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Waste of pins. You would need to quadruple number of pins or so (with a square shape, it may be worth to just have rectangular to just double). It is possible,
by GlitchMr 9y ago
Waste of pins. You would need to quadruple number of pins or so (with a square shape, it may be worth to just have rectangular to just double). It is possible, fairly sure, but not really practical.
- wccrawford 9y agoOr maybe only double the pins, if you no longer make it square. But you're right, it's a waste of time and money.
- zokier 9y agoCouldn't you hypothetically design the pinout to be suitably symmetrical to avoid major part of the wasted pins. For example if the chip has 4 memory channels, then lay out the memory pins identically but rotated in each quadrant. Same principle should apply to other major pin count consumers (pcie lanes, power/ground pins), which leaves somewhat small area that needs to be duplicated/quadrupled. Of course implementing such design would be ridiculously complicated with very little benefit. But it would be pretty cool though :)