[coreboot] Good source for SOIC clips
Felix Held
felix-coreboot at felixheld.de
Sat Mar 19 22:16:02 CET 2016
> There are a number of chinese websites offering cheap SOIC clips, the
> most widely known is probably Alibaba/Aliexpress:
> http://www.aliexpress.com/wholesale?catId=0&initiative_id=&SearchText=SOIC+clip
>
> These are certainly much cheaper than the expensive ones available in
> the "west" - though I don't know if the quality is adequate.
> Should you order some it would probably be interesting to give
> feedback on that.
With those cheap SOIC clips with wires you might need to replace or at
least make the wires shorter to be able to read and write the flash
chips reliably. I use some of the cheap SOIC8 clips and they work quite
well with better and shorter wires.
Regards
Felix
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