Prototype board for SOIC packages.

Many modern opamps are only available in SMD devices. This makes prototyping difficult as these chips do not fit on a standard 100-mil protoboard. This board will allow you to integrate through-hole components such as resistors, capacitors etc with several SOIC SMD components.

The board includes pads only. There are no connections between any pads. As with standard 100mil protoboards, the user is invited to add wiring by soldering thin wires between pads.

We have chosen SOIC since this makes many modern opamps possible, and it is still large enough to allow manual soldering.

The board supports extra-long pads. These will support the standard 150-mil wide circuits, but also the wider 300-mil circuits.

An extra pair of power lines is provided underneath the SMD chips. These are present on both copper layers (top and bottom) and are interconnected top-to-bottom with via's. This makes it easy to wire power to the chips as needed.

The layout of the board

Specification
Board dimension50 x 80 mm
Board materialFR4
Board finishHASL
Thickness1.6 mm
SMD pads2 rows of 63 pads
SMD pad pitch1.27 mm (50 mil)
SMD pad typedouble-sided. Reachable from bottom layer
Interconnected top-to-bottom.
Full solder maskBoth sides
Matching package
    Supports all width variants:
  • SOIC (3.8mm body width) JEDEC MS-12
  • SOIC-W (7.5mm body width) JEDEC MS-13
  • SOP (5.3mm body width)
TH pads2 x 7 rows of 31 pads
TH padsdual-sided metallised.
TH pad pitch2.54 mm (100 mil).
Matching package
  • DIP-300
  • DIP-600
    TH drill size
0.8 mm.
  • Ideal for most TH components
  • Perfect match for pin headers
  • Too small for most TH connectors

  • Fotograph of the board

    Example project : Microphone amplifier with OPA4991