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14 years ago

BGA Socket Adapters? or 2 FPGAs connected?

Hi guys, I'm doing a university project. I trying to design a board and i'm running into the problem of limiting pins and logic element counts. The university can only mount flat pack st...
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14 years ago

http://www.mill-max.com/products/newproducts_detail.cfm?pid=7

his is the only kind of "BGA socket" I've heard of.

The socket is itself BGA and the BGA device also needs to be soldered to a adapter. So, I don't think it will help you.

Using two FPGAs is possible, but you need to be careful about splitting your design because I/Os are slow.