We're trying to determine how many decoupling capacitors are needed for = our boards. I hear conflicting stories about using the power planes as decoupling vs. using lots of different values of capacitors to give a = spread of low impedances presented to the pins or the ICs'. Does anyone have any good advise (experimental/empirical or just plain knowledge) on how I should go about designing our layouts with = decoupling in mind ? Any golden rules ? BTW, I do not have buried vias in my arsenal of Engineering tricks. = However I can go down to 0402 footprints if needed. TIA, Gareth ------------------------------------------------------------------ To unsubscribe from si-list: si-list-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx with 'unsubscribe' in the Subject field or to administer your membership from a web page, go to: //www.freelists.org/webpage/si-list For help: si-list-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx with 'help' in the Subject field List FAQ wiki page is located at: http://si-list.org/wiki/wiki.pl?Si-List_FAQ List technical documents are available at: http://www.si-list.org List archives are viewable at: //www.freelists.org/archives/si-list or at our remote archives: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/si-list/messages Old (prior to June 6, 2001) list archives are viewable at: http://www.qsl.net/wb6tpu