I'll first mention that I am fully aware that this is not related to PICAXE microcontrollers, so I apologise in advance if I shouldn't be talking about it here -- but I don't know of any other electronics forum with a high concentration of UK-based members.
In a nutshell, I have an IC (a Z80180 MPU) packaged as a shrink DIP 64. There is a 0.07" (1.78mm) gap between pins and 0.75" (19.05mm) between the two rows of pins. All of the existing equiment I have and other components expect 0.1" gaps between pins. Does anyone have any recommendations as to the best way to access this IC? I have no PCB manufacturing equipment, and my best idea thus far is to acquire a wire wrap shrink DIP 64 package (which I have not yet found) in the correct dimensions, splay out the pins and plug/solder them into a DIP 64 socket at the correct size or a pair of SIP 32 sockets.
In the meantime, I have been experimenting with the other components I intended to use with this Z180 with a PICAXE-28X1, and (as ever!) have appreciated the rapid development that the PICAXE series offer.
Getting something meaningful on a 128x64 LCD took all of fifteen minutes!
In a nutshell, I have an IC (a Z80180 MPU) packaged as a shrink DIP 64. There is a 0.07" (1.78mm) gap between pins and 0.75" (19.05mm) between the two rows of pins. All of the existing equiment I have and other components expect 0.1" gaps between pins. Does anyone have any recommendations as to the best way to access this IC? I have no PCB manufacturing equipment, and my best idea thus far is to acquire a wire wrap shrink DIP 64 package (which I have not yet found) in the correct dimensions, splay out the pins and plug/solder them into a DIP 64 socket at the correct size or a pair of SIP 32 sockets.
In the meantime, I have been experimenting with the other components I intended to use with this Z180 with a PICAXE-28X1, and (as ever!) have appreciated the rapid development that the PICAXE series offer.
Getting something meaningful on a 128x64 LCD took all of fifteen minutes!