but modeling it on a breadboard and looking for a DIP equivalent rather than using one of the converters. How would I go about finding an equivalent/ any suggestions?
DIP packages are generally obsolete for new designs as everything is now built with surface-mount devices, so the only devices that are still available in DIP are older devices designed before surface-mount became common.
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