Surface mount packages fall into five working families: two-terminal chip passives, small-signal SOT/SC packages, tabbed power packages, leaded ICs, and leadless or ball-array ICs. Each
Every SOP package type is the same basic idea — a rectangular, surface-mount IC with gull-wing leads on two sides — pushed along one of three
An SOT (Small Outline Transistor) package is a small, plastic, surface-mount package with gull-wing leads on two sides, used for transistors, diodes, voltage references, and small
SMD package types fall into three groups: passive chip packages named by case code, discrete transistor and diode packages in the SOT and SOD families,