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SMT Package Types

SOT

Small Outline Transistor Normally specified without dash between SOT and the number:

SOT23-3 is a three pin device with a 0.95mm lead pitch

The number after the dash is the number of pins.

SOIC or SO or SOP

The EIAJ SOIC body was supposed to be approximately 5.3 mm wide, while the JEDEC SOIC body was supposed to be approximately 3.8 mm leading to endless confusion.

Despite what you will read, there is not one standard - every company was smoking something different and the designations were used for what the engineer thought it meant rather than what it might have meant, thus it is important to use the pitch, pin-count, and body-width in the foot-print name. SOIC or SO or SOP or SOG etc etc.. do not have precise meanings! You have been warned. It is not a good idea to assume that one SOP-8 is the same as another - always look at the data sheets! As a default use the SO designation.

Naming or specifying SO type packages

While the names differ a bit, all of these can be specified with just a few numbers:

• The PC (pin count)
• The lead pitch
• Distance between the heels is closely related to the body width which stands in as a proxy.
• Distance between the LT(lead tips) - which again is mostly a function of BW(body width).
• The width of the leads is pretty much controlled by optimizing for the LP(lead-pitch).

Thus SO(LP)-(PC)-(BW) is all we normally need. One can add a LT at the end if needed.

Normal lead pitch is 1.27mm - most common best designated as

SOIC127-8-3.8 for an 8 pin device(JEDEC).

Less common would be the wide one Best designated as

SOIC127-8-5.3

Sometime called SOIC-8W or SO-8W

SOIC are supposed to fall into standard body-widths - but of course there are exceptions.

If you look at manufactures recommended land-patterns(foot-prints) for the same package you will find variation. There can be variations based on trade-offs of placement density vs reliability.

optoisolators can have 2.54mm pitch Example SO254-4-4.4 - 2.54mm pitch, 4 pins, 4.4mm body width, but the pins are narrow like a 127 pitch.

SO(SOP) with pin spacings less than 1.27 mm include PSOP, TSOP,TSSOP

PSOP Plastic Small Outline Package

TSOP Thin Small Outline Package

Thin small outline package (TSOP)

TSSOP Thin ShrinkSmall Outline Package

Thin-shrink small outline package (TSSOP)

SSOP ShrinkSmall Outline Package

Shrink small outline package (SSOP)

SOJ

J-leads

MSOIC

Best called micro-SOIC. This case is much smaller with a pitch of only 0.5mm - always check the data sheet! MSOIC50-10-3.0 case 0.5mm pitch - 10 pins - 3mm width

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