Thin Plastic Quad Flat Package
Packaging standard similar to LCC, but thinner than QFP. TQFP chip terminals are soldered directly on the printed circuit board using a special technique called SMT, thus TQFP chips don’t use sockets to be installed on printed circuit boards.
Figure 1: TQFP packaging.
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