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duskwuff on Sept 6, 2012 | parent | context | favorite | on: Cubieboard: A small, high-performance ARM box

> As a bonus, though, it's all reasonably easy-to-assemble TQFP chips.

The A10/A13 require memory which is only available as BGA, though.

Zuph on Sept 6, 2012 [–]

Fair point. You can find BGA memories with ball spacing just slightly north of impossible, though. As far as I'm aware, that isn't possible with most (any?) A10/A13 chips.

duskwuff on Sept 6, 2012 | [–]

You might be surprised to learn that the A13 is available as QFP:

http://olimex.wordpress.com/2012/04/24/cortex-a8-in-tqfp-sur...

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