Dummy IC chips? I need to easily break out connections from a pcb mounted socket.

[Rylan]

Does anyone know if there is a good way of breaking out a 32 pin PCB mounted IC socket into couple of ribbon cables?

Most people solder connections to the legs of the socket on the reverse side of the board, but there has to be a better way...

I could drill out the center of an eprom and solder wires to the legs, but that still seems ridiculous and prone to perhaps shorting some of the contacts with the drill bit..

There must be some blindingly easy way of doing this that I am just not aware of?

[oldgearguy]

Look for IDC socket headers - basically a flat, crimp on connector that fits into an IC socket and crimps onto a flat ribbon cable.

[Rylan]

Ah yes thanks, someone on another forum suggested ic headers, found this which might work ******//www.precicontact.ch/dww%20sww%20scket.htm

[engtech]

Sparkfun has a lot of breakout pcbs too.