What is the intended use? If you want to use those printed capacitors for high frequency applications mind the transmission line behaviour of those structures. Michael Michael Nagel - Hardware Engineer FORCE COMPUTERS GmbH A Solectron Subsidary Prof.- Messerschmitt-Strasse 1 D-85579 Neubiberg/Muenchen - Germany Tel: +49-89-60814-0 Fax: +49-89-60977-93 EMAIL ADDRESS: [log in to unmask] WWW: http://www.forcecomputers.com At 10:05 AM 2/11/99 -0600, Karl J. Bates wrote: >Jimmy, > I think this is what you are looking for. > > Karl > >http://www.automata.com/newsroom_new/papers/zycon/toc.htm That's a useful document, but it is not about "printed capacitance," per se, but about the usage of distributed plane capacitance to supplement or replace discrete bypass capacitors.... [log in to unmask] Abdulrahman Lomax P.O. Box 690 El Verano, CA 95433 ----- End Included Message ----- ################################################################ DesignerCouncil E-Mail Forum provided as a free service by IPC using LISTSERV 1.8c ################################################################ To subscribe/unsubscribe, send a message to [log in to unmask] with following text in the body: To subscribe: SUBSCRIBE DesignerCouncil <your full name> To unsubscribe: SIGNOFF DesignerCouncil ################################################################ Please visit IPC's web site (http://www.ipc.org) "On-Line Services" section for additional information. For technical support contact Hugo Scaramuzza at [log in to unmask] or 847-509-9700 ext.312 ################################################################