SMT Magazine did a recent, mediocre article on embedded passives. It would be nice if all our sloppy-tolerance resistors were screened on the bottom of the board. Is anybody doing this? Caps would be even better, but screened caps are too wimpy to be bypasses.
John
Eh? You don't want the potential problems. Stay with the SMT resistors, IMHO. You're not manufacturing 75-cent TV remotes.
Grumble. I suppose.
John
But imagine what that would do to the rogue entrepreneur who wants to reverse-engineer one of your VME designs if you had invisible resistors under the mask. It'll drive him up the wall.
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