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18 DESIGN007 MAGAZINE I AUGUST 2018 Feature by Tom Hausherr PCB LIBRARIES Today, a wealth of PCB components and packages are available to the PCB designer and design engineer. Any senior designers who were laying out boards in the 1970s can remem- Standard PCB Component Families, Part 1 ber when this was certainly not the case. However, it can be difficult to wrap your head around the sheer number of components and packages on the market today. I hope this compendium of standard component fami- lies provides a handy resource for your next design. Standard Surface Mount Component Families Figure 1: Non-polarized rectangular end-cap chip components.