Transferring my UNO project to a PCB, need help

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Hello, I’m trying to transfer my arduino uno project to a PCB. I made a schematic on CircuitMaker and was hoping someone here can kindly verify my connections and my work. It is my very first time doing something like this, so I am unsure about the work I’ve done.

I require a USB to both power up the atmega328 and to send serial data to and from a PC, so I am using a FT232RL chip. I am mostly concerned about the connections from the chip to the atmega328 UC. I tried my best to follow SparkFun’s FT232 breakout board schematic, but it got confusing for me here and there. I tried my best to refer to the FT232 datasheet as well.

Any help would be most appreciated!

Link to PDF schematic: http://1drv.ms/1VZuUTs

Thanks

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I took a quick look and didn’t see anything obviously wrong, but then I did not cross reference back to Uno or FTDI schematics. One thing that comes to mind is, how will the ATmega get programmed with the bootloader? Do you have an external programmer or are you expecting to program it in place? You can do it in place, but you need an ISP connection to load the bootloader.

Also, how accurate does your system clock need to be? You could use a ceramic resonator instead of a crystal and save some money and perhaps some space.

Good luck with your project!

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