16 Oct
2013
16 Oct
'13
11:42 a.m.
FWIW, I have no problems with surface-mount soldering
(although I
must make a BGA rework oven sometime). The problem is htat most of
the ICs aren't avaialble as spare parts.
Now if you're happy trusting your data to
soemthing you don't fully
understnad, then fine.
Actually, tony, if you use any chips that are even moderately complex,
even if they're still being made (and thus are available as parts),
you're probably doing that yourself. Even a relatively simple CPU like
the Atmel (I think) 8-bitter I bought a bunch of as 16-pin DIPs a while
back is not completely documented even to the logic block level, never
mind to the gate level or transistor level. (Even if it were, you
pretty much have to blindly trust that that documentation is accurate.)
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