[coreboot] Dual SPI Flash adapter

Peter Stuge peter at stuge.se
Thu Apr 5 01:53:51 CEST 2012


Oliver Schinagl wrote:
> There are 3 SO8 package footprints in PCB, SO8, SO8M and SO8W. None fit 
> 'perfectly'.

I'll see if I can send you a footprint I've used.


>> Thanks. I'll try to give some more detailed feedback, but one big
>> no-no that I've seen already is that your silk is covering pads.
>> Noone will do any cropping for you, so you will indeed get silkscreen
>> on your pads, which 1) potentially makes the board house unhappy
>> because it may make a mess in their machines, and 2) makes it
>> difficult for solder to flow over the pad.
> 
> Hmm, I assumed silk screening is applied last, as I have seen
> soldermasks and silkscreening covering via's. The only thing I
> cover IS via's ...

No. See attached file, or http://stuge.se/4.png if it gets stripped
from the list.


//Peter
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