> At the end of the day both KiCAD and PCB pool came up trumps. Look in > the photos section for a shot of some detail I took while constructing > the prototype.
Ah, an LPC man. Nice micros. You probably knew this, but there is a yahoo forum for that family. Did you put a JTAG header on the board? Did you solder the micro by hand? I am looking to do some SMT boards, but I want to stick with packages that can be hand-soldered reasonably. The lead pitch on that package is a bit tight. If I may ask, why did you mix the SMT ARM with through-hole components? Ease of solderability? Our board design here at work is very mixed. We are leaning towards surface mount when possible, but since vibration will be a concern, for some larger packages we are using throughhole. Some TI integrated switching regulators are a good example. (Nice devices, BTW.) Also, I have a power supply design that is intended to be very flexible and I used quite a few throughhole devices to make it easier to substitute components depending on the host environment. Glad that PCB Pool had no trouble with the angle of the micro. Since the mask process is pretty much automated, it was really a question of whether or not there process would hande it, I think. Why did you rotate the LPC? Would that be an issue with pick and place machines were you to go to production? a+
