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From: Bjorn Olsson<Bjorn.Olsson@I...>
Date: Mon Dec 15 19:38:39 CET 2003
Subject: [oc] Prototyping BGA devices
Hi Colin,well I am afraid I have to dissapoint you. BGA's are a pain to work
with if you do not have the right equipment and right experience.
A BGA socket adaptor is one solutions though, but you would have to
get the socket assembled by someone. Are you going to exchange your
FPGAs a lot?
Given you should just put an FPGA on a board, I would contact an
assembly house and have them do it for me. That is by far the cheapest
way to go. If you are going to exchange your FPGA to other devices
I would have the same assembly house mount the socket instead.
That will save you a lot of grief in the long run...
Good luck!
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Best regards
Björn Olsson
Vice President Production
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Colin F. MacKenzie wrote:
> Hi all, Sorry if this is not exactly about open cores, but I think you
> people can answer my question the best. I was wondering what tools any
> of you who have worked with BGA packaged devices (namely FPGA) have used
> in prototyping your design. I don’t have, nor can I really justify to my
> superiors, a rework station. Is there a cheap & dirty method to working
> with BGA such as using solder paste or BGA socket adapters? I will be
> working with a Fine Pitch (1mm) Thin BGA FT256 FPGA.
>
>
>
> Thanks,
>
> Colin
>
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