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[Lorenzo Marcantonio <l.marcantonio@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Sat, Sep 20, 2014 at 11:58:48AM -0400, Carl Poirier wrote:
> Hi folks,
> 
> We have some great contributions here prepared by Michal Stec. He's
> generating SMD packages appropriate for the convention, however we were
> unsure how to make the silkscreen for QFN packages. If it's done the same
> as TQFP, it yields, for the pin one indication, a bar so short it's going
> to be difficult to see. We thus tried to find something else. Please have a
> look at the two screenshots below. The first one has a more visible mark,
> but I'm unsure if there are QFN packages with pins in the reverse order, in
> which case we can't tell from the silkscreen. Any comments? I have attached
> the file.

QFN (and 'internal pin' components, in general) have the pin
1 indication done *interrupting* the outer silk outline near the pin
site

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Lorenzo Marcantonio
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