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ALU Assembly Instructions

The ALU is mostly built designed with surface-mount components (it was the only wat to fit this circuit in such a small HP footprint). These parts are relatively large (0805-size or equivalent) so they are definitely possible to solder by hand. But, it is probably much more cost effective to just have the fabrication house making the PCBs also assemble them. The KiCad files have fields for JLC part numbers, so you can easily export the needed materials to have JLCPCB manufacture the whole board thing. But equivalent parts should be available at any fab service.

Components

See general components notes for more info about sourcing parts.

Interactive BOM: front, back

Through-hole components

Board Reference Part Value Source Comment
Front J1-J12 3.5mm Jack THONKICONN (a.k.a PJ398SM or PJ301M-12) Tayda, Thonk  
Both J14-J15, J16-J17 Pin headers 1x7, 1x6 Tayda (Male, Female), Amazon Cut headers down to size. Solder the two boards directly together using the male headers or make them detachable using a male/female pair.
Back J13 IDC connector 2x8 Tayda Eurorack power header

Surface-mount components

Board Reference Part Value Footprint JLCPCB part number
Back C1-C4 Capacitor 330pF 0805 C376974
Back C8-C16 Capacitor 100nF 0805 C29926
Back C5-C6 Capacitor 10uF 4x5.4 C3343
Back R14, R17-R18, R27-R29 Resistor 1kΩ 0805 C17513
Back R30 Resistor 3.3kΩ 0805 C26010
Back R3-R5, R8 Resistor 5.1kΩ 0805 C27834
Back R1-R2, R7-R7, R9-R13, R15, R19-R26 Resistor 10kΩ 0805 C17414
Back R16 Resistor 100kΩ 0805 C57246
Back D1-D3 Diode 1N4148 SOD-123 C5443965
Back U1-U2 NAND gates CD74HCT132E SOIC-14 C484714
Back U3-U4 Op-amp LM324 SOIC-14 C7943
Back U6 Voltage regulator LM4040C50FTA SOT-23 C156291
Back U5 Op-amp TL072 SOP-8 C5310783