nets, routed with 517 tracks and 68 vias.
It is built around the ATMEGA328-PU, 74HC574D and 74HC04D, with the 74HC165D, 74HC595 and 74LS20P-E among its other parts. Its parts include 12 capacitors, 8 ICs, 4 connectors, 1 resistor and 1 switch. It belongs with the retro computing and games boards and the AVR (ATmega, ATtiny) boards of this library.
Main components
6
ATMEGA328-PU
PDIP-28-40℃~+85℃ 1.8V~5.5V 10bit 1KB 20MHz 23 2KB 32KB 8 Bit AVR Built-in FLASH PDIP-28 Microcontrollers (MCU/MPU/SOC) ROHSMicrochip TechnologyMicrocontrollers (MCU/MPU/SOC)
74HC574D
SOP-20L-40℃~+125℃ 1 13ns 15ns@6V,50pF 2.7V~6V 20uA 28MHz 5ns 6.5pF 7.8mA 7.8mA 74HC Series 8 D-Type Enable Rising Edge Tri-State SOP-20L Flip Flops ROHSMDDFlip Flops
74HC04D
SOP-14-40℃~+125℃ 1 1.5V~4.2V 1.9V、3.7V、5.2V 100mV、400mV、400mV 14ns@6V,50pF 2V~6V 2uA 5.2mA 5.2mA 500mV~1.8V 6 74HC SOIC-14 Inverters ROHSNexperiaInverters
74HC165D
SO-16-40℃~+125℃ 1 28ns@6V,50pF 2V~6V 35MHz 500mW 74HC 8 Parallel or Serial to Serial SOIC-16 Shift Registers ROHSNexperiaShift Registers
74HC595
SOP-16-40℃~+85℃ 1 100ns@5V,50pF 10MHz 2V~6V 74HC 8 Serial-to-Serial or Parallel Tri-State SOP-16 Shift Registers ROHSGRShift Registers
74LS20P-E
DIP-14-20℃~+75℃ 15ns@5V,15pF 2 2.7V 2V 4 4.75V~5.25V 400mV、500mV 400uA 74LS 800mV 8mA NAND Gate DIP-14 Logic Gates ROHSRenesas ElectronicsLogic Gates
README
README.mdMiniish - Homebrew 6502 Computer
The goal of this project is to build a 8bit game console based on 6502 CPU. The entire project is strongly inspired by the work and videos of Ben Eater, but also Javidx9 and his emulator.
Mother Board
It is basically the same hardware design presented by Ben Eater. I just cleaned up the adress control logic to have as mush of the 32K RAM available.
The address plan is:
0000 --------------------------------
// RAM
8000 --------------------------------
// LO ROM
D000 --------------------------------
// IRQ Status
D100 --------------------------------
// PICTURE PROCESSING UNIT (PORT1B)
D200 --------------------------------
// AUDIO PROCESSING UNIT (PORT2B)
D300 --------------------------------
// I/O
D400 --------------------------------
// Reserved
E000 --------------------------------
// HI ROM
FFFF --------------------------------
Picture Processing Unit (PPU)
VGA Card
The card is built using a FPGA and strongly inspired to the NES PPU and the capability of PICO-8.
The overall specs of the VGA card is 16 colors with a 128x128 display area using the VGA 640x480 60Hz standard. The 16 colors are the PICO8 palette.
The VGA card is interfaced to the motherboard through a sprite based unit. The video ram is not mapped to the computer ram but instead, the CPU sends instructions to a sprite generator very similar to the NES (greatly based on Javidx9 explanations).
The overall spec of the sprite generator is:
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1 nametables for the background composed of 16 * 16 tiles. Each tile is 8x8 pixels. Scrolling vertical and horizontal modes are supported.
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256 sprites with tansparency support. Each sprite is also a tile of 8x8 pixels.
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64 simultaneous sprites on screen and 16 sprites per scanline
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NMI is generated at each vertical blank
Audio Procesing Unit (APU)
The card is built using a ATMEGA328p at 20Mhz with the library the_synth of Edgar.
The synthetizer has the overall spec:
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4 channels at 20KHz
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4 waveforms: triangle, square, sinus + noise
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4 envelopes
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modulation
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IRQ0 is generated as the next data frame callback
Parts
28| Qty | Value | Footprint | References |
|---|---|---|---|
| 8 | 10nF | Capacitor_THT:C_Disc_D5.0mm_W2.5mm_P5.00mm | C6, C7, C8, C9, C10, C11, C12, C13 |
| 3 | 74HC574 | Package_DIP:DIP-20_W7.62mm | U4, U5, U6 |
| 2 | 22pF | Capacitor_THT:C_Disc_D5.0mm_W2.5mm_P2.50mm | C2, C3 |
| 1 | 100nF | Capacitor_THT:C_Disc_D5.0mm_W2.5mm_P2.50mm | C1 |
| 1 | 10K | Resistor_THT:R_Axial_DIN0207_L6.3mm_D2.5mm_P10.16mm_Horizontal | R1 |
| 1 | 10uF | Capacitor_THT:CP_Radial_D5.0mm_P2.00mm | C5 |
| 1 | 20MHz | Crystal:Crystal_HC49-4H_Vertical | Y1 |
| 1 | 74HC04 | Package_DIP:DIP-14_W7.62mm | U7 |
| 1 | 74HC165 | Package_DIP:DIP-16_W7.62mm | U2 |
| 1 | 74HC595 | Package_DIP:DIP-16_W7.62mm | U3 |
| 1 | 74LS20 | Package_DIP:DIP-14_W7.62mm | U9 |
| 1 | ATmega328-P | Package_DIP:DIP-28_W7.62mm | U1 |
| 1 | I2C | Connector_PinSocket_2.54mm:PinSocket_1x04_P2.54mm_Vertical | J2 |
| 1 | LOGO | Cow:VerySmallCow | XiaoNiuNiu |
| 1 | PORT1 | Connector_NES:NES_PCBEdge | J1 |
| 1 | SER | Connector_PinSocket_2.54mm:PinSocket_1x05_P2.54mm_Vertical | J4 |
| 1 | SPI | Connector_PinSocket_2.54mm:PinSocket_1x06_P2.54mm_Vertical | J3 |
| 1 | SW_RESET | Button_Switch_THT:SW_PUSH_6mm | SW1 |
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Questions
How big is the ArduinoMultiInterface PCB?
It measures 119.9 × 73.4 mm and has 2 copper layers, 1.6 mm thick.
What parts does the ArduinoMultiInterface use?
28 parts, built around the ATMEGA328-PU, 74HC574D, 74HC04D and 74HC165D. The full list of its parts is on this page, with links to each part's symbol and footprint where PCBKit's library has them.
Where can I download the ArduinoMultiInterface KiCad files?
From the RomualdRousseau/Miniish repository on GitHub, at the commit this page was made from: the board is Hardware/ArduinoMultiInterface/ArduinoMultiInterface.kicad_pcb and its schematic Hardware/ArduinoMultiInterface/ArduinoMultiInterface.kicad_sch. PCBKit opens the board in the browser, with nothing to install.
Can I use the ArduinoMultiInterface design in my own project?
Its repository publishes it under the GPL-3.0 licence: you may reuse it on that licence's terms (keep the author's notice, and for a copyleft licence share your changes alike).