I've not done that small, but I had no troubles with my home-fabbed
FT232BM board* . The FT232 isn't quite as small as your 0.5mm stuff-
0.8mm lead pitch, 0.4mm lead/trace width. I've not tried anything
smalled. My eyesight is not very good, so I find the soldering very very
hard. I tend to pick bigger components where possible.

* no troubles is a blatant lie. Although the traces came out nice, and
the chip soldered well, I forgot some of the power supply pins so it
didn't work. oops.


Thanks

Jon

> -----Original Message-----
>  On Behalf Of Daniel Chia
> Sent: 22 March 2005 14:28
> Subject: [EE] SMT on homemade pcbs
> 
> Hi,
> 	With so many nice chips only available in fine 
> pitch(0.5mm) QFP / LQFP / TQFP packaging, I was just 
> wondering whether it is actually feasible to do such chips on 
> a home made pcb or is it just wishful thinking on my part..
> ----------
> Daniel Chia

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