Small Prop to PIC adapter (DIP8)

Tubular

Motivated entirely by a spare 0.66 x 0.44" void on the SmorgasBoard, this is a small Prop QFN to DIP8 adapter. The DIP8 format is that of the PIC (PIC12F6xx etc)

The intention is the pads underneath will be soldered to 0.1" male headers, very likely with some glue, to make it breadboard pluggable.

The castellated nodes along top and bottom edge are on 0.05" pitch and can be soldered to headers, a pcb, or standard IDC ribbon cable.

There are 6 output resistors for either TV out or (very basic) 3 pin monochrome vga

Cluso99

tubular: Very interesting concept. At least I can try soldering a QFN. To me, I don't play with PICs, so otherwise I would not find the PIC footprint useful. The option for TV resistors and series resistors is nice too.

However, perhaps if the DIP8 was in the format for the 24C512 Eeprom footprint it could be more useful. Then we could use it as an expansion to plug into some prop boards (although many use smt these days) ???


I do wish they had used a common set of power pins in these devices, just like on the 74xxx series.

WBA Consulting

Very nice, I love it! The concept is very clever. As for the DIP8 headers, Samtec and many others make surface mount header pins that would work for those pads to make a super clean DIP package.