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Or maybe only double the pins, if you no longer make it square. But you're right, it's a waste of time and money.
by wccrawford 9y ago
Or 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 :)