PLCC Sockets (Plastic Lead Chip Carrier) are designed to carry JEDEC Type A Chips on 1,27mm centrelines. Products are available in Surface mount and Through Mount configuarions. The low-profile design of PLCC sockets minimizes overall product height.

Integrated Circuits are usually called ICs or chips. They are complex circuits which have been etched onto tiny chips of semiconductor (silicon). The chip is packaged in a plastic holder with pins spaced on a 0.1" (2.54mm) grid which will fit the holes on stripboard and breadboards. Very fine wires inside the package link the chip to the pins.