iC880A + Raspberry Pi Backplane

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This is a backplane to connect an iC880A-SPI concentrator board to a Raspberry Pi. It is inspired by the iC880A backplane by @gonzalocasas, but aims to give you the following additional features:

Power

• Screw terminal and footprint for MP1584 step-down regulator module (6.7-28V)
• Screw terminal for direct power input/output (5V)
• Protection diode and resettable polyfuse against high voltage spikes
• Protection against reverse polarity power input

Headers

• Full access to Raspberry Pi GPIO header
• Pin header for serial communication (RX/TX)
• 2 Pin headers for I²C based sensors (SDA/SCL/GND/3.3V/5V)

Sensors

• A SHT21 temperature/humidity sensor
• An MCP3425 16-bit ADC to measure RPi supply voltage

Other

• Pin header with flyback diode for 5V fan (5V/GND)
• General purpose button connected to GPIO pin (e.g. for controlled Raspi shutdown)
• Three general purpose SMD LEDs (Note: Only usable from Raspi versions with 40-pin GPIO header)
• Mounting holes for Raspberry Pi B+ / 2B / 3B / Zero

PCB

Schematics

See schematics-v1.4.pdf.

Development

This PCB was created using KiCad 4.

Make sure that you clone all submodules:

git submodule init
git submodule update

License

© 2017–2018 Danilo Bargen. Licensed under the TAPR Open Hardware License (www.tapr.org/OHL).

If you make any modification to this board, it would be great if you could let me know at mail@dbrgn.ch.