If you need to add one or two SMT chips to your breadboarded prototype, [Travis Hein] has you covered. He designed a set of small SMD adaptor boards for various SOIC, SOT23, and DPAC patterns using ...

Let’s face it friends, everything is moving toward surface mount components. We’ve seen quite a few features here that cover using stencils to populate boards and using ovens to reflow. [Oleg] has put ...

Many folks have bench type LCR meters available and employ the usual general purpose Kelvin type clips or direct connect fixtures for most measurements. When encountering SMD components these ...

The plating type is usually immaterial to the footprint geometry but is often incorporated somewhere in the vendor part ...