Motherboards - The Designing Process @ MBReview

"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."
Good read.
Designing mobos is a pretty lengthy process and one of the most time consuming isn't even mentioned in the article. Any idea what it is?? Yep you guessed it, the process of getting the board approved by corporate, without the approval the design process is kind of dead in the water.

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