Editing Breadboard (section)

=== Advanced designs ===

In a more robust variant, one or more breadboard strips are mounted on a sheet of metal. Typically, that backing sheet also holds a number of [[binding post]]s. These posts provide a clean way to connect an external power supply. This type of breadboard may be slightly easier to handle.

Some manufacturers provide high-end versions of solderless breadboards. These are typically high-quality breadboard modules mounted on a flat casing. The casing contains additional equipment for breadboarding, such as a [[power supply]], one or more [[signal generator]]s, [[serial interface]]s, LED display or LCD modules, and [[logic probe]]s.<ref>[http://pundit.pratt.duke.edu/wiki/PBB_272 Powered breadboard] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20111009012908/http://pundit.pratt.duke.edu/wiki/PBB_272 |date=2011-10-09 }}</ref>

For high-frequency development, a metal breadboard affords a desirable solderable ground plane, often an unetched piece of printed circuit board; integrated circuits are sometimes stuck upside down to the breadboard and soldered to directly, a technique sometimes called "[[Point-to-point construction#"Dead bug" construction|dead bug]]" construction because of its appearance. Examples of dead bug with ground plane construction are illustrated in a Linear Technologies application note.<ref>{{cite web |author=Linear Technology |author-link=Linear Technology |date=August 1991 |title=Application Note 47: High Speed Amplifier Techniques |url=http://www.linear.com/docs/4138 |format=pdf |access-date=2016-02-14}} Dead-bug breadboards with ground plane, and other prototyping techniques, illustrated in Figures F1 to F24, from p. AN47-98. There is information on breadboarding on pp. AN47-26 to AN47-29.</ref>