Mastodawn

thanks to AI demand, Lattice cannot make enough FPGAs to fulfill orders on iCE40's (and probably ECP5's) with less than a year of lead time. this is likely to cause supply chain issues for Glasgow revD

words cannot describe my contempt for this shit, and my disdain for anyone still pushing it

(there is no shortage or supply chain issues with the silicon itself. rather, the problem here is the resin used to make a part of the packaging. in theory it would be possible to just glue a die to the PCB and bond it out during assembly, in practice this would be prohibitively expensive as far as I know)

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Andrew Zonenberg Mar 10

@whitequark is the part available in WLCSP? Even if it means a more expensive PCB for early units, a polyimide RDL should not be affected by a BT shortage

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ckfinite

@azonenberg @whitequark It looks like the closest package for the 8K is the CB132, which is just a high density BGA package and might not have enough IO for the glasgow anyways. I think that this is a curse of the original ICE40s being a bit old, unfortunately.