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Hello Eric, <br><br>TQFP is not too difficult with the right equipment; namely, a decent fine tip soldering iron (Metcal/OKI) and a pair of tweezers with a rubber band around them to hold the componants in place. There are probably far better ways of doing it but I've recently had to learn how to do it in a hurry and that was what seemed to work. It worked so well in fact that somebody stole my little improvised tool ...<br><br>I used M0805 sized resistors which are small but usable. Far more important is a decent pad size on the boards. <br><br>Hope that info is of some use to you. <br><br>Dave. <br><br>> I am working on laying out one of the boards for my thesis, and I have<br>> no experience with surface-mount soldering. The processor that I am<br>> using is available in DIP, TQFP, or MLF; how hard will it be to<br>> hand-solder either the TQFP or MLF package? Also, which size of<br>> resistors and such would you recommend?<br>> <br>> -- Eric<br><br><br /><hr />Get fish-slapping on Messenger! <a href='http://clk.atdmt.com/UKM/go/msnnkmgl0010000008ukm/direct/01/' target='_new'>Play Now</a></body>
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