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Re: gEDA-user: 24-pin SSOP woes - Whos right? gEDA or LT?



On Wednesday 03 March 2010 20:51:25 Anthony Shanks wrote:
> Boards came back yesterday and one of my footprints don't exactly
> match the vendor. I used gEDA's 24-pin SSOP format for this IC as the
> vendor said it was a 24 pin SSOP. I am not blaming gEDA as I should of
> checked before the boards went out. I did check for the footprints I
> made myself but did not check gEDA's IC footprints. 

The best lessons are the ones you learn the hard way. :-P

> Also, is there anyway to salvage this? 

- Put kapton tape down under where row of "floating" pins will sit
- Place part and solder row which fits to pads
- Get lots of fiddly bits of "bodge wire" and connect pins to pads.

Good luck! ;-)

                                 Peter

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Peter Brett <peter@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Remote Sensing Research Group
Surrey Space Centre

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