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waclawek.jan
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May 2, 2016
Question

Mysterious pads on Nucleo64 and Nucleo144

  • May 2, 2016
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Posted on May 02, 2016 at 15:12

A Nucleo144 landed on my desk. As with every new board, there has been a stare-and-criticize session, and somebody noticed four pads at the four corners of the chip, at a 45 deg. angle. They are roughly of 0805 size and full of solder.

I have looked at the Nucleo64 UM and they are there, too. Not on the Nucleo32.

Anybody knows the purpose of these?

Thanks,

Jan Waclawek
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    waclawek.jan
    Super User
    May 2, 2016
    Posted on May 02, 2016 at 15:54

    Mystery solved :)

    These pads are to anchor a test socket

    http://chiptron.petus.cz/photogallery.php?photo_id=34

    socket nr is IC149-064 / IC149-144.

    JW