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DO-15 is a JEDEC axial through-hole package for diodes, also designated DO-204AC, with a molded plastic body roughly 5.5–7.6 mm long and 2.6–3.6 mm in

A DIP-64 package is a 64-lead dual in-line component with pins on a 2.54 mm (0.1 in) pitch, built as either plastic (PDIP) or ceramic

A DIP-6 package is a six-lead through-hole dual in-line body on 2.54 mm pitch with 7.62 mm row spacing. Those two numbers are fixed across

A DIP-48 is 15.24 mm between lead rows on 2.54 mm pitch, with a hole pattern spanning 58.42 mm. Almost nobody sells a 48-pin IC

A DIP-40 is 15.24 mm between lead rows on 2.54 mm pitch, and the hole pattern spans 48.26 mm end to end. It is the

A DIP-4 is 7.62 mm between lead rows on 2.54 mm pitch, and it is almost always an optocoupler. That changes the design problem: the

A DIP-32 is almost always 15.24 mm between lead rows on 2.54 mm pitch, and almost always holds parallel memory. The 300-mil variant exists in

A DIP-28 is either 7.62 mm or 15.24 mm between lead rows, and the narrow one is the package almost everyone means. Pitch stays 2.54

A DIP-8 package is an 8-lead dual in-line component on a 2.54 mm (0.1 in) pitch, with a 7.62 mm (300 mil) row spacing as

A DIP-24 comes in two row spacings that share nothing but the 2.54 mm pitch: 7.62 mm and 15.24 mm. Unlike most DIP sizes, both