Lpc2000

Hi

I think it is an anachronism to use dip anymore.
And second I don't see how to put more then 40 pins on dip.
There are many cheap prototyping boards that map an qfp ic to dip,
why not buying one of these ?

Real enginneers use smd ;-)

Cheers
Michael


>From: "Pont, Dr M.J." <Michael.Pont@...>
>Reply-To: lpc2000@yahoogroups.com
>To: <lpc2000@yahoogroups.com>
>Subject: Re: [lpc2000] Re: New poll for lpc2000
>Date: Thu, 29 Sep 2005 16:28:10 +0000
>
> >
> > From: "Gus"
> >
> > I could be the only one asking for this but
> > I am really dreaming of an ARM DIP package
> > that can be prototyped very easilyon a bread
> > board.
>
>For those of us who spend some of our time teaching in universities, etc, 
>this would be perfect.
>
>Price isn't too critial ($5?).
>
>If you want to inspire people to buy LPC2xxx chips, then they need to get a 
>flashing LED running on a breadboard in a project.  An evaluation board is 
>good - but real engineers use a breadboard...
>
>Michael.
>
>
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>  Michael J. Pont, PhD
>  Embedded Systems Laboratory,
>  University of Leicester
>
>  http://www.le.ac.uk/eg/mjp9/
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