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you have a cutout underneath, with only a small overlap for the connection.

• thom_nic 10y ago
  Milled cut out in the middle of the mainboard seems like an annoying additional cost. Headers that raise the module off the board would be acceptable, except when vertical space is a constraint.
  • Palomides 10y ago
    You have to mill at least the outline of your board anyway, a little more is trivial.
    • durkie 10y ago
      yeah, it just seems like if it were really optimized for smt, they would have milled the back side of the CHIP and placed the flash et al components in there so that you wouldn't have to find the extra real estate on your own board.
      • Scaevolus 10y ago
        If you were really optimizing for cost, you wouldn't have a $16 monolithic board in the middle with extra components you don't need. Compared to that, the extra cost of milling the board you're placing it on is minimal.