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Just a suggestion....For prototyping, I usually make a small pc board for all my surface mount chips which terminate to a standard dip socket pattern on the outer edges. This way, I only have to solder once and I can use the same chips over and over again in different design configurations.
Of course, for the final product, I make a board with the correct pattern.
Lots of little wires soldered to the pins of this type of chip is really asking for failure at some point.

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Yeah, I'm not going to wire an entire circuit like that, just little SMT to DIP adapter boards.
Before surface-mount was invented, National Semi. sold LM3914 and LM3915 modules, with a black "blob" for the tiny IC and very small LEDs welded on the surface with tiny wires. The LEDs were covered with a 10-bar diffuser. I still have some. Those old LEDs are pretty dim so I might drill them out and replace them with modern high-brightness ones.

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Ante,
Seagram's? Never in the early morning when I do my wiring.

Many new ICs are surface-mount only, in new smaller packages.

How do you hand-wire ICs in "bump" packages? They have little connection bumps all over the bottom, not just around the outside.
I guess that you could connect to them upside down.
Also, how can a manufacturer IR-reflow-solder those tiny thingys.

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