> At 08:35 AM 1/17/99 -0500, ryan pogge wrote:
> >you can buy sockets for your chips that have decoupling caps built in.
>
> Those are not nearly as nice as they look at first glance. Look at the
> long
> leads on the cap!
>
The last place I worked used some very strange decoupling caps.  They were
fitted underneath the IC, without using a socket.  They were very thin with
the same outline as the IC and thin pins that could be pushed through the
same holes as the IC.  This got around the problem of long leads with the
socket type decouplers.

Regards

Mike Rigby-Jones
mrjones@nortelnetworks.com