Fredric White wrote:
>
> Mostly as an excuse to try out Geocities (rhymes with atrocities), I
> uploaded a picture of an adapter I made recently, in case anyone is
> interested:
>
> http://www.geocities.com/SiliconValley/Station/1314/

The idea is to use those component carriers, or cable headers instead
the expensive pins. So your adapter board will have holes to receive the
headers, and you will transform your soic unit into a real dip one.  The
headers pin diameter is equivalent to DIP chips (0.019" - 0.49mm), so it
fits easily in protoboards and drilled pcb's with 0.025" or bigger
holes.

Take a look at this JDR example... cost $0.79 for a 14 pin dip, single
quantities.
http://www.jdr.com/interact/item.asp?itemno=gr-icc08
while Digikey charges $1.56 for a similar header at:
http://WWW.DIGIKEY.COM/CC/124.PDF
Digikey also sells covers for those headers, a 14 pin dip cover cost
$0.34.  You can "encapsulate" and protect your circuit...

If you have a space problem, the adapter board could be mounted
vertically in the middle of the header adapter, with small solid wires
connecting the header pins to the adapter board.