The PCBs arrived last night, but I had to wait for this morning for the box of parts from DigiKey - I almost got the timing right this time. Here's the assembled board with a Roman denarius for scale. It's pretty small. The #TinyFPGA Programmer is plugged in on top. It programs the FPGA just fine.
I was careful to apply just a little paste with a 25 Ga needle since I've been having issues with QFN packages. I still got 3 solder bridges I had to clean up with an iron, but otherwise it worked OK. I think my paste is getting old - it's probably two years old now and never been in the fridge (I can hear you cringing, people :-)
I wrote some quick test verilog just to make sure all the pins work, and they do.
Now, I can build a few more of these things and put them to use.
I think I'm going to make a composite video frame grabber as a test.
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