Q-Wave Systems Releases a Full Altium Designer Library Bundle for the Raspberry Pi Compute Module 4
Having designed a custom carrier board, the company is making the library available for others to follow in their footsteps.
Q-Wave Systems has designed a custom carrier board for the new Raspberry Pi Compute Module 4 system-on-module (SoM), and has made a full Altium Designer library for it available under the permissive MIT License — making it easier for people to start designing their own.
Designed by Q-Wave Systems' Amornthep Phunsin, the novel circular CatsEYE Flasher carrier board accepts a Raspberry Pi Compute Module 4 via its two high-density connectors and turns it into a USB-accessible device — but the carrier board itself is only part of the project.
The other part of the project is that Phunsin has made the entire design available in library format for Altium Designer, publishing it under the permissive MIT License for anyone to tinker with, modify, or to use as the basis for their own unrelated Compute Module 4 carrier boards.
The release includes a full Raspberry Pi Compute Module 4 library with schematics and footprint plus design template and guideline, along with schematics which are published under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Phunsin does, however, warn that the library is "currently untested," and asks that anyone finding problems gets in touch to resolve them.
The library is available now on the Q-Wave Systems GitHub repository.