Jason decided to upgrade his Papilio One board by replacing the onboard FPGA with a more powerful version.
Ok as you may have seen i have the Papilio One 250 board. I decided to do a upgrade instead of buying the 500E version. I decided to buy just the IC (FPGA) alone and desolder my old 250 IC and replace with a 500E.
This is possible because Xilinx uses a standard VQFP-100 package for their Spartan 3E devices.
Via Gadget Factory.
This might have been a little easier starting with a blank Papilio One board…