Many microchips these days are only available in a SMD (Surface Mount Device) packages. These chips have very tiny legs that are very close together making them super difficult to individually solder. The leg spacing and orientation also means that the chips can not be put in a breadboard for experimentation.
A breakout board is a basic printed circuit board PCB that has the surface mount chip soldered on and some or all of the pins connected to more easily accessible solder points or holes.
In addition the breakout board may include a few little passive components like resistors or capacitors to support the main microchip so you don't need to add them.
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Do you need to power a project with 12V and 5V from one power supply? The ATX power connector breakout board breaks out the standard 4-pin computer peripheral port when mated with an ATX connector for your 12V and 5V devices! Once you have chosen a power supply (whether it be an ATX power supply ... More Details...
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Odometers are extremely useful for cars they tell you how far you have gone wouldn't it be nice if you were able to have a device that does the same for electrical current? The LTC4150 SparkFun Coulomb Counter Breakout is here to be your odometer for current. More Details...
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The SparkFun ATECC508A Cryptographic Co-processor Breakout allows you to easily add strong authentication security to your IoT node, edge device, or embedded system. It includes two Qwiic ports for plug and play functionality. More Details...
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This is an evaluation board for the Silicon Laboratories Si4703 FM tuner chip. Beyond enabling you to tune in to FM radio stations the Si4703 is also capable of detecting and processing both Radio Data Service (RDS) and Radio Broadcast Data Service (RBDS) information. More Details...
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Introducing the SparkFun FT231X Breakout board complete with the full UART hardware handshake feature! The pin-out of this board matches the FTDI cable to work with official Arduino and cloned Arduino boards. It can also be used for general serial applications. More Details...
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The SparkFun LP55231 LED Driver Breakout is a self-contained solution for developing and deploying the nine-channel I2C LED controller. Remarkably simple the breakout is equipped primarily with just the LP55231 LED controller IC plus three RGB LEDs. More Details...
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The TLC5940 is a 16 channel PWM unit with 12 bit duty cycle control (0-4095) 6 bit current limit control (0-63) and a daisy chainable serial interface. This breakout board is a good way to take full advantage of this useful IC. More Details...
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There are a couple must-have boards that every engineer and hobbyist should have on their desk, and this PCA9306 dual, bidirectional voltage-level translator breakout is one of them! Because different parts sometimes use different voltage levels to communicate, voltage level translators can be th... More Details...
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The SparkFun Micro OLED Breakout Board breaks out a small monochrome blue-on-black OLED. It’s "micro" but it still packs a punch – the OLED display is crisp and you can fit a deceivingly large amount of graphics on there. More Details...
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This is a simple 5V Op Amp breakout board set up as a 2-stage amplifier with a gain of 100 (gain of 10 for each stage). The on-board trim pot sets the signal level between the stages not the feedback path. More Details...
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