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15 years ago

PQFP or FBGA

Hi all !!. I'm designing a board with a Cyclone II, using NIOS, with SDRAM, SRAM, VGA DAC, and more.. I'm a bit tight with the pins involved in the design, although I could use a PQFP 208 pin, b...
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15 years ago

Cyclone, Cyclone II and Cyclone III devices in PQFP packages are available even at catalog distributors in volume quantities. I assume, they will life as long as the device families are continued at all, because they are used in many designs for similar reasons as you have, When scheduling a new product now, I would go for Cyclone III, unless special reason are hold against it. Recent Cyclone IV (and I guess new families as well) won't be made in these ancient and electrically slow packages.