Starting the I/O and Timing board

I figured the best way to be sure all the right components got on the I/O and Timing board was to create an Eagle project for it. So I did. And promptly realized that a lot of the Eagle configuration I'd gotten used to has to be done on a per-board basis, like trace width and via drill diameters. This is the first i4004 board I've started since late 2012, and you can forget a lot in three years.

There are three major functional groups on this board:

1. A self-initializing 8-bit shift register that produces the one-hot CPU phase of execution signals (A12, A22, A32, M12, M22, X12, X22, X32) and the SYNC signal.
2. The 5-bit Chip Select decoder and external output drivers (CMROM, CMRAM0 to CMRAM3). This is the chunk of logic that I moved off the ALU board.
3. The 4-bit, tri-state, bi-directional data bus external pin I/O drivers.

I haven't made a screen shot of the layout yet. I'm at about the half-way point, with the first two groups placed and partially routed. The layout is moving so rapidly because there is a lot of repetition within each group. The shift register is essentially 8 copies of the same 1-bit pattern, with a minor variation on the first (A12) and last (X32) bits, plus some logic to generate the SYNC signal. Once I found a layout that worked well for two adjacent bits the rest follow the pattern. The five Chip Select output drivers are all the same and the decode logic has common elements. I haven't started laying out the data bus I/O drivers yet, but it will be four instances of the same layout pattern -- one for each bit -- plus a little decode logic.

I expect the parts I've already placed will shift position (and possibly rotate in the case of the Chip Select logic) to accommodate the data I/O drivers but I don't expect any problems making it all fit. This board has the fewest components of any board in the set and there's quite a bit of free space left.