Glide is the common name for a widely used type of electronic prototyping board that is characterized by a normal (rectangular) lattice of 0.1 inches (2.54 mm), with a wide parallel strip of a running copper cladding in one direction all the way across one side of the board. It is generally also known by the name of Veroboard's original product, which is a trademark, in the UK, the UK company Vero Technologies Ltd and the Canadian company Pixel Print Ltd. In using boards, breaks are made on the rails, usually around the hole, to split the strip into multiple electrical nodes. With caution, it is possible to break between holes to allow components that have two rows of pins just one separate position such as a twin row header for IDC.
Stripboards are not designed for surface-mount components, although it is possible to install many such components on the track side, especially if the tracks are cut/shaped with a knife or small cutter disc in a rotary device.
Video Stripboard
Variations
Stripboards are available from many vendors. All versions have copper strips on one side. Some are made using etch printed circuit boards and drilling techniques, although some have milled strips and perforated holes. The original Veroboard uses a resin-bound paper FR-2 (SRBP) (also known as a phenolic board) as a base board material. Some stripboard versions now use higher quality FR-4 (fiberglass-reinforced epoxy laminate) materials.
Maps Stripboard
Hole spacing
The stripboard hole was drilled at 0.1 inches (2.54 mm) centrally. This distance allows the component to have a pin with a distance of 0.1 inches (2.54 mm) to be inserted. Compatible components include DIP IC, sockets for ICs, some types of connectors, and other devices.
Stripboards have evolved over time into several variants and related products. For example, larger versions use 0.15 inch grid (3.81 mm) and larger holes are available, but are generally less popular (probably because they do not fit the standard pin pin of the IC).
Board dimensions
Stripboards are available in various sizes. One common measure (at least in the UK) is 160 mm x 100 mm.
Assemblies
Components are usually placed on the plain side of the board, with the edges protruding through the holes. The lead is then soldered to a copper track on the other side of the board to make the desired connection, and any excess wire is disconnected. Continuous tracks can be easily and neatly cut as desired to form a pause between conductors with 3 mm rotary drillers, hand-made cutters for purpose, or knives. Tracks can be connected on both sides of the board using cables. By practice, very neat and reliable assemblies can be created, although such methods are labor-intensive and therefore unsuitable for production assemblies except in very small quantities.
The external wire connection to the board is made either by welding the cable through the hole or, for cables that are too thick to pass through the holes, by soldering it to a specially made pin called Veropins that fits inside the hole. Alternatively, some types of connectors have an appropriate pin spacing to be inserted directly onto the board.
Comparison with other systems
Wire wrap
For high density prototypes, especially digital circuits, wire wraping is faster and more reliable than Stripboard for experienced personnel.
Breadboard
Veroboard is similar in concept and use to breadboard plug-ins, but is cheaper and more permanent - the connection is soldered and while some limited reuse is possible, more than a few soldering and soldering cycles tend to make both components and boards unusable. In contrast, breadboard connections are held by friction, and breadboard can be reused many times. However, breadboard is not very suitable for prototypes that need to be fixed in configurations that are set for a reasonably good time period or for physical mock-ups containing work circuits or for environments that are subject to vibration or movement.
Prototype Board
Stripboards have evolved further into a larger class of prototype boards, available in various shapes and sizes, with different conductive track layouts.
TriPad
For example, one variant is called a TriPad board. This is similar to a stripboard, except that the conductive tracks do not run continuously along the board but are split into sections, each of which includes three holes. This allows the legs of two or three components to be easily connected together on the circuit comfortably without the need to break the tracks that must be made. However, to connect more than three holes simultaneously, wire joints or bridges should be established and this may result in a less compact layout than is possible with ordinary stripboard.
Perf
Another variant is Perf. This is best described as a selective stripboard. Instead of having all the holes connected together in a strip, the Perf board can have a hole connected to the bus using a little solder. On the other hand the bus goes the other way, allowing the layout of complicated circuits by compactly sending signals to each other on different layers of boards.
Perma-Proto
Adafruit Industries offers a variety of stripboard that is very similar to the traditional breadboards layout. Perma-Protos has a bus bar on the top and bottom columns, and offers 15, 30 or 60 rows with each row divided into two 5-hole sections. Note that Perma-Protos is not 100% compatible with breadboards. For example, the space between the bus bar columns and rows is shorter, so components designed to straddle the bus bar from the breadboard exactly, like the power supply, will not match.
More
Other prototype board variants have generic layouts to simplify prototype buildings with integrated circuits, usually in the form of DIP, or with transistors (bearing forming triangles). In particular, some boards mimic the breadboard layout, to simplify moving a non-permanent prototype on a breadboard to a permanent construction on a PCB. Some board types have patterns for edge connectors, such as DB9 or IDC headers, to allow connectors with non-standard pin spans for easy use. Some come in special physical form, to be used for prototype plug-in boards for computer bus systems.
See also
- Point-to-point construction
- Perfboard
References
Source of the article : Wikipedia
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