On Sun, 4 Feb 2007 20:20:42 +0100, "Wouter van Ooijen" wrote:

<snip>
 
>For a developer that is almost OTP... And SMD packages only, so after N
>(100 or 1k) programming 
>cycles you'll have to ditch your PCB. How do you develop with those
>chips? Small PCB with only 
>the chip, and ditch only that? 

That's sure not a lot of programming cycles. For development, the
approach that I think I'd take would be to use an SMD-to-DIP adapter
board that could be plugged into a DIP socket on the main PCB.

Rather than trashing the adapter board, I'd try removing the old chip
and soldering a new one in place. That should be possible but would
need to be done carefully to avoid damaging the board.


Regards, Bob

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