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Using Amphenol cables to wire devices together

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Henryk Paluch edited this page Mar 24, 2019 · 9 revisions

Quite often I solve problem how to connect many pins from devices to bread-board. Finally I decided to use Amphenol cables as shown on picture below (from CH341A to LM75A project):

Wiring CH341A, CJMCU-75 and Logical Analyzer together

What you need

  • suitable PCB - breakout-board for Amphenol connector and pins compatible with bread-board
  • Amphenol cables and connectors

PCB for Breakout-board

I designed trivial PCB using my favorite tool Express PCB classic. Design picture is below:

Amphenol breakout-board

Design file is here: ExpressPCB design file

NOTE: Design file contains also some supplemental breakout-patterns:

  • 1x PLC44 socket for Xilinx XC9536XL CPLD
  • 2x SOIC 8-pin with 0.05" pitch

Feel free to replace them with any your design.

PCB Ordering notes:

  • it is easy (order and pay directly from ExpressPCB program)

  • WARNING! Ensure that your entered phone number is short as possible (I used country prefix and spaces which caused last digit to be missing on package label - source of troubles!). It seems that the limit is around 11 characters - after removal of + and spaces - so be careful. Probably omitting country prefix is the only way how to fit into limit (because our mobile number has 9 digits and country prefix at least 3 digits - total 12 characters).

  • used ExpressPCB - MiniBoard Standard

  • shipping price to Czech Republic is prohibitive (around 150 USD => 3 400,- CZK board + UPS shipping and add another 1 100,- CZK for 21% VAT and 300,- CZK Clearance fee (not toll fee) => total price around 4500,- CZK => around 200 USD).

    NOTE: There is no toll paid (for packages under 150 EUR only VAT is paid) which is this case, but the package must be proceed through clearance anyway).

Ordering Amphenol cables and connectors

All parts were ordered from tme.eu:

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