Reverse engineering the Raspberry Pi 5 PCIe connector #RaspberryPi #PCIe @m1geo
Folks have been reverse engineering the Raspberry Pi 5 PCIe high speed connector before release of official documentation by Raspberry Pi.
George Smart posts on YouTube work to reverse engineer the wiring of the Pi 5 connector. He writes:
A crude reverse engineering of the Raspberry Pi 5’s FPC PCIe connector & potential breakout board.
In this bare-bones project I document a working PCIe pinout talk through my hardware tinkering to get the Raspberry Pi 5’s PCIe connected to something. I had only seen Raspberry Pi’s boards with their RP2040 and lots of parts on board. My professional experience with PCIe was that it either just goes or it really doesn’t. I decided to try and make it do something for no reason other than the technical challenge.
Note: This project is a reverse engineering – Please wait for/use the official Raspberry Pi documentation when using the PCIe FPC.
George’s work with KiCad schematics are on his GitHub site.
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