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ULX3S soldering guide

If you happen to need to solder the ulx3s board by hand, this article will provide some useful info about which parts are essential and which can be skiped or replaced with different values.

We'll group the parts in three categories, essential, important and optional. The essential parts will be those that are both, needed for board to work, and have to be the exact value to avoid the magic smoke. The important parts are those without which the board won't function but the values are less of an issue, and the optional parts are those that can be skipped and enable certain features.

Essential

Power

This section is most critical because it produces correct values for powering the board, all components should be populated and the values should be exact.

1.1V
Symbol Value Description
U3 TLV62569DBVSwitcher
C1 22uInput capacitor
C2 470p
C3 22uOutput capacitor
C4 22u
C222.2uFeed forward capacitor
C172.2u
L1 2.2uHInductor
RA115kResistor divider
RB118k
2.5V
Symbol Value Description
U4 TLV62569DBVSwitcher
C9 22uInput capacitor
C10470p
C1122uOutput capacitor
C1222u
C232.2uFeed forward capacitor
C192.2u
L2 2.2uHInductor
RA215kResistor divider
RB24k7
3.3V
Symbol Value Description
U5 TLV62569DBVSwitcher
C5 22uInput capacitor
C6 470p
C7 22uOutput capacitor
C8 22u
C242.2uFeed forward capacitor
C202.2u
L3 2.2uHInductor
RA315kResistor divider
RB33k3

Important

USB connection

This section provides the USB connection which enables us to test the board.

Symbol Value Description
U6 FT231XSFTDI
US1USBMicro USB connector
R4927RProtection resistor
R5027R
D8 STPS2L30AF Protection diode
R9 15k RESET pull up
R4 4k7 FTDI SLEEP
R10130R
D11LED RED
D12BAT54W

Optional

HDMI

Symbol Value Description
GPDI1HDMIHDMI Connector
C36-C45220nFFilter capacitors
R61549R(680R)CEC

LED

Symbol Value Description
D0-D7LEDLed bar
R41-R48470R-1kCurrent limiting
D17LEDPower enable
R36470R-1kCurrent limiting
D19LED redFTDI tx
R37470R-1kCurrent limiting
D22LEDWiFi
R62470R-1kCurrent limiting

Buttons

Symbol Value Description
B1Push buttonFire 1
B2Push buttonFire 2
B3Push buttonUP
B4Push buttonDOWN
B5Push buttonLEFT
B6Push buttonRIGHT
SW1DIP4DIP switch bank
R7130RPullup
R39130RPullup
R51130RPullup

RAM

Symbol Value Description
U2MT48LC16M16A2TG16MB SD RAM

Flash

Symbol Value Description
U10IS25LP128F-JBLEFlash 128MB
R1110kPullup
R1210k
R1310k
R2710k
R2810k
R291k
R304k7
R3115k
R3215k
R3315k
project/ulx3s-soldering.txt · Last modified: 2018/11/04 12:10 by dp