Bodge wires to the rescue!!! Yeah baby, yeah!!! :-) I've used these before; I have even seen them on consumer products, but, I have never used 14 of them on one chip!

It works a treat. It took about an hour, soldering under a microscope. I used "wire-wrap" wire, tweezers and I forget how many cokes. ;-) It was like 40 degress C in the lab. (Hot today, it's summer here in OZ.)

I couldn't sleep last night, I was sooo annoyed I screwed up the footprint, so I decided to use the bodge wires then and there; and since I was up anyway, I baked the board with the components that _did_ fit. :-)

Btw: The PIC processor differs to the BOM; however, it's pin compatible. (This one has more SRAM) It's a dsPIC33FJ32MC302; The oscillator is only 2MHz, not 10; I have no idea where I put the 10MHz crystals.. they in one of the plethora of parts boxes in the lab's cupboard. I'll use them on the updated board when I get around to it.