I was talking to a guy who worked at Stanford a while back, and he
showed me that he had countless PLCC adapters he had planned to use
for classes that used FPGAs (I guess the students soldered the boards
or something?), but they were just sitting around because they got a
grant for a bunch of Xilinx Virtex-5s, which of course simply have
tons of BGA pins.

On Feb 22, 11:31 pm, Rick <[email protected]> wrote:
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> On 2/22/2011 8:52 AM, Adam Jacobs wrote:
>
> > Oops (red face of shame)... I accidentally linked the .05" pitch version, 
> > you're
> > right.
> > Here is the .1" version (63cents):
>
> >http://www.mouser.com/ProductDetail/ADAM-TECH/PLCC-28-AT-SMT/?qs=sGAE...
>
> > On 2/22/2011 8:44 AM, Adam Jacobs wrote:
> >> Trust me, I've used these sockets. It is a through-hole component suitable 
> >> for
> >> vectorboard. I don't know how it will work on breadboard, but vectorboard
> >> (.1") is fine.
>
> >> -Adam
>
> I've used these and they work fine - problem is, not much I'm interested
> in is available in PLCC. Picked up a bunch of obsolete Xilinx CPLDs in
> a PLCC44 package but they're really not good for much.
>
> And all modern FPGAs and a lot of the more advanced processors are in
> BGA format which is hopeless for home manufacture :-(
>
>   - Rick
>
> [email protected]
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