Hi Everyone!!!
New here, just hoping to get a bit of advice/criticism. I'm doing an "upgrade" of a device used by a professor at my local university. It is a design from the late 80's/early 90's that I am adding a micro-controller to eliminate the old parallel port input and 555 timer sequencer. Keeping everything else in the design as close to the original as possible. I've built a few of these on proto-boards etc so the design works, but I'd like to make a surface mount PCB. I chose the parts/footprints mostly by what was available on JLCPCB as I want to have this built. I'm brand new to PCB design/layout so I was hoping to get some criticism on this design. I tried to separate the digital/analogue grounds to only meet at the power input if that makes sense. I attached the print with the original schematic, and my kicad files. Any advice would be welcomed and appreciated!!
Thanks,
John