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The very low cost evaluation boards almost make up for not providing DIP packages.
by pdknsk 12y ago
The very low cost evaluation boards almost make up for not providing DIP packages.
- mmastrac 12y agoYeah, that's one thing that irked me here. I imagine that Adafruit and/or Sparkfun and/or Chinese resellers on eBay will fill the void and we'll end up with a dip-like breadboard. From the datasheet, it looks like they've explicitly dedicated those four extra pins to I/O, so I imagine this means there will never be a DIP equivalent. Is a sign that DIP packages are on the way out?
- swamp40 12y agoDIPs have been dead for a long time, with only a few exceptions. Replacement parts, hobbiest markets, and some optocouplers with huge spacing requirements are the only ones I can think of off the top of my head. RoHS requirements were one of the final nails in the coffin, but even before that the material costs were really eating into profit margins - especially for the larger microcontrollers. For the older standard parts, I think RoHS requirements forced die redesigns, and manufacturers didn't want to pay for an obviously dead trend, so a lot of old packages got dropped then.