Mike, Q-Cap made those devices and they worked very well. They also
made bus strips and custom devices. It's been awhile. I have'nt followed
this thread very closely but now days, as speed increases, there is a
trend to use multiple low-ESR caps (ie: 10 0.01uf caps to make 1 0.1uf).
There was a good discussion of this in the comp.arch.fpga news group.

   - Tom

At 09:09 AM 1/18/99 -0000, Michael Rigby-Jones wrote:
>> 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