Re: wire wrap advice

smailscott@xxxxxxxxx wrote:

I want to do make some prototype microcontroller boards with an 8051,
memory, latches, ... I think there will be about 10 ICs. I am new to
wire wrapping and need to purchase the tools, wire, and prototyping
board.

Can someone give me advice on what tools, prototyping boards to use?


As one who has done a lot of wirewrapping in my time, my advice would be not to do it. Prototype PCBs are now much more cheaply and quickly available than in the past, and you are unlikely to get bad wraps or signal problems. Wirewrapping gear is expensive, the less expensive the slower it is. Use a simple free PCB package, go to PCB Pool or PCB Train (in the UK- local alternatives otherwise), and you are also free to use SM components in the design without clumsy and terrifically expensive adapters.

I still use it occasionally if I need a one off very simple (slow, coarse analog or single- chip microcontroller) test circuit in a blazing hurry, but then I've got all the gear lying idle already.

Paul Burke
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