Are there chips attached to these SOIC pads?  If so, Mouser/Digikey/others 
sell "test clips" that clamp onto the SOIC chips to provide signal-attach 
points for all pins.

Cheers,
-Neil.


On Friday 10 August 2007 13:13, Marcel Birthelmer wrote:
> Hi all,
> I have the following situation: we have some boards here at work that
> have some SOIC pads on them. These are used for validation at the
> factory.
> It would be incredibly useful to us developers to be able to connect
> scope probes etc. to them, but of course that would require that wires
> be soldered onto them individually, which is inconvenient.
> So I'm looking for something that has a SOIC-style footprint and makes
> the individual signals available as pins so that scope probes can be
> attached.
> The problem is that any google search for "SOIC adapter" inevitably
> yields only adapters that let you attach a SOIC chip to a breadboard,
> not what I'm looking for.
> Does anyone have a source of these things or a better term to search
> for? Or does something like that not even exist?
> Cheers,
> - Marcel
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