Re: gEDA-user: 8 pin SOIC footprint

[Matt Ettus <boyscout@xxxxxxxxx>]

The problem is that there are 2 kinds of SOIC -- wide and narrow.

Matt


On Sun, Jan 18, 2009 at 1:56 PM, Bdale Garbee <bdale@xxxxxxx> wrote:
> On Sun, 2009-01-18 at 16:38 -0500, Rob Butts wrote:
>> I looked in PCB; is the 8 pin SOIC called SO8?
>
> That's one of them.  Be careful, though, experience has shown that
> there's more than one part width that silicon vendors call a SOIC.  I've
> gotten to the point where I check every footprint's dimensions against
> vendor part data, and also do things like printing out footprints to see
> how real parts look sitting on them...
>
> Bdale
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