Wednesday 11 July 2012

SOIC/SOP to DIP breakout board

We recently bought some shift registers from Farnell but being SMT they're not easy to use on a breadboard /prototyping system so we knocked up a simple breakout board for them. These boards should suffice for any SOIC device, to make it suitable for plugging into a breadboard.

Interestingly, the parts are listed as SOP-sized but in ExpressPCB there were no component layouts for SOP. We chose SOIC instead and the layout was a perfect match. So is SOP and SOIC the same layout? The jury's still out on that one.

In the meantime, here's our breakout board layout.
Don't forget to download and print from Adobe Acrobat Reader, not directly from Google Chrome!


Soic Breakout 16 Pin

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