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It's always a bit disappointing when you have one of these pages and it's just "the designers left a footprint to fit the part" and no bodging required. Still,
by fredoralive 5y ago
It's always a bit disappointing when you have one of these pages and it's just "the designers left a footprint to fit the part" and no bodging required.
Still, seems a useful bit of forethought from the designers.
- londons_explore 5y agoIt's pretty rare designers don't leave a footprint for antenna connectors. The footprint is pretty small, and makes debugging and testing of the software stack far easier since you can plug the connector into other hardware which simulates other wireless devices, without requiring an expensive and hard to use RF chamber.
- buescher 5y agoThey use it in their part 15 compliance testing. Conducted power output is a standard test. The alternative is bodging a connector onto the board.
- PragmaticPulp 5y agoThe number of people doing this mod is probably less than 1 in 10,000 to 1 in 100,000 units shipped. If the connector cost was $0.25, that could mean the Raspberry Pi foundation was spending $2,500 to $25,000 for every one person doing this mod. It would be a very poor financial decision. Including the footprint is free, though.
- soneil 5y agoI believe not including the connector factors into their FCC certification