IPC-SM Library Option

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The optional IPC Surface Mount (SM) library contains supplementary component and PCB symbol libraries for use with Easy-PC, version 13.0 or later.

The Institute for Interconnecting and Packaging Electronic Circuits (IPC) defines a number of standards for electronic devices. One of these is the "Surface Mount Design and Land Pattern Standard" IPC-SM library, This specification has evolved from the old IPC-SM-782 standard, and defines the physical packaging characteristics and land patterns for a range of surface mounted devices. The IPC-SM library is also a useful reference document for general surface mount design techniques, containing sections on design requirements, reliability and testability.

The PCB symbol library contains approximately 1,237 surface mount devices in a range of package types. These include chip capacitors, flat packs and chip carriers, in a range of sizes and pin counts, as defined in the standard. The component library contains the same number of items as the PCB symbol library, with a one-to-one correspondence in naming. The items in this library can be used "as is" when creating PCB layouts 'directly' by adding 'generic' components. They can also be copied to new components and edited using the Library tools in Easy-PC to quickly and easily create your own 'specific' components for particular devices.

Upgrades are available if you have the older IPC-782 library.

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  Discrete Devices
Chip Capacitors
Aluminium Electrolytic Capacitors
Molded Body Capacitors (Polarised)
MELF Diodes
Molded Body Diodes
Chip Inductors
Molded Chip Inductors
Wire-Wound Chip Inductors
Chip Resistors
MELF Resistors
Small Outline Transistors (SOT)Diodes (SOD)
  Flat Pack Devices
Ceramic Flat Packs (CFP)
Bumper Quad Flat Packs (BQFP)
Ceramic Quad Flat Packs (CQFP)
Plastic Quad Flat Packs (PQFP)
Quad Flat Packs (QFP)
Shrink Quad Flat Pack (SQFP)
Thin Quad Flat Pack (TQFP)
Thin Shrink Quad Flat Pack (SQFP)
Chip Carrier Devices
Leadless Ceramic Chip Carriers (LCC)
Plastic Leaded Chip Carriers (PLCC)
IC Packages
Small Outline ICs (SOIC)
Small Outline J-Lead ICs (SOJ)
Small Outline Packages (SOP)
Shrink Small Outline ICs (SSOIC)
Thin Small Outline Packages (TSOP)
Thin Shrink Small Outline Packages (TSSOP)
Ball Grid Arrays (BGA)

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