Few words about SMD-Surface Mount components Electronic hobbyists have noticed that it is harder to find some particular electronic elements in DIP packages. Many microcontroller types are released only in SMT packages like QFP64, LQFP package series. Bigger IC's like AVR32 or FPGA where BGA packages comes with up to 672 and more connectors. Today electronics is shifting to SMT (Surface Mount Technology) or SMD (Surface Mount Devices) area. DIP domination has left behind.They won’t be vanished from electronics industries as there many areas where they are and will be successfully used. But as electronic circuit complexity grows, demand on PCB miniaturization increases there is no other way as [...] electronics in Public bookmarkswith miniaturizationmountpcbsmdsurfacetechnology
What is surface mounting What is surface mounting technology and what benefits it has over the through hole board technology. Simply talking surface mounting is a soldering technology where component is soldered directly to a series of solder pads called a footprint. It is different soldering technology from through hole, where component leads are inserted into holes of the board. Footprint is a series of pads that conform to the lead layout of packages of [...] electronics in Public bookmarkswith againstholehowsmdsmtthroughtowithwork