Have you found a chip for your project, only to have to make a PCB for it?

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Have you tried to look for an evaluation board or micro-controller or otherwise to work as part of your project, only to discover you need to flesh out more of a solution and design a printed circuit board for it before you can use it?

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michaelkellett over 5 years ago +2

I don't expect to find or use evaluation boards as part of a project. I use them occasionally but in the end things usually need their own board. MK
koudelad over 5 years ago in reply to michaelkellett +1

I agree that in the end you usually need your own board. However, I have noticed at work that we were bitten a few times because of not using a single component evaluation board. We than had to shave off…
Fred27 over 5 years ago +1

I took the question to mean "have you ever wanted to use a part that had no evaluation board available" - i.e. you had to jump straight to a design without the dev board prototype stage. I have always…

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charlieo21 over 5 years ago

Sometimes it's better to make your own board because you have many chips and circuits interconnected that you have to use a lot of wires to connect all the evaluation boards and you have many wire problems. So at the end, you have to design your own board.
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charlieo21 over 5 years ago

Sometimes it's better to make your own board because you have many chips and circuits interconnected that you have to use a lot of wires to connect all the evaluation boards and you have many wire problems. So at the end, you have to design your own board.
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