Motherboard Design
Long but detailed and very interesting article on designing a current technology motherboard at
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bq. Have you ever just looked at a motherboard and wondered how it was designed? How did the design engineers decide where to place certain chips, or components? What are these strange components placed all over the board? Why do motherboard manufacturers make a big deal out of multi-layer PCB’s? Today we’ll be taking a good look at what exactly goes into the process of a motherboard’s design, from the planning stages to the finished product.
Fascinating stuff! We use them daily but never give much thought to how they are put together...
Posted by DaveH at September 16, 2004 10:42 AM