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Subject: Re: DIL pins

From: "Phil" <phil1960us@...>
Date: 2004-02-11

I thought the 628 was an 18 pin chip. :)

You might want to look at mill-max dip IC sockets. They make fairly
long soldertail sockets. the pins are 20 mils wide and 170 mils
long. That might work though its a hack. mouser has them. p789 of
current catalog.

I'd suggest you skip the socket stuff altogether and build an ICSP
header on your target hardware. You could get an 18 pin socket and
solder on the 5 wires you need for the 5 (or 10) pin ISCP socket.
ICSP is 10X easier than prying the chip out of its socket and
sticking it into a programmer ∗every∗ ∗time∗ you make a change.
Also, you can just ICSP to a seperate socket.

Another approach is to get a "dip clip" and connect the appropriate
pins to the ISCP pins on your programmer. Then to program a chip in
circuit, you just clip on and program away.

Phil


--- In Homebrew_PCBs@yahoogroups.com, "Anthony Toft" <toftat@c...>
wrote:
> In my infinate wisdom, I built my pic programmer to program _only_
the
> 16F627 and '628 (both 28 pin). Now I am looking at other projects
and I am
> going to need more IO, so I need to built an "adapter" for these
bigger
> chips. I am looking for DIL pins that I can solder to the bottom of
my
> adapter and will plug into the 28 pin socket. Sort of like how the
basic
> stamp does. I have no idea to their name or where to find them.
>
> Any ideas?
>
> Thanks