SMD Surface Mount Devices

For a great little Surface Mount practice kit, see Roman Black's Shift-1 wire serial LCD driver and project board

• Footprints / IC Package Types
• Sockets, Adapters and PCBs
• Soldering
• Desoldering

Surface mount devices have many advantages and a few disadvantages. More and more components are available only in SMT packages, so learning to work with them is becomming critical.

Also:

• "Manhattan" style construction

See also:

• https://hackaday.com/2018/12/22/clever-wedges-that-will-increase-your-pcb-assembly-yield/ Use alternating triangles on closely space pads to decrease bridging.+
• http://youtu.be/CO2Vv0YztBE Solder paste can be manually applied and components placed and re-flowed in a toaster oven
• http://www.fpga4fun.com/SMD.html
• http://www.poeth.com/smtmfg.htm
• SolderQuik Tape
• SURFACE MOUNT ZERO DEFECT DESIGN CHECK LIST
• http://www.ipc.org/index.html
• http://www.hitachi.co.jp/Sicd/English/Products/kyoutu/PKG/e810007B.pdf
• http://semiconductor.hitachi.com/products/pdf/xpxtd002d1.pdf
• http://www.ultracad.com/articles.htm
• http://freespace.virgin.net/kayode.ayandokun/STV5730A/SmartSoldering.htm
• vk3emspam at -Remove-hotmail.com http://www.geocities.com/vk3em/smtguide/smtguide.htm

Archive:

• PICList post "surface mount question..."

Comments:

• Lots of useful info, but a tad too professional. I was looking for more amateurish material. Interesting reading though.. Thanks..+

Questions:

• rafiq_azeemespam at -Remove-yahoo.com asks: " plz tell that how can understand the smd capacitore value and its working voltage" James Newton replies: Info on reading the values from SMD and other capacitors is found at Capacitors page. For others see components+

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