What the title says, what is the acceptance of SMD chips in the community?
I see that all PICAXEs are now available in SMD packages, are people happy using these on a development board or are DIPs still preferred?
There is at least one obvious benefit to DIPs and that is you can easily replace the chip if you let the smoke out, but does this really happen much? Is it worth the extra PCB real estate for that?
I see that all PICAXEs are now available in SMD packages, are people happy using these on a development board or are DIPs still preferred?
There is at least one obvious benefit to DIPs and that is you can easily replace the chip if you let the smoke out, but does this really happen much? Is it worth the extra PCB real estate for that?