Connectors & form factors

SMD / SMT

Surface Mount Device / Technology — components with no leads, soldered to pads on top of the board.

How it looks

Real image: CORE3588, rendered by KiCad from our board file

CORE3588 top side, near the status lights.

1R58, a surface-mount resistor: it sits on two pads on the surface, nothing goes through the board.
2D6, the red recording light, also surface-mount.

Real image: CORE3588, rendered by KiCad from our board file (angled 3D view)

Tilted KiCad 3D render of CORE3588.

Nearly everything on CORE3588 is SMD (1,046 pads). The alternative is through-hole. Package sizes like 0603 / 0402 / 0201, SOT-23, QFN and BGA are all SMD.