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by gaudat 824 days ago
It all comes down to cost. These BGA chips have pins under the device unlike older packages like QFP or DIP. The pattern of missing pins is designed so it a fewer signal layers to bring out all the sigal connections in a typical PCB process. Devices with full grids would need more layers or tighter tolerances.

The appeal of STM32MP1 is you can put DDR momery with the chip on a 4 layer board. ST even provides the layout.