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16 years agoAssembling an FPGA board on 2 layers PCB
Hi all, is it possible to build a working board based on a Cyclone II/III FPGA 144pin in QFP package on a 2-layers only PCB? The board would also contain a FTDI device for USB communications and...
Altera_Forum
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16 years agoIf you put a lot of care and work into the design layout you could get it working on a 2 layer PCB (I'm going to catch a lot of flak for saying this).
But at the price of 4-layer boards nowadays I would use a 4-layer design. It will make life easy, especially as you are receiving data at a 100 MHz rate from an ADC. Do not forget that all those fast outputs need well terminated/designed transmission lines unless the distance traveled is less than 15 mm (what you will not be able to achieve on a 2-layer board).