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15 years ago

PCIe on a Cyclone II?

I'm looking at building a mini-PCIe card containing an FPGA, and the Cyclone II caught my eye on the PCIe Integrators List (it's the first link on Google for those terms; I can't link to it because I...
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15 years ago

Thanks again for the reply. Soldering BGA with a heat gun is a "last resort" option for me. I'll do that if there's simply no other way to get an FPGA connected to PCIe, but I'd prefer to avoid it. Doing that would probably require me to buy several FPGAs and PCBs (because I'll destroy some while trying to solder them) and it'd be hard to test just how good the connection is once it's done.