Can you offer a part# as an example & link to a data sheet. ____________ Brian Guralnick
----- Original Message ----- From: "Steve Baldwin" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Protel EDA Forum" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Tuesday, March 05, 2002 4:25 PM Subject: [PEDA] TSSOP Power Pad | Does anyone have pointers to footprint guidelines for Power Pad | parts, particularly TSSOP (28 pin in this case). | | If I put a pad down the same size as the powerpad and screen | solder onto it, I would expect the part to sit up on the meniscus | when the solder melts and I'd get poor/missed joints at the pins. | I would have expected to have a pad the same size as the power | pad but to only screen a tiny bit of solder on to it. | This is all conjecture and I didn't find anything useful with Google or | my usual PCB links. | | Anyone know more about these things ? | | Steve. | | ====================================================== | Steve Baldwin Electronic Product Design | TLA Microsystems Ltd Microcontroller Specialists | PO Box 15-680, New Lynn http://www.tla.co.nz | Auckland, New Zealand ph +64 9 820-2221 | email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] fax +64 9 820-1929 | ====================================================== | | * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * To post a message: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] * * To leave this list visit: * http://www.techservinc.com/protelusers/leave.html * * Contact the list manager: * mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] * * Forum Guidelines Rules: * http://www.techservinc.com/protelusers/forumrules.html * * Browse or Search previous postings: * http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected] * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * *
