<html><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; ">The SN76477 was produced in 2 form factors - standard dip, and a narrower version. (0.4" row sapcing I believe)<div><br></div><div>The BG micro lady told me the chips they have in stock are the narrower version - she didn't specify the exact spacing but after doing some internet hunting it looks like they will likely be 0.4". She recommended the breakout board to solve this. </div><div><br></div><div>FYI today I found this socket at digikey:</div><div><a href="http://search.digikey.com/scripts/DkSearch/dksus.dll?Detail&name=ED22284-ND">http://search.digikey.com/scripts/DkSearch/dksus.dll?Detail&name=ED22284-ND</a></div><div><br></div><div>Which I believe will work. Maybe if enough ppl order them w/ the next normal dorkbot group order they'll be cheap!</div><div><br></div><div>I need to verify the pin spacing - so far all I know for sure is that the chips BG micro carries fit the little breakout board they also carry.</div><div><br></div><div>For what it's worth.. if anyone is interested in the SN voice project.. I *think* these pcbs are still available <a href="http://mypeoplepc.com/members/scottnoanh/smselectronicssnvoicepcboard/">http://mypeoplepc.com/members/scottnoanh/smselectronicssnvoicepcboard/</a></div><div>These things accept both versions of the chip.</div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div>-Jesse</div><div><br></div><div><div><div>On Jul 3, 2009, at 3:31 PM, Greg Grunest wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><blockquote type="cite"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: auto; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-decorations-in-effect: none; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0; "><div lang="EN-US" link="blue" vlink="blue"><o:smarttagtype namespaceuri="urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:smarttags" name="PersonName"><div class="Section1"><div style="margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-left: 0in; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; "><font size="2" color="navy" face="Arial"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial; color: navy; ">I was wondering if someone could tell me what the breakout board was for. The chip specs posted on the BGmicro site<a href="http://docs.bgmicro.com/pdf/ics76477.pdf" style="color: blue; text-decoration: underline; ">http://docs.bgmicro.com/pdf/ics76477.pdf</a><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>show the IC as having standard 10<sup>th</sup><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>inch spacing (100mils x 600mils).<o:p></o:p></span></font></div><div style="margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-left: 0in; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; "><font size="2" color="navy" face="Arial"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial; color: navy; "><o:p> </o:p></span></font></div><div style="margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-left: 0in; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; "><font size="2" color="navy" face="Arial"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial; color: navy; ">Has someone seen the breakout board? Is there something I’m missing? Do I really need it? <o:p></o:p></span></font></div><div style="margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-left: 0in; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; "><font size="2" color="navy" face="Arial"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial; color: navy; "><o:p> </o:p></span></font></div><div style="margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-left: 0in; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; "><font size="2" color="navy" face="Arial"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial; color: navy; ">Should I have attended Don’s class and then I could make whatever boards I wanted and therefore control the universe? (insert maniacal laughter here)<o:p></o:p></span></font></div><div style="margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-left: 0in; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; "><font size="2" color="navy" face="Arial"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial; color: navy; ">Probably.<o:p></o:p></span></font></div><div style="margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-left: 0in; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; "><font size="2" color="navy" face="Arial"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial; color: navy; "><o:p> </o:p></span></font></div><div style="margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-left: 0in; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; "><font size="2" color="navy" face="Arial"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial; color: navy; "><o:p> </o:p></span></font></div><div><div class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align: center; margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-left: 0in; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; "><font size="3" face="Times New Roman"><span style="font-size: 12pt; "><hr size="2" width="100%" align="center" tabindex="-1"></span></font></div><div style="margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-left: 0in; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; "><b><font size="2" face="Tahoma"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Tahoma; font-weight: bold; ">From:</span></font></b><font size="2" face="Tahoma"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Tahoma; "><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="mailto:dorkbotpdx-blabber-bounces@dorkbot.org" style="color: blue; text-decoration: underline; ">dorkbotpdx-blabber-bounces@dorkbot.org</a><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>[<a href="mailto:dorkbotpdx-blabber-bounces@dorkbot.org" style="color: blue; text-decoration: underline; ">mailto:dorkbotpdx-blabber-bounces@dorkbot.org</a>]<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><b><span style="font-weight: bold; ">On Behalf Of<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></span></b>dan p<br><b><span style="font-weight: bold; ">Sent:</span></b><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>Thursday, July 02, 2009 10:28 PM<br><b><span style="font-weight: bold; ">To:</span></b><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><st1:personname w:st="on">A discussion list for dorkbot-pdx</st1:personname><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>(portland, or)<br><b><span style="font-weight: bold; ">Subject:</span></b><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>Re: [dorkbotpdx-blabber] Synth chip (SN76477) Group Order</span></font><o:p></o:p></div></div><div style="margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-left: 0in; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; "><font size="3" face="Times New Roman"><span style="font-size: 12pt; "><o:p> </o:p></span></font></div><div style="margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-left: 0in; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; "><font size="3" face="Times New Roman"><span style="font-size: 12pt; ">ah, thanks. Now that I have my mad board etching skills (thanx Don) I'll try to make my own...<o:p></o:p></span></font></div><div><div style="margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-left: 0in; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; "><font size="3" face="Times New Roman"><span style="font-size: 12pt; ">On Thu, Jul 2, 2009 at 7:41 PM, Thomas Lockney <<a href="mailto:dorkbotpdx@dorkbot.org" style="color: blue; text-decoration: underline; ">dorkbotpdx@dorkbot.org</a>> wrote:<o:p></o:p></span></font></div><div><div style="margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-left: 0in; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; "><font size="3" face="Times New Roman"><span style="font-size: 12pt; ">dan p wrote:<o:p></o:p></span></font></div><div style="margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-left: 0in; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; "><font size="3" face="Times New Roman"><span style="font-size: 12pt; ">I think I missed the part about break out boards?<o:p></o:p></span></font></div></div><div style="margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-left: 0in; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; "><font size="3" face="Times New Roman"><span style="font-size: 12pt; ">>From Jesse's earlier email:<o:p></o:p></span></font></div><div><blockquote style="border-top-style: none; border-right-style: none; border-bottom-style: none; border-width: initial; border-color: initial; border-left-style: solid; border-left-color: rgb(204, 204, 204); border-left-width: 1pt; padding-top: 0in; padding-right: 0in; padding-bottom: 0in; padding-left: 6pt; margin-left: 4.8pt; margin-right: 0in; "><div style="margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-left: 0in; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; "><font size="3" face="Times New Roman"><span style="font-size: 12pt; "><o:p> </o:p></span></font></div><div style="margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-left: 0in; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; "><font size="3" face="Times New Roman"><span style="font-size: 12pt; ">Sweet! Yeah I'll go ahead and put together a group order for these little guys. I just called and checked stock - they have "plenty". Apparently the package is a little odd so there is also a $3 breakout board they offer for it. Let me know if you want it as well.<br><br><a href="http://www.bgmicro.com/index.asp?PageAction=VIEWPROD&ProdID=12925" target="_blank" style="color: blue; text-decoration: underline; ">http://www.bgmicro.com/index.asp?PageAction=VIEWPROD&ProdID=12925</a><o:p></o:p></span></font></div></blockquote><div style="margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-left: 0in; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; "><font size="3" face="Times New Roman"><span style="font-size: 12pt; "><o:p> </o:p></span></font></div></div><div><div><div style="margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-left: 0in; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; "><font size="3" face="Times New Roman"><span style="font-size: 12pt; ">_______________________________________________<br>dorkbotpdx-blabber mailing list<br><a href="mailto:dorkbotpdx-blabber@dorkbot.org" target="_blank" style="color: blue; text-decoration: underline; ">dorkbotpdx-blabber@dorkbot.org</a><br><a href="http://music.columbia.edu/mailman/listinfo/dorkbotpdx-blabber" target="_blank" style="color: blue; text-decoration: underline; ">http://music.columbia.edu/mailman/listinfo/dorkbotpdx-blabber</a><o:p></o:p></span></font></div></div></div></div><div style="margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-left: 0in; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; "><font size="3" face="Times New Roman"><span style="font-size: 12pt; "><o:p> </o:p></span></font></div></div>_______________________________________________<br>dorkbotpdx-blabber mailing list<br><a href="mailto:dorkbotpdx-blabber@dorkbot.org" style="color: blue; text-decoration: underline; ">dorkbotpdx-blabber@dorkbot.org</a><br><a href="http://music.columbia.edu/mailman/listinfo/dorkbotpdx-blabber" style="color: blue; text-decoration: underline; ">http://music.columbia.edu/mailman/listinfo/dorkbotpdx-blabber</a></o:smarttagtype></div></span></blockquote></div><br></div></body></html>