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 <[email protected]>
Remote Sensing Research Group
Surrey Space Centre
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