On Mon, Jan 10, 2011 at 1:25 PM, Jon Povey <[email protected]> wrote: > [email protected] wrote: >> They didn't have any 0.05" pre-crimped solutions that I could >> find. > > Crimping your own is not hard with something solid to push down with (bit of > wood or such). > >> It seems like everybody is doing something different.... Throw in >> that a lot of application PCBs don't have anything resembling a normal >> JTAG 0.1" or 0.05" connector and then you're off to the hw engineer >> on the project to have him put something together... > > imo basic soldering / electrical skills are part of being an embedded > engineer, if you want to play around trying to fit square pegs in round holes. > > To abuse a famous quote; give a man a vendor cable and he can program one > board. Teach him to fabricate his own cables.. >
Hah, I am the hw engineer (as well) and I crimp most of my cables with my trusty long nose pliers. I don't have much in the way of fancy crimping tools, but haven't ever really needed them (they do a nice job though when you can get them). I must say though if I want my cables to last a little longer I'll but a dab of solder in the crimp as well. On a more useful front, for 0.1" pitch connectors, the most flexible option is individual labelled pins on each line, like what altium have done with their breakout cable: http://www.altium.com/community/newsletters/february-09/en/jtag_adapter.cfm If you need to plug/unplug it a fair bit just tape the pins together in the right shape, then pull the tape off for the next layout. Andrew _______________________________________________ Openocd-development mailing list [email protected] https://lists.berlios.de/mailman/listinfo/openocd-development
