Bus Pirate 5 SOIC / SOP8 SPI Flash Adapter

This accessory for the Bus Pirate 5 makes it trivial to program bare flash memory chips without clips or soldering. SOP8 150mil and 208mil are the most common and inexpensive flash packages at the moment. After looking at a number of sockets, the folks behind the Bus Pirate 5 decided these bad boys, favorites of the mobile phone repair market, were the way to go. Easy to insert and remove a chip, but a bit bulky with delicate pins. The cost is in the pins, 16 pins cost double that of an 8 pins socket.

Inserting a chip:

• Press down gently on the top of the socket. The spring fingers will retract.
• Place or drop the chip into the socket with the chip pin 1 marker (dot, stripe, etc) aligned with the socket pin 1 marker.
• Release the socket; the spring fingers will grip the chip.

Removing a chip:

• Press down gently on the top of the socket. The spring fingers will retract.
• Gently lift the chip out of the socket with tweezers or turn the socket over and let the chip fall into your hand.
• Release the socket; the spring fingers will close.