Pi5

Raspberry Pi 5 board reconstruction

A KiCad 10 reconstruction of the Raspberry Pi 5 board (part placement, part identification, nets traced from the real board), published as an interactive boardview for repair work.

[!WARNING] Unofficial, incomplete and possibly wrong.

• Not official. Not made, endorsed or checked by Raspberry Pi Ltd, and not based on official schematics or layout files. "Raspberry Pi" is a trademark of Raspberry Pi Ltd; this project is not affiliated with it.
• Made by a hobbyist. Reverse engineered by an untrained hobbyist from photos and multimeter probing, not by an electronics professional.
• Incomplete and possibly wrong. Many parts are unidentified and most nets are untraced. Positions, values, part numbers and connections may be wrong, and your board revision may differ.
• Use at your own risk. Board-level repair can destroy hardware and can be dangerous. Check everything against your own board, your own measurements and the manufacturers' datasheets before you solder or apply power. Provided "as is" with no warranty of any kind; the authors and contributors accept no liability for any damage or injury.

• View it: https://dpetzel.github.io/pi5-boardview/, rebuilt from main on every push
• Download: pi5-boardview.html (self-contained, works offline) and pi5.brd (for OpenBoardView), always the latest build

Repository

The boardview files are build output and not committed.

Contributing

Edit the board in KiCad 10 and open a pull request. Part details go in footprint fields: Function, Part, Notes, Replacement, and Source (Source2, Source3, … for more links). Fields holding a URL show as links in the viewer. References ending in ** or ? (REF**, R?) are shown as unidentified parts.

Every pull request builds the boardview. Download the boardview artifact from the PR's workflow run to check your change before it's merged.

Building locally

The exporter needs KiCad's pcbnew Python module. With Docker:

docker run --rm -v "$PWD":/w -w /w kicad/kicad:10.0 python3 tools/boardview.py pi5.kicad_pcb

or with the Python bundled with KiCad (on Windows, "C:\Program Files\KiCad\10.0\bin\python.exe"):

python3 tools/boardview.py pi5.kicad_pcb

Both write boardview/pi5-boardview.html and boardview/pi5.brd. Options: -o DIR, --no-photo, --kicad-nets-only (skip nets derived from copper; see the notes at the top of tools/boardview.py). KiCad exports the last saved board, so save before building.

Credits

The DA9091 PMIC footprint (DA9091.pretty, U5) uses the pad geometry from schlae/cm5-reveng, a reverse-engineered Raspberry Pi Compute Module 5, licensed CC BY-SA 4.0. Its pad numbers are left blank here on purpose: the DA9091 has no public datasheet to confirm where pin 1 is.

License

CC-BY-SA-4.0: share and adapt with attribution, and publish adaptations under the same license. The license's disclaimer of warranties and limitation of liability apply in full.