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Subject: Re: [Homebrew_PCBs] New CPLD PCB

From: Stefan Trethan <stefan_trethan@...>
Date: 2004-07-19

On Mon, 19 Jul 2004 18:29:03 -0000, leon_heller <leon_heller@...>
wrote:

> I've just uploaded pics of the top and bottom of my latest home-made
> PCB to Photos>Leon's>CPLD_Top.jpg and CPLD_Bottom.jpg. The CPLD is an
> Altera EPM7064B in the 44-pin TQFP package (64 macrocells and 36
> I/Os). A pad lifted when I was tinning them with a piece of desolder
> braid loaded with solder - the braid was too wide and the bit too
> large. The other bodge is a missing ground connection on a decoupling
> capacitor.
>
> I've only connected a few of the I/Os as the board is intended as a
> simple working demo for a customer to play with.
>
> Leon

hard to see in the photos section, so small...
which method did you say you made it with?

ST