Re: Stellation Mill 6809 card clone / FPGA

[steve.howell@altium.com.au]

>
> And, again, is anyone going to fabricate these and offer them for sale?  Or,
> am I the only one that's intimidated by the thought of soldering microscopic
> chip resistors and caps and 100-lead SMD chips?

Carte Blanche is being prepared for assembly as I type. There will be
enough of these. The board will go into review soon. Its just going to
take a little time.

If you dont wish to assemble one, you are very welcome to buy one pre-
built. But soldering 0402's is actually a lot easier than it looks.
With the footprints we use on the card, they are thermally balanced at
each end. A blob of solder is like a mini wave solder for these
devices. All I can say is, you really should give it ago. You'll be
suprised after a bit of practise they go together quite willingly.

Steve