"Kozlyk, Terry" wrote:

> Just curious....how does your contract manufacturer take to any traces under
> 0603 & 1206 resistors ??
>
> Ours complains because of the risk of tomb-stoning when any feature, such as
> silkscreen, vias, traces are under
> these descretes .....again..." in search of an ideal world ".....
>
> Regards
> TDK

We don't allow silkscreen or vias under discrete SMDs, but traces are not a problem. The
soldermask  adds only about 1mil to the height of the traces, compared to the height of
solderpaste of about 4mils.


     Volkmar