Mpcie gnss

mPCIe-GNSS (mPCIe-LC6L)

This is a little miniPCIe card I designed to hold a Quectel LC86L GNSS module, with a timepulse header and a backup supercap.

Repository Structure

• mPCIe-GNSS contains the main schematics and board drawing
• mPCIe-GNSS/mPCIe-GNSS.pretty contains the board-specific footprints
• mPCIe-GNSS/mPCIe-GNSS-archive.lib contains the board-specific symbols

I had this made by JLCPCB using their 1mm thick PCBs, and elected to get them to assemble most of it - while all of the parts except the supercapacitor, connectors, and GNSS module are in their extended part library, it didn't make sense to spend $6 on extended part fees for two assembled boards, so I skipped the transistors and diode.

Building

Simply call make in the top-top level directory. The build directory will them contain:

• the main mPCIe board
• A panelized version of said board
• zipped gerbers for the boards you can directly use for manufacturing
• zipped gerbers and SMT assembly BOM/position files for JLCPCB's SMT assembly service for the single-board version.

Makefile uses Jan Mrázek's KiKit, which I cannot recommend enough, and therefore has to be available on your system.

Jan's jlcparts app was also extremely useful in narrowing down part choices based on what JLCPCB have available.

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IMPORTANT NOTE: If you give JLCPCB these files as-is, please verify the orientation of every part before submitting.