Limitations of Breadboard

We love breadboards, they make prototyping easy, but they have their limitations. The way breadboards are built imposes a low maximum frequency to the design, typically  less then 50 MHz.  This is due to the high parasitic inductance and capacitance on solder-less breadboards.

For designs that work at low frequencies, breadboards are the ideal tool for fast prototyping. For any design above a few MHz they become too noisy, so custom PCBs, or development boards are required.