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17 years ago

FPGA Mounting

Can anyone help?If there is a way to mount FPGA's without complicated soldering process with IR heating? Can I mount FPGA on a Prototyping Area? I have no expericnce in this stuff. What is PLCC ...
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17 years ago

for modern FPGA anwer is no. Now smallest fpga (and cpld too) in the best case are packed into TQFP with step 0.5-0.8mm that's hard to hand soldering without solid expirience. In the past were some attempts to use socketing for a FPGA, for example PLCC, but it was many years ago.