>
>
> Now I'm in a grad program with artists and engineers working together
> and I'm sure everyone is sick of hearing me preach about bypass caps.


Did you ever run into this "bypass solution"?

VCC----------------------------------------------------------------------
        Chip       Chip           Chip         Chip
GND----------------------------------------------------------------------
        cap        cap             cap           cap
VCC----------------------------------------------------------------------
        Chip       Chip            Chip        Chip

(and so on.)

The caps are connected between the rails, but they are connecting VCC on one
row of chips to ground on the OTHER row.   I've not actually had a board
like this in my hands to measure recently, but I suspect this might be worse
than NO bypasses.

I remember seeing a lot of boards laid out this way back in the 70's and
80's though.
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