Re: gEDA-user: Another board with gEDA/PCB

[Stephen Meier <smeier@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Let me echo ...hello.....hello....hello...

I have had very complex board built with these tools. If the boards 
anyone else is trying to build dont work it is probably do to the 
manufacturing process of the boards and not due to the design tools. Hey 
if you can attach a bga with a toaster more power to you (or the oven 
got the bread the right collor of brown). using companies that are good 
at depositing 900 pin bgas has been successfull.

Steve Meier

Dave McGuire wrote:

> On Jun 30, 2005, at 3:04 PM, Darrell Harmon wrote:
>
> > I have recieved 2 prototypes of my design DSPCARD from ProtoExpress.  
> > It was designed using gEDA and PCB.  It is 4 layer 6mil 
> > track/space.   I have posted some information about it and pictures 
> > of the bare board at http://dlharmon.com/dspcard/index.html  Sorry 
> > about the bad scans.  The BGA part is a FPGA (256 balls, 1mm pitch)  
> > I plan to try soldering it in a toaster oven.  The board is about the 
> > size of a credit card.  Thanks to the developers for making this 
> > design possible.
>
>
>   I'm very curious to know your results from the toaster oven when you 
> try it.  I just received a tabletop reflow oven (a purpose-built one 
> ;)) and will be attempting a BGA (Xilinx CPLD) in it soon.  Good luck 
> with your efforts.
>
>   And I echo your "thanks" to the PCB developers...I sent out two 
> layouts yesterday, and I will likely be sending out a third today if I 
> can un-wrangle a few traces, all done with PCB (GTK version) on a Sun 
> UltraSPARC workstation running Solaris9.
>
>             -Dave
>
> --
> Dave McGuire             "I wonder what 'Error Code 1' means. That's
> Cape Coral, FL            what it said when it started smoking."  
> -Jonathan Patschke