Lawrence Lile writes:
>Surely you folks have run into this problem before.  How do you go
>about testing, debugging and prototyping a surface mount design?

        This is an excellent question.  Please share your answers with
the list.

        Obviously, if one can find a socket that properly holds a PLCC
or other SMD, then conventional techniques can be used.  I was once
lucky enough to find a 52-lead PLCC socket for a Motorola 68HC11 plus
a nest of wire-wrap pins that would receive the socket and this worked
perfectly, but it is hard to get that lucky on a regular basis.

        I wonder if we are going to see the end of through-hole
technology because surface-mount construction is obviously a more
cost-effective way to build things?


Martin McCormick WB5AGZ  Stillwater, OK
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