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Update SC-74 to use more permissive JEITA values

John Beard requested to merge johnbeard/kicad-footprint-generator:sc74 into master

SC-74 is a JEITA standard package: https://www.jeita.or.jp/japanese/standard/book/ED-7500B/#target/page_no=39

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As is often true, manufacturers use a stricter set of tolerances for their own parts (and SC-74 is double-confusing because it can go by other names like SOT-457 and SOT-23-6)

The values of the SC-74 in the generator are taken from this NXP datasheet: https://www.nxp.com/docs/en/package-information/SOT457.pdf (which calls it SOT-457):

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This produces a footprint with slightly smaller pads. Below, red is NXP (current) and blue is the JEITA values (this MR):

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The reason I think this is important is other SC_74-ish parts, like the Diodes Inc. SOT-23-6 (https://www.diodes.com/assets/Datasheets/MMDTA06.pdf) have a different set of dimensions and tolerances, which are still in-spec per JEITA SC-74, but not with the NXP part:

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Where we see that the NXP (current, red) footprint has too-narrow pads, but the Diodes footprint has shorter heels:

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Which means the current SC-74 footprint isn't quite suitable for the MMDTA06 part ( kicad-symbols!3913 (merged)).

And here we see the Diodes footprint (red) strictly fit within the JEITA footprint (blue, this MR):

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There are only two symbols using the current footprint:

  • NCR401U (NXP part)
  • BCR430UW6 (a Diodes part - so it actually doesn't fit the current NXP land pattern)

And the PMN48XP has SC-74 in the description, but uses a non-generated TSOP-6 which doesn't quite match the datasheet land pattern either.


Edited by John Beard

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